Did Pacquiao beat a prime Barrera?

[IronDanHamza]

Comfortably? That was a straight war. The only person to beat pac comfortably was floyd

Nah, Morales clearly won.

Action packed fight but it wasn't an either way fight.

[TBear]

Possible Barrera was past his prime but he was coming off arguably his best run as a pro with consecutive wins over Hamed, Sanchez, Morales, Tapia and Kelly, respectively

[b00g13man]

No, but it was still a fantastic win.

[NSX-R]

Even if you were to somehow wrongly believe that Barrera wasn't in his prime, well, neither was Pacquiao. I saw the fight live on TV back in 2003. Barrera was the clear favourite. Stop making excuses for Barrera or diminishing Pacquiao's win.

[twrx]

his 2 fights with morales took alot out of barrera and was slighty past it but was a great win for Pac-Man

[Willy Wanker]

Barrera was still prime, a little war torn, but still at or near his best.

He had some success after the Pac fight, so you know he wasn't done yet.

[Mr. Punch-Out!!]

I say he was still in his prime.

If not, then he had to be slightly passed it but not enough to be considered "washed up" or anything.

Comfortably? That was a straight war. The only person to beat pac comfortably was floyd

Floyd didn't even beat Pacquiao.

[Chrismart]

I'd say he was. That was a very good version of MAB.

[therealpugilist]

People on this site tried to make it seem like Barrera was prime to pump up Manny Pacquaio's resume. No need for that, Manny has a lot of depth and is an all time great. Barrera was a great fighter, Hall of famer in his own right but never was say on the level of a willie pep, sandy saddler, flash elorde, Salvador Sanchez, Wilfredo Gomez.

Barrera was 29 and had 60 fights....turned pro at a young age and had some wars before the manny fight. Changed his style to preserve himself, and career.

He was definitely still an elite fighter and utilized his boxing skills more. Barrera was in his prime in the late 90s...He could fight at a faster pace and was more willing to give and take. Had better stamina

[therealpugilist]

Possible Barrera was past his prime but he was coming off arguably his best run as a pro with consecutive wins over Hamed, Sanchez, Morales, Tapia and Kelly, respectively

Tapia was no featherweight and got a shoddy decision over Medina for the ibf title...Tapia was past prime and out of his weight class

Kelly was also clearly past it....he beat the crap out of sanchez who was a good fighter....saw that live, I was like Daaaaaaamn