Comments Thread For: Emanuel Steward on Pacquiao-Margarito, Fight Weight, More

[JoeDaWg]

Great now we have to listen all these key board cowboys talk about how ste***** a ******* and doesn't know **** about boxing, awesome.

LOL.
Dont recall mayweathr callin out winky and fithing at catchweight for a legit belt

Just like pacquiao did with cotto and margarito

There's like 2 thousand belts out there, who gives a **** ass about this belt or that belt, there all garbage. He could be fighting for some dirt and a belt made out of duck tape, it doesn't have **** to do with the fight. It's not like he can use the belt to clock margacheato over the head is it? Why all the hate? Dude is fighting a fool twice his size (again) and it's gonna be a ****ing war, last time I checked that is what boxing's all about.

[boxingfan76]

LOL at a LW cherry picking on a WW. GTFO fishnet boy thought he had an easy fight worth $$$$.

if pacman is so good why is he even fighting margarito?? isnt margs not even ranked at jr middle, didnt he get destroyed by ssm? dint margs already beat cotto,clottey in fact took their zero?? how many sure win fights must pac fight for u to realize he does cherry pick every opponent?? how many 10 15 20? if pac was all that hed be facing martinez,williams,or angulo! WE ALL KNOW PAC IS A GREAT FIGHTER TIME FOR HIM TO FACE OTHER GREATS, I HOPE MARGS PULLS THE UPSET. i dont want to hear he needs to test the waters at jr middle when hes fighting at yet another catchweight . this time150lbs cuz 151 was too close for roach.god forbid pac doesnt cheat history and fight at 154lbs for a vacant belt. its a scam and pac is just as guilty of fighting handpicked opposition as mayweather is maybe even worse, its just masked because hes asian and popular. Duran faced guys he could lose to monsters, and in fact did lose,he faced the best of the best in 3 differnt eras, manny aint got nothing on duran at all.steward is an idiot for even comparing, and steward is also wrong to say manny takes on all comers, since when?? pac takes on all comers only if they are past their prime coming off of losses or are shot.still waiting on that 3rd jmm fight or a legit top champ in their prme on a winning streak.

[UglyPug]

it's funny how time, dominance, making world class, pound for pound boxers your little personal ***** (that outweigh you by 20 natural pounds) and an eighth division world title matchup on the horizon changes things... MANNY WAS A 2.5 'DOG AGAINST DE LA HOYA!!! hahaha... Manny jumped up from lightweight, WHERE HE HAD ONE FIGHT AT, straight to 147 (yes, the ODLH fight was not a catchweight, but rather the full WW limit), to fight a hall of famer, not far removed from his peak prime... MANNY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HAND PICKED FOR OSCAR! LOL

[AmericanFighter]

Where the f is Floyd now? Where's the face of boxing? Haven't read an article about the face of boxing for over two weeks now. I think it serves him better when he's forgotten. He once said that boxing will always be here as long as he's around. Well, he's not around, but boxing is still alive and well. Anyway, WHERE IS THE FACE OF BOXING?

[BennyST]

Duran has faced legends and so has pac @ different eras, different weight classes. It is hard to compare the myth of legends past with current hof fighters.. Past fighters have that aura. I can't say Manny has faced better comp just because, like you, to me, the mystique of past legends are unsurpassable. Maybe a kid watching boxing now can answer that in 10-15 years, when manny is to him what hagler, spinks, leaonard was to me.

Ummm, there is no myth. Duran faced fighters that would cream Pac and every single fighter he has faced. That's not a myth. Go watch the fights. They are easy to see.

Him moving from 118 to 175 is not a myth. Him beating HOFers and great champions from the 60's to the late 90's is not a myth. He wasn't fighting 100 years ago. In fact he was still fighting in the 2000's.

Nor is it a myth that beating a guy like Ray Leonard, a prime, younger, bigger, faster, blah, blah, blah arguably top ten ATG is not a myth. Duran beat and faced opposition that ****s on Pac's. He also faced such a wider range of fighters as to be completely incomparable. The biggest guy Pac has faced, even though he is supposedly always fighting bigger guys, is Margarito.

Duran faced guys that much bigger routinely. Leonard was as big as Margarito at 147 and Duran as big as Pac.

Moving up to 160 and beating a 6'1" prime middle weight champion coming off a KO win over another ATG at 38 years old isn't a myth. That same guy later become a three division champion along with KOing a former HW champ for a minor title there too. What about moving up to 168 and beating a prime guy who had just come off wins over MW/SMW champions Reggie Johnson, John David Jackson etc and a six defense reign of the MW championship?

What about fifteen years before the aforementioned fight (as long as Pac has been fighting as a pro) when he moved up and fought the reigning undisputed 160 king, and top ATG in his prime and who had been unbeaten in a decade. Myth?

P{ac is really great. No one can dispute that and he achieved things that no one else has, but, his resume and the guys he has faced do not compare to some of the greats who have gone before him. It's no myth. It's just how boxing works now. In fact, when was the last time Pac even faced a 'mover' like Ray Leonard or even a Kirkland Laing? As far as I know, he never has. Not once in his entire career, let alone an ATG one with five inches in height and many years younger.

Steward has no ****ing clue. He's starting to sound like Bert Sugar.

[boxer2k5]

manny dont cherry pick anyone. bob arum does. manny jsut figts who bob put in front of him. manny jsut demands money thats all.

[Sugar Q]

How dare anyone compare Duran and Pac. Duran faced legends in their prime. Some were undefeated, while Manny waits for his opponents to become vulnerable then he goes after them. Manny, his team and the whole Top Prank is just that "A PRANK"

[Bastian Loc]

Probably one of the worst "writers" I've ever read.

I mean just stunningly bad.

[Pullcounter]

lols... look at all these butthurt pac-haters

[mathed]

After yet another win, some other BS will come up trying to discredit the guy, while a lifetime boxing enthusiast and trainer says that Pac is remarkable.......hey who cares what this guy thinks, what does he know wnyways?