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To save you the time here's the exact sentence copied and pasted

Asia has never had an all time great superstar and for the first time in a very long time we have a chance for a fighter not from the continent of America to go on and become an alltime great.

So what part of that are you disagreeing with exactly?
Well, as you're getting pissy over the exact wording then you didn't say Top 20 ATG, in which case Jimmy Wilde, Azumah Nelson, Lennox Lewis, Joe Calzaghe, Khaosai Galaxy, Marcel Cerdan, Fighting Harad all qualify. I also read it quickly & just read America, in which case I retract some of those fighters, but the ones above are still valid.
So if Manny beat Cotto you'd still have Jimmy Wilde, Azumah Nelson, Lennox Lewis, Joe Calzaghe, Khaisai Galaxt, Marcel Cerden and Fighting Harad on the same level as him?

For starters Manny is higher on the all time p4p than virtually all of them right now, if he beat Cotto, even at 145 he's knocking on the door of the top 10 of all time.

You really want to argue this?
Read my earlier post, where I said exactly that I rate Pacquiao higher than any of those guys, however that doesn't mean that they are not also ATGs. Try reading

What I was arguing was that they are ATGs, and in the case of Harada & also Dick Tiger they are in some people's all time Top 20s. Tiger in his time was actually a similar level of superstar as Pacquiao is now as hard as that might be to believe. I think if Pacquiao beats Cotto he's probably in my Top 20 of all-time, not sure he's in the Top 10 for me, there's too many great fighters for him to jump there yet. If he then beat Floyd though, he probably would jump there