On the other side, credit to Pacquiao for taking two tough fights in a row. Putting the distaste for Top Rank aside, clearly now we can all agree that Marquez and Bradley were not gimme fights. I said as much prior to both fights (recall the thread that Marquez was a tougher opponent for Pacquiao than Ortiz was for Mayweather). Whether Pacquiao is on the slide (it looks like it) or his opponents were better than the media made them out to be, Pacquiao took on challenges.