Who's better: Spence or Manny Pacquiao in his Prime?

[Twako]

spence defense is very questionable, leaves himself way too open.
i see manny's straight left batters him all night.
TKO9.

[True-Boxing-Fan]

Spence is the new king at 147, but how would a fight between him and the Manny Pacquiao from 10 years ago have gone?



VS

2008 version of Manny Pacquiao




How do you think the fight goes?




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Well since picked these two guys for a fantasy match. In all honesty the winner will be decided by who’s steroids work better.

Are the roids Manny took ten years ago better than the roids Spence takes today?

[BigZ44]

Well, Spence still hasn't reached his prime, still up and coming, but he did get hit a lot by Peterson. I think Pacquiao wins of 08 wins a pretty clear decision over Spence

[pasawayako]

Current version pac vs prime spence with a 10-15lbs weight advantage is a 50-50 fight.

[future hendrixx]

Boxers from the past always beat boxers of today - this is an indisputable fact.

Boxers from years gone by were better in every way and if you disagree then YDKSAB.

I agree. and if a boxer has nothing but black and white footage then he is the GOAT. not for debate. better yet, no footage at all makes him a god. boxers that fight in high definition are all bums.

[future hendrixx]

spence gets swiss cheesed by pacs laser left hands. he comes forward with the peek a boo. pac would dice his ass up with 7-8 punch combos spence wont know what to counter.

I would've loved to see pac vs joan guzman in 2007 doe. I remember back then I said guzman woulda been a nightmare matchup for pac but his only weakness was no power. also pac vs zahir raheem needed to happen after raheem beat the snot out of erik morales. two doable fights that never happened smh.

[Mike D]

Seriously though, the fact that we're even debating this is comical.

Spence beats a guy who's best career win was Shawn Porter (nothing against Shawn, I actually love the kid, love his heart and motor but he's a limited fighter), and then TKO's a mid 30's Lamont Peterson who can no longer even pull the trigger and all of a sudden it's logical to compare him to a peak Manny Pacquiao

[suffolkbull3]

Spence would absolutely demo any version of pacman if they fought at the ww limit.. its funny the double standards in this forum.. spence demod the BEST ww in the division in kell brook.. brook legit looked like a fkn light heavyweight in that fight.. as big as spence is brook was much bigger and appeared stronger than spence.. yet spence got him out of there easy. u guys keep mentioning thurman, porter but yet brook beat porter here in the usa!! thurnan had to go the distance with bundu and yet errol nearly decapitated bundus head off.. he was out cold! like i said, spence already finished the best ww at the time.

pac is just wayy too small and his punches would have no effect on spence. spence tko over pacman round 11.

ps... im very biased lol

i think a better question would be, who wins between prime pacman and bud crawford.. that would be a sick matchup

[Floyd is TBE]

The Catchweight King would need to drag Spence down to light-welter before he would even think about accepting that fight. Spence is much too big and strong for little PacMan.

[chrisJS]

Seriously though, the fact that we're even debating this is comical.

Spence beats a guy who's best career win was Shawn Porter (nothing against Shawn, I actually love the kid, love his heart and motor but he's a limited fighter), and then TKO's a mid 30's Lamont Peterson who can no longer even pull the trigger and all of a sudden it's logical to compare him to a peak Manny Pacquiao

Yeah, Spence isn't in Pacquaio's level and will never reach that level. He's a fine fighter and all but if he ends up half as good as Pacquaio he's had a great career.