It's hard for me to say Floyd has cherry picked his way for straight 18 years.
My knock on his competiton is : fighting Zab after he lost to Baldomir.
Not fighting Paul Williams or Antonio Margarito @ WW win they were on the winning side of their careers.
I respect him for 18 years:1 knockdown ( his glove scraped the canvas)
Beat undefeated fighters: Diego Corrales, Ricky Hatton & Canelo
Defeated Mosley after Shane mugged Margarito
+ His last 4-5 fights came against fighters all in their 20's: Ortiz, Guerrero, Canelo & Maidana
My knock with Pacquiao was fighting David Diaz at LW, but not undefeated Juan Diaz (JMM did) or the guy who beat Juan Diaz (Nate Campbell) or the linear champ at the time Casamayor (JMM did) or then undefeated Michael Katsidis (JMM)
@ the time it looked like JMM was chasing Pac UP in weight, while cleaning out divisions.
I totally blame Arum as IMO Pac would fight anyone, but he fought more catchweights than a mutha.
Today they claimed he has won titles in 8 divisions- BUT if you look at what he weighed fight night -not the weigh in against MAB in 03' it was 138, then years later against Margarito @ catchweight it was 147.
How in the hell does a man win 8 different weight classes while coming in between 138-147 from 2003-2014? Catchweighting his ass all the way to the Boxing Hall of Fame.
I do respect Pac for the way he ends fights. No question marks.
In conclusion: Morales outboxed him fight one & busted him up-
JMM & he fought like Frazier-Ali: no definitive winner, rather two guys who know each other too well for a clear winner.
His best win to me is over a young undefeated Bradley- As Hatton proved China chin with Jurango and even stopped by moderate puncher PBF.
Pac totally outclassed Margarito and Rios, great wins over (mediocre fighters)
Floyd hands down has the best career, best resume and fought them more on their terms, while Pac beat most of hs fighters at catchweights, or after they recently lost.
Pac is a great fighter, while Floyd has a great record. Somehow they both cancel each other out..
as they both have question marks. (sorry 4 the long post)
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