Did People forget about the first half of Pac's career?

[Zaryu]

Yes, people forget, sometimes on purpose, how much Pacquiao actually accomplished before establishing himself as a ww. They feel smart criticizing him and putting him, down, even though most are straight up idiots.

[Canelo and GGG]

Boxing is great sport ,but have worst fans from All sports ,whinening *****est who dont respect fighters and are never happy ,i understand why fighters dont give a **** and just take low risk.Like Floyd said fans wont do **** for you ,they will forgot you the day you retire .

[Combat Talk Radio]

Lost to Floyd = meaningless career

There's something to this.

Look at Hamed. All people know or talk about is him getting schooled by Barrera.

Most casuals don't even know or remember that he had one more fight after that. They think Barrera retired him - and effectively he did.

Manny's true decline started when all of a sudden he was no longer knocking out larger fighters; lost to Tim Bradley, got knocked out by Marquez, gift decision twice against Marquez, went the distance with Rios, Algieri, Clottey, and Bradley three times. All of a sudden he's just a plain, every day fighter. And this is the guy who once stopped a prime Cotto. It didn't make sense.

It made the loss to TBE that much worse because frankly, it looked to me like Manny simply didn't show up and didn't half try.