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The probability of PAcquaio equaling SRR may or may not happen. Considering that Pacquaio is still improving, I'm taking the issue seriously.
Manny is a few months away from his 29th birthday. When SRR turned 29, he had a record of 107-1.
That was before when the promoters still don't care about the health of boxers. 107 -1 fights (are all these fights great?) The situation now will not provide Manny with that same number of fights.We can only compare the two fighters then on the quality of the fights.
A fighter could still come along these days and have less fights yet still be as good as Robinson. Take Floyd mayweather for example. If he was to have another 20 fights and in those remain undefeated and beat all the big names of the era all the way to and including 160 (Mosely, Hatton, Cotto, Williams, Cintron, Margarito, Wright, Spinks, Taylor, Pavlik, etc) then i think many would rate him as good as Robinson. The argument that todays fighters will never be recognised as great becase of a lack of fights is wrong, they just have to make sure they pack more quality opponents into their shorter careers.
I fully agree on you eagle.cc from me.