Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao - One of The Greatest

[The Big Dunn]

Pac accomplished something that haters considered impossible to attain unless you're into performance-enhancing drugs. Pac was phenomenal beating guys bigger than him and he beats them in brutal fashion. He always gives his all and made sure he puts the paying fans first before his own safety.

IMHO, Pac is clean unless he got caught that I don't know of.

Can’t get caught if you don’t test.

[Random1]

"He took part in a remarkable 17 fights against opponents who are in or likely to enter the Hall of Fame, going 12-4-1 those bouts. They are Tim Bradley (2-1), Floyd Mayweather (0-1), Marquez (2-1-1), Mosley (1-0), Cotto (1-0), De La Hoya (1-0), Hatton (1-0), Barrera (2-0) and Morales (2-1)."

"No fighter of his era comes close to matching that sparkling resume except perhaps Mayweather, who never lost a fight but didn’t face as many elite opponents as Pacquiao did. For example, Mayweather faced eight opponents in or likely to enter the Hall of Fame (Pacquiao, Canelo Alvarez, Cotto, Mosley, Marquez, Hatton, De La Hoya and Gatti)."

This is a clever word trick to sound like it's 17-8. It's actually 9-8 in favor of Manny as far as different opponents go, Floyd never needed rematches with these guys. To be fair Bradley shouldn't have been needed either.

[spenz]

Those guys were way bigger than Pacquiao and are used to fighting equal to their natural weight and in some cases they are the weight bullies not the other way around. Manny fought at a weight where he has to eat 2-4 thousand more calories so that he can make welterweight--because WW is the most lucrative in his time--he was practically handicapping himself when fighting.

His best weight is probably 135-140. It's also the reason knockouts don't happen anymore, it has come to a point where these big guys can take his power. His crazy knockouts happened in lower weights where his power really matters.

Somehow in someway this little guy has overachieved. So much so that he was accused of taking steroids because he was too good. Well, he's 40 now and people are still waiting for a boxer who would do a dela hoya, chavez, camacho, holmes on him. (In other words, Retire him by dominating him because this kind of fighters will continue to fight until someone reminded them that he is already too old for this game.)

[embryo]

IMHO, Pac is clean unless he got caught that I don't know of.

Exactly. He was never caught, and FLOYD WAS!!!! And so was Morales who Pac KO'd TWICE. (And another fighter Floyd ducked and never fought and should have)

[Elroy The Great]

Exactly. He was never caught, and FLOYD WAS!!!! And so was Morales who Pac KO'd TWICE. (And another fighter Floyd ducked and never fought and should have)

pac refused to give into no cutoff blood testing. fought may in court instead of in the ring.

who does that

[Pacquiaotard86]

pacquiao is the best fighter of his era pound for pound there's is no doubt about that!

Preach brother preach

[rmd22360]

So the years and fights that stick out, happen to be the exact time frame that he had Ariza giving him mystery shakes. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

This piece is like something written about how great Barry Bonds was, without ever mentioning the suspicions against him. After all, both Pac and Barry never failed any tests. Both were great, then suddenly became much better. Both had heads that grew in size during their 30's.

The only problem with your argument was that Barry Bond was caught using PED by the FBI and I'm pretty sure Manny Pacquiao was also a subject of interest for FBI but nothing has been proven against Pacquiao ever since so it's safe to safe that Manny Pacquiao is clean. Canelo was proven to be PED user and other good boxers too. Manny Pacquiao? NADA. So if you have proof, brother, send it to FBI or else just shut the **** off (STFU)

[rmd22360]

Can’t get caught if you don’t test.

Guilty until proven innocent??? No you're wrong, Manny was tested by VADA, USADA and the boxing jurisdiction and found nothing. Canelo, Mayweather, Morales and others were....Simply said, Manny Pacquiao was one of the greatest boxer of all time in the tradition of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis and others

[Spoon23]

Pac faced 17 Hofs mayweather faced 8...floyd cherry pickin ducked atleast 9 times including manny LOL...floyd made sure in history he still #1 coward in boxing

Wow, harsh, but true.

[Spoon23]

If a high profile athlete like pac was ever on peds it would've came to light by now. Just like Lance Armstrong. B samples are saved and retested for future use to test for illegal substances that weren't tested for in the past. That's how lance got caught. A big lie cannot be hidden forever

And yet to this day PAC has no smoking gun, while Floyd has shady TE RATIOS, caught Ivs sticking in him etc etc..

Well said.