Why does it seem like Pacquiao became irrelevant overnight?

[PrBoxing88]

I got Manny in a higher rank than Maywather... Yup i think Pac would of beat Maywather in his prime.

[Dosumpthin]

I think pac is still the man to beat. everybody wants a piece of pac.

I think Horn has all the remaining pieces of what was left of Mannys career after Mayweather.

[djtmal]

Threads made on him get almost no replies,news on him doesnt really get responded to at all..It is like he went from being one of the faces of boxing to yesterdays trash

Meanwhile, back at Tmt headquarters, the Floyd Boys are trying on their mma crotch tights, in preparation for Floyd's latest foray into big money attention whoring

[chrisJS]

i like pac...i really do....but it was obvious he was a "hope" for racists....once the idea of him beating floyd was dashed there was very little interest....

thats why you see alot of these same guys excuse golovkins duck of ward at 168....as soon as he would have lost that they would have lost all interest and would have been unable to perpetuate the hype

these fanboys build them as gods forgetting they are human

That's very ignorant to say. People liked Pacquaio because he had an entertaining style and he took on all comers it wasn't just because he was white. He was actually and still is Asian and he has plenty of Asian, white and Hispanic fans. One could argue the Mayweather fans were racist if your pulling that card.

There was little interest after Floyd for a few reasons.

The fight was a dud (Mayweathers numbers were very low for his usual for Berto and the McGregor fight was a farce for casuals and UFC fans) and it's one that casuals stuck around for and after that they cooled their interest in Boxing somewhat.


He was way beyond his best days (let's face it he was a shell of his former self after Marquez iced him) and his fights had became boring.

It's common in Boxing that a star phases out. Especially after the huge fight the public wanted has finished and it was so bad. Even had he won that fight he wouldn't have done much better on PPV afterwards.

Also you don't like Pac. Stop. You don't like any fighter that's not from America. You are a pro America and f anybody else type fan.

[Boksfan]

Pacman got old, nothing more to it.

[Johnston]

i like pac...i really do....but it was obvious he was a "hope" for racists....once the idea of him beating floyd was dashed there was very little interest....

thats why you see alot of these same guys excuse golovkins duck of ward at 168....as soon as he would have lost that they would have lost all interest and would have been unable to perpetuate the hype

these fanboys build them as gods forgetting they are human

You seriously live in a distorted world and every time you post it shows

[Combat Talk Radio]

Why does it seem like Pacquiao became irrelevant overnight?

I like the fighters that take care of business in the ring. Period.

What I won't do is overlook when a fighter simply doesn't show up regardless of whether I like them or not.

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But then you take Manny, once a guy who made Ricky Hatton eat his words and put on quality fights with excellent pivoting and blistering speed. Then the drug testing started.

• Went the distance with Brandon Rios - a lightweight who was barely throwing.
• Went the distance with Chris Algieri - a lightweight who was barely throwing.
• Lost to Bradley who was a HUGE underdog despite being a quality fighter.
• Got dropped, then slept by Marquez.
• Didn't bother half trying against Floyd and his "if he stand still I could hit him doe!" excuse afterwards.
• Damn near lost the second Bradley fight.
• Lost against Jeff Horn, another HUGE underdog. Easily twice the underdog Bradley was.

Meanwhile, shoulder excuses, needle excuses, urine excuses, location excuses, judge excuses, ref excuses, salt water excuses, etc etc etc. All that BS made me dislike him.


All of the people who keep defending his excuses made me hate him even more.

All of the people who defend his ducking of Jeff Horn when Horn - THE WINNER - called Manny out for a rematch to give him a chance to prove it was a fluke, made me hate him even more.

All of the people who say Manny's just shot - who were the same people before the fight screaming that Manny would finally get his easy knockout on Horn and then switched stance after he got bullied - made me hate him even more.

And I'm not alone in my stance.

[LockardTheGOAT]

Most of his hype for years was based around being the guy that could bring down Floyd and he ended up failing spectacularly at that.

[Xi_]

Larry got Poochiao's fans ITT pressed as ****. May 2nd, 2015 is your answer. Floyd utterly embarrassed him, schooled him and turned him into an espn fighter. After the fight he made a fool outta himself claiming victory and max kellerman shut that **** down .....then when he realized people weren't falling for his bull**** he made up a fake "injury" that was "healed" in salt water. What damn disgrace of a human.

[Johnwoo8686]

It's not only Pac. Who talks about Floyd, Roy, Hopkins, Tyson, Lewis? Their eras are behind us. There's no reason to say much about them. Maybe 20 years or more from now some new generation would be mesmerized by them.

Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson's highlight reels are STILL more popular than any current fighter. Highlight reels of Tyson that were uploaded a few months ago to youtube garner millions of views even despite the fact that Tyson has been retired nearly 13 years.

People still speculate if Floyd will return to boxing or go into the cage. I'll agree with you about the rest.