Why? People have different views. Not everyone sees things the same. I posted link where people in the boxing industry thought Hatton had a chance. I mean it wasn't out the realm of possibilities Manny could have got beat down or caught.
Okay. Then apply that same logic to Floyd challenging the reigning welterweight champions in Carlos Baldomir (no question a journeyman but still a legitimate champion), Zab Judah, and Victor Ortiz.
Ultimately, with you, I just ask for you to apply the same yardstick to all fighters. I've been asking for that in vain for a couple years now and I guess I'm too stubborn to quit or too naive thinking you might someday.
Wow, I guess Ortiz is the new Chop Chop. There is nothing that suggest dude was better than Antonio, Cotto, Hatton, or Oscar. But if you think Ortiz the guy that quit in the ring twice. Once with Medina and then when he had a mental breakdown in the ring with PBF. But you are entitled to have an opinion. It isn't crazy. It isn't wrong. It is just your opinion and I disagree.
Corley was the welterweight champion when he and Floyd fought? Was he a champion at all?
At this stage of their careers, of course he's better than Margarito. Cotto? Maybe. He's definitely better at 147 than Hatton was and stood a better chance at Mayweather than Hatton did Pacquiao.
I think people sleep on some of Pacquiao's early work before Barrera, Morales, and JMM because boxing below 126lbs is usually ignored when compared to the other weights. However, I'm not going to get into it right now, but take a closer look at the champs Pacquiao beat before those three Mexicans. When you consider those champs and compare them to the champs Mayweather fought during similar stages, they were better than the guys Mayweather beat for titles as he rose in weight, Genaro Hernandez and Arturo Gatti for example. Also, they were the top champions in their respective divisions unlike Hernandez and Gatti. Asia has had some nice fighters. One of my favorite champs from the 90's was San Sor Ploenchit. Ploenchit was the shit! That dude was slick, a deceptive puncher behind a beautiful jab and was in some of the most memorable fights for those that follow the minimum weight divisions. Check him out sometime if you haven't already. I was only able to see his fights because I was overseas at the time. I don't think they were showing him in the U.S
They weren't. I might have to.
Regarding the knockout of Ortiz, it just wasn't a normal ending or a normal knock out. It is what it is. Ortiz may have been behind in the cards but he was definitely in the fight. I would have preferred to see the fight end under normal circumstances.
Understandable. I just didn't like the term "dubious".
Damn, I never knew Ortiz was held in such high regard by you guys. He may have the physical tools but boxing is also so mental. He went life and death with Lamont Peterson. I think it's disrespectful to say that such an under accomplished guy is better than Miguel Cotto and even Antonio Margarito. If Maidana made Ortiz quit, imagine what a prime Margarito would have done. If Ortiz had the mental strength of a Julio Cesar Chavez, I would agree that he has tremendous potential. Without that, again, it's just insulting to say he is better than the other more established guys.
In his prime, Margarito might have been too much for Ortiz at this point but that's not the Margarito that's fighting now or has been since getting blitzed by Shane Mosley. When I make the comparison it's with the men as they are, not what they may be or used to be.
Antonio was a top pound for pound fighter at one time. Who also once was the undisputed kingpin of his division.
That's not who Pacquiao fought. He fought a guy who was just holding on to the one thing he knows he can do and make money, similar to Ricky Hatton pummelling Castillo.
He wasn't the undisputed champion. He lost his WBO title to Paul Williams and never fought him again, instead went after Cotto.
Cotto is a freaking hof'er that is still the best in his division
Cotto might be the best in his division but since he hasn't fought any good fighters in it, I think it's early to say that. As is his HoF status.
Hatton's biggest win was against a dude that just got inducted into the hof. Not to mention he made him quit the fight and boxing.
True but since we know styles make fights and Pacquiao, while not highly skilled is more skilled than Hatton, Ricky was the perfect opponent for him, even more than he was for Mayweather. Still, I think that was a legitimately great win but not a challenge.
Oscar was done after his got that gift against Sturm. Bhop reheated him and ate him up. PBF made him look like a two left foot actor on "dancing with the stars". And Manny killed him. Still, I would put an Oscar that just lost to Manny over Ortiz any day. But that's my opinion and I'm not in the click. So it is what it is.
You would be the only one who would put that shell of a figher as DLH was against Ortiz.
To say he was done after the Sturm robbery is revisionist history. He looked bad agaisnt Sturm because he was fighting outside his weight class and never adjusted to fighting as a middleweight. But he was coming off knocking out Ricardo Mayorga (back when that meant something) for the Mayweather fight and it was his weight of jr middle, not Floyd's at welter.