Better resume Pacquiao or Sugar Ray Leonard

[Richard Wadd]

leonard's resume is better at the top

pacquiao's is deeper as he fought a lot more times, and most of them were against pretty good fighters. his era is weaker though.

[DARKSEID]

Leonard beat Hearns and Duran, both legends in their own right, as well as wilfred benitez.

Pacquiao beat Barrera and Morales, who were also legends.

[Holywarrior]

Boxing history has always favored heavier weight divisions. Welterweight seems to be the starting point to be even considered great.

With that said...Hagler, Hearns, and Duran in my opinion equals out to the troika of Marquez, Morales, and Barrera.

Since Pac's career was more than just his Featherweight campaign, clearly he has the better resume than SRL.

lol.

[BennyST]

SRL top 2 wins are probably better than anything on Pac resumes, ie Duran, Hagler possibly, maybe even Benitez/hearns.

But Pac beat Barrera twice, Morales twice, JMM x3 and thats 7 wins alone. Then you have hatton, Cotto, DLH, SSM...thats over 11 very big names in Pacs higher weights.
Then you add the names that were probably very good but not too famous in the very lower weights.

It depends how you judge things. You can say Turpin has a better resume than Pac as he beat SRR, but it dont work like that.

That usually just means you couldn't beat them the first time, and out of those fights, Pac got beaten twice, drew once and knocked out cold.

Leonard lost one close decision against a prime, top ten ATG in Duran.

Anyway, Pac beat Marquez twice.

Now, you're always bringing your dumb ass into threads like these with moronic arguments. Turpin beat Robinson once, then got stopped in the rematch. Apart from Robinson, he did nothing else that's relevant to this conversation.

Leonard beat prime 72-1 Duran, a top ten ATG and arguably the greatest ever at 135.
Leonard beat prime 32-0 Hearns, a top 20/30 ATG and arguably the greatest ever at 154 and a top ten great at 147.
Leonard beat a prime 38-0 Benitez, a top 40/50 ATG.
Leonard beat a 62-2 Hagler, who hadn't lost a fight in over a decade and is generally considered among the top 3 greatest at 160 and a top 20/30 ATG.

Doesn't matter how many times Pac had to rematch guys that he couldn't beat the first time, it doesn't come close to that. They were all at, or still very near, their primes and all are greater fighters than the bunch Pac beat, lost to, and got knocked out by.

The first Barrera fight was a great win, and the Marquez fights, if you consider any of them to really be proper wins, are also great, barring the third which was just a straight up clear loss for Pac.

The Morales fights? Morales was coming off a series of losses, and the most embarrassing, one sided loss of his career going in against Pac after beating him. Apart from the Pac fight, Morales lost about 5 or 6 fights in a row and was going into the second Pac fight with only one win years and he would go on to lose every fight after that for years too. He was done.

[IronDanHamza]

Leonard, obviously.

Greater by a wide margin in every aspect.