Who Fought the Better Fighters? Mayweather or Pacquiao?

[CountryBoy]

[roberto duran legend]

Morales, Barrera, Marquez in his own weight , legends all , this is a no brainer.

[C-Lo]

Honestly, this thread is probably going to start a war. I know a case could be made for each fighter, but I think Pacquiao's record is way better than Mayweather's.

He fought Marquez, Barrera and Morales in a total of 8 fights. Who would fight first ballot hall of famers (for their boxing ability not their popularity) a total of 8 times like that?

He also fought Cotto and Margarito; fighters Floyd did not fight that the public wanted to see.

Floyd has some big names on his resume as well but it's just not on the same level of Manny's

[C-Lo]

ALSO, my post was in now way a comparison of Pacquiao and Mayweather's abilities as fighters (cause it would've obviously been twisted to some people to believe I said that). It's just comparing their resumes, nothing more.

[Dark Lord Al]

they both have great cv's and its been a pleasure to watch them both.

[FinitoElDinamita]

Floyd

[FinitoElDinamita]

Honestly, this thread is probably going to start a war. I know a case could be made for each fighter, but I think Pacquiao's record is way better than Mayweather's.

He fought Marquez, Barrera and Morales in a total of 8 fights. Who would fight first ballot hall of famers (for their boxing ability not their popularity) a total of 8 times like that?

He also fought Cotto and Margarito; fighters Floyd did not fight that the public wanted to see.

Floyd has some big names on his resume as well but it's just not on the same level of Manny's

Yea but we also have look at how they beat those fighters and what condition they were in at the time..

Pac beat Marquez ONLY ON PAPER, but he pretty much got exposed..

Morales and Barrera were past their best..

Delahoya was a walking Zombie

Margarito is slow like a snail and was tailor made... He was cherry picked at a CW..

Cotto was a decent victory..

[roberto duran legend]

Well thats a surprise .

[roberto duran legend]

Iwill guarantee you will be seeing marquez getting exposed soon, but i suppose he is over the hill .

[ICB]

Honestly, this thread is probably going to start a war. I know a case could be made for each fighter, but I think Pacquiao's record is way better than Mayweather's.

He fought Marquez, Barrera and Morales in a total of 8 fights. Who would fight first ballot hall of famers (for their boxing ability not their popularity) a total of 8 times like that?

He also fought Cotto and Margarito; fighters Floyd did not fight that the public wanted to see.

Floyd has some big names on his resume as well but it's just not on the same level of Manny's

Yea but we also have look at how they beat those fighters and what condition they were in at the time..

Pac beat Marquez ONLY ON PAPER, but he pretty much got exposed..

Morales and Barrera were past their best..

Delahoya was a walking Zombie

Margarito is slow like a snail and was tailor made... He was cherry picked at a CW..

Cotto was a decent victory..

MAB was not past his best in the 1st meeting.

[FinitoElDinamita]

Honestly, this thread is probably going to start a war. I know a case could be made for each fighter, but I think Pacquiao's record is way better than Mayweather's.

He fought Marquez, Barrera and Morales in a total of 8 fights. Who would fight first ballot hall of famers (for their boxing ability not their popularity) a total of 8 times like that?

He also fought Cotto and Margarito; fighters Floyd did not fight that the public wanted to see.

Floyd has some big names on his resume as well but it's just not on the same level of Manny's

Yea but we also have look at how they beat those fighters and what condition they were in at the time..

Pac beat Marquez ONLY ON PAPER, but he pretty much got exposed..

Morales and Barrera were past their best..

Delahoya was a walking Zombie

Margarito is slow like a snail and was tailor made... He was cherry picked at a CW..

Cotto was a decent victory..

MAB was not past his best in the 1st meeting.

barrera was in his prime against NAz, but he started slipping after..

Not to make excuses but he had many problems going into the pacman bout.. They started making an issue about the metal plate inside his head and he had to move camp in the middle because of the forrest fire in big bear...

MArco was not in his physical prime against pacman.. He was just a little bit past it..

[THE THIRD MAN]

Honestly, this thread is probably going to start a war. I know a case could be made for each fighter, but I think Pacquiao's record is way better than Mayweather's.

He fought Marquez, Barrera and Morales in a total of 8 fights. Who would fight first ballot hall of famers (for their boxing ability not their popularity) a total of 8 times like that?

He also fought Cotto and Margarito; fighters Floyd did not fight that the public wanted to see.

Floyd has some big names on his resume as well but it's just not on the same level of Manny's

Yea but we also have look at how they beat those fighters and what condition they were in at the time..

Pac beat Marquez ONLY ON PAPER, but he pretty much got exposed..

Morales and Barrera were past their best..

Delahoya was a walking Zombie

Margarito is slow like a snail and was tailor made... He was cherry picked at a CW..

Cotto was a decent victory..

Past their best? Barerra was coming off a string of wins and was only 29 when he first lost to the Pacman, i would say that Barrera was at his peak in 2003? Morales was also just 29 in 2005 when he first beat Pacman, can't see how either fighter was past his best when they fought Pacquaio?
Both fighters have great resumes, i give Pacman the edge as he fought so many times against Barrera, Morales, Marquez and then moved up in weight to beat Cotto, Hatton, Margo, DLH and Mosley. Floyd missed some along the way, Tszyu, Cotto and Margo are not there. Floyd just doesn't fight often enough these days, why he hasn't fought Cotto is still a mystery to me..

[Dench]

Honestly, this thread is probably going to start a war. I know a case could be made for each fighter, but I think Pacquiao's record is way better than Mayweather's.

He fought Marquez, Barrera and Morales in a total of 8 fights. Who would fight first ballot hall of famers (for their boxing ability not their popularity) a total of 8 times like that?

He also fought Cotto and Margarito; fighters Floyd did not fight that the public wanted to see.

Floyd has some big names on his resume as well but it's just not on the same level of Manny's

Yea but we also have look at how they beat those fighters and what condition they were in at the time..

Pac beat Marquez ONLY ON PAPER, but he pretty much got exposed..

Morales and Barrera were past their best..

Delahoya was a walking Zombie

Margarito is slow like a snail and was tailor made... He was cherry picked at a CW..

Cotto was a decent victory..

Pac beat Marquez on Paper only? Thats silly, one judge did admit a scoring error on their first fight that could have given Pac a close win. The second fight still a close win to a very difficult opposition. I think you need to re-phrase what you just said that the win is on paper. I will take it as a close win.

Morales and Barrera past their primes? What on earth are you talking about? Pac beat Barrera when he was the king of the feather weights, thats the reason why he was considered to be the lineal champ after beating the man. Morales is on his prime when they fought 3 times.

Dela Hoya was a walking zombie, and pacman was a walking bloated lightweight. it was dela hoya who made the call to fight pacman on welter, and that should be taken as pac's mistake.

Margarito is a natural big welter and only fought 4-5times above 147lbs on his entire career. A naturally small lightweight like pacman who never fought at light middleweight (for this fight CW of 150lbs) will clearly be at a disadvantage. Pacman is clearly a crazy cherry picker who picks a fight with a guy 4 inches taller, and 17lbs heavier than him on a weight class or catch weight he was never used to.

Cotto a decent win? okay.

you never mentioned Hatton...

[Mr140]

Well C lo are you saying that Pac peaked at 30 or 31 then because for a lower weight fighter kinda weird thing to happen. I mean he was 26 and been fighting for 10 years when Morles beat him but back to the question of there top wins i guess. Would have to be Morles, Barrea, and Marquez for Pac and For Mayweather Castllio, Correles and Dela Hoya i don't see their top wins being to far off really. I guess the thing that can also be said is that Mayweather never lost so kinda what tips off the scale as well.