Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao - One of The Greatest

[King Arthur]

"He was a prohibitive underdog going into the De La Hoya fight yet scored a spectacular knockout."

Rosenthal must of been watching a different fight to the rest of us I saw Oscar quit in his corner no knockout? Or even a knockdown?

[Ecosse1]

Yes, at the lower weights Manny was at his best. There is no reason to suspect anything before he moved up to fight Diaz. Same is true with Bonds, there was no reason to suspect him until he put on more weight.

Also, Pac's ko and power disappeared immediately after accusations were raised, and Pac came up with numerous different excuses about why he wouldn't take ped tests. Maybe the mystery drinks stopped when the accusations began. Regardless of when the mystery drinks stopped, we do know, that his best years, and best fights was cut short when Floyd asked for ped testing. He went from ko'ing ODLH, Hatton, and Cotto, to not ko'ing anyone. Ever again. Not even Rios. Not even Algieri.

For the record, I believe every good pro boxer from the early 90's to they started real testing about 2010-2012 was juicing. Including Floyd.

Pac just sticks out, has he ko'd top opponents after moving up numerous divisions in weight. Then has soon as the accusations began, the ko's stopped.

The Rios and Algieri fights were after the JMM Ko. I always felt that ko put the fear in Manny going for the all in ko the same. He did absolute dominate both, but just didn't have the killer instinct that was there for Cotto and Oscar. Remember he didn't ko either, they were both stopped.

I'm a huge fan of Manny, but the su****ions of PEDs with him is rightfully there, but I agree that if he was he wasn't the only one. It's crazy how lax the testing is in boxing considering how dangerous the sport can be

[Bronx2245]

I don't have a problem with calling Pacquiao "one of" the greatest, so long as we recognize that Floyd was, without question, the better fighter!

http://www.thesweetscience.com/feature-articles/22132-the-50-greatest-welterweights-of-all-time-part-five-10-1

[pasawayako]

Pac is one of the greatest. The one and only 8 division champion and 5 division lineal champ a feat that is impossible to be achieve again by any boxer.

[pasawayako]

Pac is a lightweight dominating a welterweight division.

[Thraxox]

I don't have a problem with calling Pacquiao "one of" the greatest, so long as we recognize that Floyd was, without question, the better fighter!

http://www.thesweetscience.com/featu...part-five-10-1

[Elroy The Great]

You forgot two prime ATGs in Barrera and Marquez and a prime HOF in Bradley which Mayweather never had in his career

his last 16 fights is all im talking about. if you want to go back BEFORE his ww days......

[Elroy The Great]

"He was a prohibitive underdog going into the De La Hoya fight yet scored a spectacular knockout."

Rosenthal must of been watching a different fight to the rest of us I saw Oscar quit in his corner no knockout? Or even a knockdown?

it was pac vs shot shell of hoya.

[WesternChamp]

manny is the only fighter who doesnt have a prime lol. when he was beasting everyone up in his younger days, he was on peds.
when he stopped fcvking fools up, he's off the peds . lol

cant even make this shiiet up. mofos acting like his youth has no bearing on why he was stopping guys when he was coming up and now that he's older, its harder to do that, but somehow it's all because he was on peds and now he's not.

[WesternChamp]

I don't have a problem with calling Pacquiao "one of" the greatest, so long as we recognize that Floyd was, without question, the better fighter!

http://www.thesweetscience.com/featu...part-five-10-1

salty salty. this is a manny thread, go make a floyd is the greatest of all time thread if you feel offended.