Is there ANYBODY here that likes both Pac AND Floyd?

[Nameless]

Moderately like PAcman, quite dislike Floyd here.

[Gandalf]

I dislike them both. They are both egomaniacs who pick and choose their opponents too carefully for my liking. Thankfully it all went wrong against Marquez last time out for Pac.

[p4pking]

Clearly there are plenty of people on here who like both boxers and enjoy watching them fight, it's just you dont see them posting what Manny Pacquiao had for breakfast this morning or how many days Mayweather might spend in jail next month. Its the posters with some bizzare emotional investement that you have to wonder about, would one bother to nitpick at these guys the way some posters do if they didn't have wet dreams for the other? The worst part of it all is that both Floyd and Manny are almost as useless out of the ring as they are capable in it, hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff in that little soap opera I'd say.

[Fenster]

I admire both for their boxing talent. They are genuine all-time great fighters. People that try and pull apart their records just because they don't like them are pathetic IMO.

I couldn't care less about their actual personalities. I don't know them. I have no desire to know them. They are just ordinary flawed human beings like everyone else. Being extremely talented at boxing doesn't change that fact. Fact.

[erics44]

for a non boxing fan or a bxoing fan outside america its probably not a big deal

i dont really mind

i dont like andre ward due to the love he is getting despite his boring negative tactics

[Althugz]

I couldn't care less about their actual personalities. I don't know them. I have no desire to know them. They are just ordinary flawed human beings like everyone else. Being extremely talented at boxing doesn't change that fact. Fact.

I think this is the part that most people forget when judging them both, especially Floyd.

It's a shame because yes, I was (and really still am) a fan of both fighters and their styles. Seeing a Floyd Mayweather match got me back into boxing but I also liked watching Pacquiaos fights too.

I think I just ended up finding myself having to defend Floyd more often from the ridiculous comments made by the waves of Pactards on a regular basis.

Most who know nothing of boxing but just want to be patriotic. Fine, but I found myself having to remind them constantly of Pacquios flaws and Floyds positives to balance up the equation.

So I find myself being more negative towards Pacquiao than I would like because of how OTT the Pactards are.

One would have you believe that Floyd is a war criminal whilst Pacquiao is a saint.

This annoys me too. They both have good and bad like most human beings - Floyd "might" have been involved in domestic violence where as Pac "might" have cheated on his wife a few times. Both psycholgically damaging things to put someone through.

Both fighters have excellent resumes but both have cherry picked a fair amount too especially in the latter part of their careers. (I actually think Floyds has got stronger since he returned)

Floyd does charity work on a regular basis, pays for peoples funerals etc

They're both great fighters and can't see how anybody could not respect them both at least inside that squared circle.

[Gandalf]

You have to have standards on issues like this and that is why I dislike them both. I can respect what they have done, but I don't have to like them. Floyd is a goon and Pac seems to be so as well. It's more fun to polarise and make it us against them and so that is what I do. My levels of dislike go up and down, but I typically remain on one side of the compass.

Floyd has skills, but he is good at making you dislike him and Pac huggers over the years have done much the same. It's all good fun.

[Mars_ax]

You have to have standards on issues like this and that is why I dislike them both. I can respect what they have done, but I don't have to like them. Floyd is a goon and Pac seems to be so as well. It's more fun to polarise and make it us against them and so that is what I do. My levels of dislike go up and down, but I typically remain on one side of the compass.

Floyd has skills, but he is good at making you dislike him and Pac huggers over the years have done much the same. It's all good fun.

What's undeniable is how both Pac and Floyd have been great for boxing, if nothing else look at all the interest and money they've generated for the sport.

[Gandalf]

You have to have standards on issues like this and that is why I dislike them both. I can respect what they have done, but I don't have to like them. Floyd is a goon and Pac seems to be so as well. It's more fun to polarise and make it us against them and so that is what I do. My levels of dislike go up and down, but I typically remain on one side of the compass.

Floyd has skills, but he is good at making you dislike him and Pac huggers over the years have done much the same. It's all good fun.

What's undeniable is how both Pac and Floyd have been great for boxing, if nothing else look at all the interest and money they've generated for the sport.

Money isn't such a big factor to me. Neither is the armchair viewer.

It isn't as though boxing ever respects viewers.