Manny Pacquiao as The World's Hardest Puncher?

[cockey cockney]

dont get me wrong i think Pac is one of the best p4p in the world....but putting him in with the likes of ODLH and Hatton is a joke. I realy cannot see how these fights would be winnable even with that cracking punch. P4p though he could be one of, if not the, hardest hitter around.

[Taeth]

He used to be the hardest puncher p4p, but at 130 and 135 its more his speed along with his power in a RJJ sense that makes him a KO artist. He doesn't hit IMO p4p as hard as Cintron or Wladimir(who I think hits harder than Peter) or Valero, but he hits oponents with punches they don't see and at a high frequency, but at 122ish weight he hit bloody hard.

[Julius Rain]

at 126 and below pac was a one hit devestating puncher, just ask jmm, mab, 3k battery, ledwaba, julio, lucero, and a whole loads more. How he puts his punches together is ten times unbareable though.

[Bomp]

Before ANY talk of a fight at 140, he'd need to clear out the divisions below to give any legitimacy for the fight. That means minimum to beat JMM and then Juan Diaz, that's a LOT of speculation. IMO the best he could do power wise is match Hatton at 140, and like Adam said, he would be giving away every other physical attribute except for speed.

[donnydarkoIRL]

The Mexi-Cutioner is an exceptional talent, a truely awe-inspiring Boxer but...

Pacquiao's skills cannot compensate for his distinct disadvantage in terms of size and power when Ricky Hatton and Oscar De la Hoya are the context in which these hypothetical fights are being discussed.

Should Manny elevate his weight to 140 lbs, he would surely approach this task with the intention of piling on muscle mass. This would be achievable at the cost of his speed. Manny cannot conceivably climb to Light Welterweight or even above and be expected to be succesful. For a man who I believe started at Flyweight he is already doing incredibly well and I feel that he shouldn't feel obliged to prove himself anymore than he has to in his impending Rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez.

[Pugilistic]

manny should go no higher than 135.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Naseem Hamed.






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