Exactly which fight should we consider as Pacquiao's "finest hour?"

[Larry the boss]

Cotto fight imo..

[FeFist]

Legacy wise, his first win over Barrera. Career wise, his win over De La Hoya; it turned him into a star.

[Tay Roc]

Marquez 4. Legend losing to a greater legend.

[nubianpiye]

Has to be the Cotto win as Cotto beats everyone else on his resume P4P.

[baya]

Cotto.

As much as I love watching Manny fight, I just can't believe he wasn't majorly enhanced at that stage.

lol @ bolded

[Kris Silver]

Cotto as it stands. It has to be the one with the least or hardly any, caveats to it.

He was a decent size, a sound boxer, strong, hard hitting, has shown he's tactically astute and gave Mayweather one hell of a fight.

Pacquiao absolutely dominated him.

[Larry the boss]

What would ya'll say are his top 5 wins??

[J.Dempsey]

Although cotto was a great win, cotto didn't have a great trainer, may have been drained and wasn't the same from margarito (although he is back on top now)

I actually like his ledwaba fight (especially after reading his biography), coming in at two weeks notice, to a foreign country and from a poverty stricken country and background. That was his big break and an opportunity to really make it...To me, that was pacquiao's finest hour...

[El-blanco]

Barrera, totally shocked by that fight. Cotto is second but not as unexpected because cotto had suffered a career changing beating.

[baya]

for me it was barrera. you don't do that to barrera. he just HANDLED barrera something nasty.

who did pac handle worse, cotto or barrera?