Surely it will be Manny vs Floyd in 2009

[KKisser]

I love Pac for what he just did to Oscar, but I cannot picture him beating PBF. However, if I were PBF, I'd take a tune-up fight first, just to shake the rust off.

True.the long break would absolutely effect Floyd.Floyd should fight this March then Hatton vs Pac on May.Then the greatest fight of this generation should happen next December.

yup! while hatton-pac is happening, floyd needs a tune-up to show he still got it. it will only lead up to a bigger lb4lb top guys' clash if manny beats the hitman.

[Julius Rain]

Come on guys, we all know belts mean less to pac then the name of his oppenent. He knows the name of his oppenent is better for his legecy then belts. He does want hatton but im sure his starving to fuck floyd up. He has been saying all along he would fight hatton in england and want the crowd against him cause even boos motivated him. I think he will take on hatton but if floyd steps in he would want him even more. Pac wants the best thats his ambition. His been like that way before he was rich, Im a big fan cause pac is still as hungry as the boy who grew up in GENERAL SANTOS PHILIPPINES. Can we say that about anybody else, thats been were pac is now?

[hitmanhatton]

i made a thread about a year ago stating that the only currently active fighter that could beat pbf was pacquiao and basically got laughed at due to the big weight difference,

not looking so stupid now is it

[KKisser]

Why I would like to see him beat Hatton before Floyd, is simply because it would make the Pac v Floyd fight even bigger... There is still the question of whether Pac could beat Hatton... So going into the Floyd fight, people would still consider him a bit of an unknown quantity after Oscar brought nothing to the table...

But a destruction of Hatton would have him at the absolute top of any weight under 147, and the world would pracitically stop for a matchup then with Floyd... I think Floyd would probably like it that way as well, to see Pac beat Hatton first..

Not that I wouldn't love to see him fight Floyd and certainly wouldn't complain about it coming as Pac's next fight.

exactly what i was thinking. anyways, you said it better.

[yvonne]

Pacman vs Hitman at wembly in june 2009 with 100,000 fans screaming for both fighters to give us a great real scrap!!!

[Beanflicker]

It must rot Mayweather that Pac disposed of DLH way more convincingly than he did. Pac stopped Oscar while Floyd never really even hurt him except for one counter right hand.

I think this could be a classic. These two guys are the ATGs of this generation. Pac will go down as a ATG in my eyes, and as big of an a$$hole as Floyd may be, he will be an ATG as well. Make it happen at 140 so there will be no excuses from either side.

I think Pac would tear Ricky up judging by what I saw last night.

[Majesty]

i made a thread about a year ago stating that the only currently active fighter that could beat pbf was pacquiao and basically got laughed at due to the big weight difference,

not looking so stupid now is it

if you want to compare the way Oscar fought Manny to the way Mayweather would.

And overall its a bigger fight if Pacquiao beats Hatton first which I think he has a very big chance at doing.

This is the kind of thing that would make Mayweather "unretire"

If you asked PBF to fight Manny now he would probably say the typical "So he beat an old oscar de la hoya, I did that at 154, and Oscar couldn't look impressive against Forbes, he was old, what did that fight prove? I'm the best fighter IN THE WORLD. With the best team IN THE WORLD."

But if Manny beats Hatton especially the way he beat Oscar. Then people will say "Pacquiao beat both Hatton and De La Hoya more impressively then Mayweather did"

That's what can bring the fight up and ultimately make it bigger.

[hitmanhatton]

i made a thread about a year ago stating that the only currently active fighter that could beat pbf was pacquiao and basically got laughed at due to the big weight difference,

not looking so stupid now is it

if you want to compare the way Oscar fought Manny to the way Mayweather would.

And overall its a bigger fight if Pacquiao beats Hatton first which I think he has a very big chance at doing.

This is the kind of thing that would make Mayweather "unretire"

If you asked PBF to fight Manny now he would probably say the typical "So he beat an old oscar de la hoya, I did that at 154, and Oscar couldn't look impressive against Forbes, he was old, what did that fight prove? I'm the best fighter IN THE WORLD. With the best team IN THE WORLD."

But if Manny beats Hatton especially the way he beat Oscar. Then people will say "Pacquiao beat both Hatton and De La Hoya more impressively then Mayweather did"

That's what can bring the fight up and ultimately make it bigger.

no worries dude i was just being a bit smug that i had predicted that their paths may even cross in the future way back when he was at 126/130

[Majesty]

i made a thread about a year ago stating that the only currently active fighter that could beat pbf was pacquiao and basically got laughed at due to the big weight difference,

not looking so stupid now is it

if you want to compare the way Oscar fought Manny to the way Mayweather would.

And overall its a bigger fight if Pacquiao beats Hatton first which I think he has a very big chance at doing.

This is the kind of thing that would make Mayweather "unretire"

If you asked PBF to fight Manny now he would probably say the typical "So he beat an old oscar de la hoya, I did that at 154, and Oscar couldn't look impressive against Forbes, he was old, what did that fight prove? I'm the best fighter IN THE WORLD. With the best team IN THE WORLD."

But if Manny beats Hatton especially the way he beat Oscar. Then people will say "Pacquiao beat both Hatton and De La Hoya more impressively then Mayweather did"

That's what can bring the fight up and ultimately make it bigger.

no worries dude i was just being a bit smug that i had predicted that their paths may even cross in the future way back when he was at 126/130

Thats a good prediction, given the events you'd be right.

But I do think Pacquaio should fight Hatton first. They were talking about Henry Armstrong right on the De La Hoya fight, well then he SHOUDL go to 140 and beat Hatton for those titles and they wont call it "cherry picking" like they did against Diaz

[Chino]

I think Pac would tear Ricky up judging by what I saw last night.

If Ricky was as old and way passed his prime like ODLH then I would also say that Pac would tear him up easily. Sure, I can see Pac winning against Ricky. Pac beat The Great Oscar De La Hoya, actually, an old passed his prime OLDH. It happens all the time with fighters who decided to stay in the ring longer than they should. Others beat them and look great.
Pac has looked good in his recent fights. He didn't look as invincible twice against Marquez but other than that, he seems to be going through the right path.

[hitmanhatton]

ye majesty it is a great fight that needs to happen and will greatly enhance the winners legacy, i dont think it can be called cherry picking, ricky called him out really, with regards to diaz he had the WBC and pac was taking it so again not cherry picking