Prime Pac Man vs. Prime Aaron Pryor. Who Wins?

[marbleheadmaui]

I've answered this before & caught heat for it, so if I find my post in a very similar thread from about 3 months ago I'll post it in. But as it's late over here, I'll just summarize with this. I think Pacquiao stops him in 5-6. I'm of the view that Aaron Pryor is one of the most exciting fighters of all time, but also one of the most overrated. Credit for the Arguello wins, but Pacquiao is a little better imo & also has for my money a much better chin. Great fight while it lasts, but Pacquiao stops him after a short war. Okay I'll prepare to get flayed

Why flayed? We're all guessing here. You're just guessing wrong

I was wondering about the chin thing. Do you think Manny has been hit clean by a bigger puncher than Alexis Arguello? Not p4p a bigger puncher, just a bigger puncher. I guess what I'm asking is who do you think punched harder, a 140 pound Arguello or a 147 pound Cotto?

You don't understand Saddo's do you? You're supposed to mercilessly overreact & threaten to kill my parents when I disagree with you

I'd definitely argue Mosley hit harder than Arguello, but whether he did 10 days ago I don't know because he just seemed concerned with keeping Manny away. I think that a 150 lb Margarito certainly hit harder than Arguello just because of size, maybe not Cotto. I think Arguello's power was probably not quite as brutal at 140 as 130/135, not that I'd really know. I also think that Pryor 'struggled' with southpaws who just weren't on Pacquiao's level in Kameda & Hinton, so how he would do against one of the probably top 5 lefties there's been is for me not that tough a call.

I've got your folks tied up out back by the bear pit.
The reason I picked Cotto was because he landed a couple of clean, hard shots on Manny and I didn't recall Margarito as having done so...but he was marked up so...

I think Arguello probably didn't hit as hard p4p as he did at 130, but in absolute terms wouldn't he have had to? He was noticeably bigger and didn't seem to be carrying any extra weight IIRC. I mean he one punched poor Kevin Rooney and even after he retired and came back he nearly killed Billy Costello. But I sure can't prove he hit harder than a 147 Cotto or a 150 Margarito.

The Hinton fight was in 1985. By then the Hawk was in full cocaine mode and not the same guy as he was in 1980-81. My memory of the Kameda fight is except for the flash knockdown Pryor won every round until he finished him.