Manny Pacquiao's career: What more could he have done?

[Thraxox]

This is a similar thread to the Floyd one. So questions asked once more, what more could have Pac done? Which fighters did he missed? What should he had done for a better career?

[GrandpaBernard]

This is a similar thread to the Floyd one. So questions asked once more, what more could have Pac done? Which fighters did he missed? What should he had done for a better career?

Fight Paul Williams in lieu of margarito.

[SugarRayCurtain]

Beat mayweather and maybe fight guys like raheem and guys at lightweight apart from David Diaz

[Larry the boss]

He is an ATG and has given us his all..Question should be what more could we as fans have done to properly appreciate him

[Robbie Barrett]

Taken the advanced drug testing and fought Mayweather in his prime.

Left Arum so he could fight in the Welterweight division instead of the Top Rank WW Division.

[BM dnobagaV]

Not fought Barrera a 2nd time & Marquez a 3rd time. And Bradley a 3rd time.

Fought Cotto at 147. Fought anybody else instead of Margarito for a 154lb title.

Not be Arum's *****.

[Elroy The Great]

fight may when may ''demanded'' that strict blood test. PAC turned it down. PAC needed advanced notice AND a cutoff date.

strange that after all of these years, pac FINALLY came around and gave. what changed for pac ?!?!?!?!?!? does a pac fiend have an answer ?!?!?!

fighting cotto minus a clause would have been nice. there was absolutely no need for it.

he could have also not fight so many farmers and food vendors in the beginning. how many fights before you recognize a name ?!?!?!?

[Madison Boxing]

he could have taken even more PEDS.

[soul_survivor]

Beaten Mayweather or at least shown more heart in the fight. Apart from that, nothing. He beat 3 atgs and the most relevant names in the lower divisions and then carved out a string of welter wins which stand scrutiny and the test of time.

From the age of 30 on wards he fought 8 or 9 fights against legitimate p4p opponents, 3 of those opponents were considered top 2, lowest top 3 in the division.

That's just remarkable. I could go into his run below lw but that is self explanatory. Greatest fighter of the 21st century.

[Scipio2009]

This is a similar thread to the Floyd one. So questions asked once more, what more could have Pac done? Which fighters did he missed? What should he had done for a better career?

The simple answer would be to have stuck at 140lbs after fighting Ricky Hatton.

Timothy Bradley, Amir Khan, Devon Alexander, Juan Urango, Kendall Holt, and Andrey Kotelnik, among others, were all listed on ring ****zine's annual ratings in the top 10 at 140lbs.

You swap out Cotto (went from having to weigh 2lbs below the welterweight limit to fighting at the full 154lbs in his next fight), Clottey, and Margarito (was said to have been a dead man walking at 150lbs, with whatever fight he had left in the sauna), for basically any three of those fights (in a perfect world, you would've had, depending on the timing of the fights, Juan Urango[IBF], Amir Khan[WBA], Timothy Bradley[WBC/WBO])

All in the prime of their careers, each of the three with their own different style, and fighting Pacquiao in the weight class that he was physically supposed to be fighting at anyway.

Pacquiao finally cleans up a weight class, and then moves up to welterweight (if Arum wanted, he could use the catchweight with Marquez as Pacquiao's attempt to acclimatize for a permanent move up.