Rewatching Pacquiao's fights down the years

[madsweeney]

And who the **** is PBM?

Pretty sure he means pretty boy mayweather...but he's not very smart so he may think PBM are Floyd Mayweather Jr's initials

[Willy Wanker]

Pretty sure he means pretty boy mayweather...but he's not very smart so he may think PBM are Floyd Mayweather Jr's initials

Yeah I know.

I was just messing with him, any real Floyd fan or boxing fan in general knows it's PBF.

[madsweeney]

Yeah I know.

I was just messing with him, any real Floyd fan or boxing fan in general knows it's PBF.

Been drinking to much PBR IMO

[Gigantes]

I enjoyed making my way through some of his back catalogue. His relentless performance against Barrera, his closely fought battles against Marquez, his beating of Hatton. My favourite was probably his Cotto fight, although i really like his performance against Margarito.

He was/is a really special fighter. It was interesting watching him start as a talented, wild, strong puncher and progressing into a world class fighter as his career went along.

I didn't touch on them in the thread, but i rewatched Pacquiao's losses to Morlaes and Marquez also. Both great fights.
I really enjoyed the Morales trilogy. Rewatching it reminded me of how much i enjoyed Morales's style and career.

It was fun to catch up on some fights i hadn't seen in a while though. It pretty time consuming, but i might rewatch a chunk of De La Hoya's or Leonard's fights next.

makes me wonder what would of happened if he fought morales right after MAB.

i wonder if morales would've been as ready if he never had the marquez fight to go off of.

I also wonder about if Cortez stopped the fight in the first round against Marquez, if there would've even been a rematch. Pretty crazy

[Gigantes]

Can't get enough of the Cotto fight.

Agreed. But the fight with DLH too, I don't care what folks want to say about DLH but Manny was great in that fight

[Dr Rumack]

The one thing Roach changed that was a detriment was Pac's body attack. Pacquiao was an absolutely relentless body puncher in some of his early fights. He let too much of that go throughout the years.

I saw someone on NSB say Roach didn't change anything about Pacquiao. If I hadn't noticed who had said it and known to not bother, I would have gone on an unnecessary tirade about it.

Definitely true about the body punching. Mainly due to the growing hype around him I'd say, but maybe his very short reach for a welterweight had something to do with it too.

Someone posted this on reddit a couple of weeks ago. Shows how crazy it was for Pacquiao to be a force at welterweight in the first place.

[Dr Rumack]

Best fight of his whole career was the second JMM fight for me. An all time classic. The Cotto fight was superb for 6 rounds too, as good as you would ever see. But Manny was in control for the entire second half of the fight.

[IronDanHamza]

This was an absolutely awesome fight. Seeing Pac in full flow against a beast like Margo was insane, I was waiting and waiting for Margo to do something, and when he starting blasting Pac with body shots against the ropes I thought it was over. Ref should have stopped in in the 10th or 11th.

Watching Pac trying to force the stoppage here was one of the craziest things ive seen in a boxing ring.

Force the stoppage how? He clearly took his foot off the gass in the last few rounds and let Margarito live.

If that's one of the craziest things you've ever seen then you need to watch more.

Go and watch Mosley actually force a stoppage against a way better version of Margarito.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Force the stoppage how? He clearly took his foot off the gass in the last few rounds and let Margarito live.

If that's one of the craziest things you've ever seen then you need to watch more.

Go and watch Mosley actually force a stoppage against a way better version of Margarito.

was it really a better version of Margarito, Dan?

his world just unraveled in the dressing room after they found plaster...plus they had been using an inaccurate scale so he actually had to drain himself more than he had to

[IronDanHamza]

was it really a better version of Margarito, Dan?

his world just unraveled in the dressing room after they found plaster...plus they had been using an inaccurate scale so he actually had to drain himself more than he had to

Any Margarito is better than the version Pacquaio fought.

Well, except the one Cotto fought.