Quote Originally Posted by milmascaras1 View Post
bilbo,

the big difference is that pacquiao isn't fighting any in their prime fighters at higher weights. imo, fighting and beating opponents at higher weight classes is vastly underrated, unless of course they're in their prime. do you not think marquez could have beaten de la hoya and ricky hatton too? cotto and clottey are different stories because they are much bigger than marquez and you've also got to consider marquez' age as well. while oscar is much bigger than marquez, if he came into a marquez fight in the same condition as he came in against pacquaio, marquez would have shut him out. but you cannot deny that at 37 yo., marquez has had a much better resume (with the exception of oscar's) than all of pacquiao's opponents at the higher weights. the reason why marquez/pacquiao needed to happen was because there was still a lot of questions to be answered after their two fights. most people thought marquez at least won the rematch.

the guys i mentioned, do fight opponents near their primes. sergio martinez has beaten pavlik and williams while those two were in their primes. and about pacquiao's resume, i never said it wasn't impressive. i'm just like any other fan who wants to see him challenged by a younger, in his prime opponent.
Their ages aren't important here. They were the guys at the top. Who aside from Floyd has Manny dodged that was higher rated from junior welter to light middle than Oscar, Hatton, Cotto, Clottey, Margarito etc?

You say he keeps fighting old men, (and only one of them was old) but they were BEST opponents out there. What welterweight are you angry he didn't face?

He has faced Marquez, Hatton, De La Hoya, Cotto, Clottey and Margarito. That is pretty damn comprehensive. Aside from Berto there is nobody at welterweight who you could even conveivably argue is better than any of the guys he has already beat.

Go and have a look at the Ring rankings. Better yet, I'll copy and paste them here.

Champ: Vacant

1. Manny Pacquaio
2. Floyd Mayweather
3. Andre Berto
4. Miguel Cotto
5. Shane Mosley
6. Joshua Clottey
7. Jan Zevek
8. Vyacheslav Senchenko
9. Rafael Jackiewicz
10. Timothy Bradley

So of the 9 possible opponents Manny has already beaten Cotto and Clottey and he is likely facing Mosley next. He wants Floyd, but Floyd won't fight him it seems, and he would gladly fight Berto too. All the others are total unknowns apart from Bradley who only moved up in his last fight.

Your argument is ridiculous. Who should he have fought who he didnt?