Is Pacquiao this generation’s Roberto Duran?

[GrandpaBernard]

Duran loss all his big fights, except for his first fight with SRL,and he was fighting debutants and dudes with less than 5 fights into his 50+ fights

but Duran managed to beat his version of Floyd

[LeOoze]

They are similar in the sense that they are sore losers and ultimately lost the wars with their biggest rivals

[jmrf4435]

Pacman is better all around than Duran

[hugh grant]

Pac s greater than duran. Duran will be first to admit that

[LeOoze]

Pacman is better all around than Duran

Duran’s win over SRL ****s on ANY Pac win. Duran’s win over Barkley is better than most Pac wins too.

[Pac=Duran]

What do you guys think?
Stylistically and skill wise they’re both different but they share a similar career path. Pac was a wild, offensive beast in his younger years, like Duran. Both heavily improved on their skills and defense to become more well rounded. Both also moved up many weight classes and fought the very best fighters, took some bad losses along the way to the point that many didn’t think that they had anymore in the tank. Both were also heavily underestimated and still gave scintillating performances against good fighters even while past their prime.

Pacquiao, I think, has earned the right to be mentioned in the same breathe as other past ATGs such as Roberto Duran. Probably not as great as Duran but pretty damn close.

YES.

but Pac surpassed Duran with his welterweight run

[War Room]

I think your name should be IDKSAB12345.

He's not wrong. Someone posted list Durans top 5 best wins and I could only come up with 4. I grew up watching Duran so I'm from the era. After looking at his record, it's pretty bad for names.

Why don't you list Durans top 5 best wins and lets see how much you know?

[War Room]

but Duran managed to beat his version of Floyd

That's true and nobody can argue that, Durans best win is better than Manny's best win ---> no argument. But Manny has a lot better wins on his record than Duran does even if those names have *'s on them which I believe they all do.

JMM, Mosely, Hoya, Morales, MAB, Hatton, Cotto, Margarito, Bradley.

Name my Durans 5 best wins and if you can, name me Durans 9 best wins.

[Flo_Raiden]

He's not wrong. Someone posted list Durans top 5 best wins and I could only come up with 4. I grew up watching Duran so I'm from the era. After looking at his record, it's pretty bad for names.

Why don't you list Durans top 5 best wins and lets see how much you know?

Sugar Ray Leonard
Ken Buchanan
Carlos Palomino
Iran Barkley
Ray Lampkin
Davey Moore
Esteban DeJesus x2
Pipino Cuevas

also beat 2 guys that defeated the great Alexis Arguello
Vilomar Fernandez
Ernesto Marcel

[pesticid]

Sugar Ray Leonard
Ken Buchanan
Carlos Palomino
Iran Barkley
Ray Lampkin
Davey Moore
Esteban DeJesus x2
Pipino Cuevas

also beat 2 guys that defeated the great Alexis Arguello
Vilomar Fernandez
Ernesto Marcel

As far as Pacman
Barrera twice
Morales twice
JMM twice
Cotto
Bradley twice
DLH
Ricky Hatton
Mosley
Thurman