The Welterweight division, at the moment, looks very promising indeed with some very good fighters sitting on or around the weight and already some mouth-watering bouts lined up.

Number one pound for pound fighter in the world is Manny Pacquiao, and he currently resides in this division, although he started and won his first world title at flyweight he has moved up the weight divisions, capturing belts and beating some of the finest fighters in the world before settling in at welterweight.

He looks comfortable at this weight, unusually so as history has so often repeated itself that when a smaller fighter steps up through the weight divisions they tend to lose either speed or power or sometimes they are not as recuperative as they once were.

It is rare to see a fighter come up in weight and not lose any of their qualities. The strange thing with Pacquiao is, if anything, he has gotten better as he has gone up.

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