Pacquiao better than Floyd, veteran commentator says

[them_apples]

Merchant explains himself by stating he prefers the type of fighter that Pacquaio is. That certainly is his right. But Floyd has no losses and no draws against better in their prime competition. There is no way Pacquiao is "better" than Floyd Mayweather Jr. Equal, maybe. Based on their accomplishments I don't think so, but at least I can see a logical argument for that.

Pacquiaos resume destroys Mayweather, but Mayweather has no losses.

complete rubbish that Mayweather fought better competition.

[strugler]

MANILA, Philippines – As the debate regarding who is more superior between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. rages on, a well-respected boxing commentator bared that he is siding with Pacquiao.

In an interview with The Ring, Larry Merchant, who provides color commentary for most of broadcaster HBO’s high-magnitude boxing matches, cited Pacquiao’s willingness to face top opposition.

“When I look at Pacquiao, I see that he fought [Erik] Morales three times, [Marco Antonio] Barrera twice, [Juan Manuel] Marquez twice and then moved up to fight the top guys at 140 and 147 pounds at whatever status they had at the time. That to me says a lot,” Merchant said.

It was reported that during his stint at welterweight, the brash Mayweather avoided top contenders and instead fought mediocre foes. He is facing Marquez — a lightweight —in his return bout on July 18.

Pacquiao, on the other hand, has repeatedly moved up in weight to face bigger guys like David Diaz, Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton — and destroyed all three in shocking fashion.

This, Merchant believes, is what made him pick Pacquiao as the better man.

“If you look back at the record, though, I think it shows that Pacquiao is better. I want someone willing to take risks, someone who moves me,” he said.

“I think Pacquiao is better than Mayweather.”

The 77-year-old boxing sage, however, pointed out that him picking Pacquiao doesn’t necessarily mean that the current pound-for-pound king will beat the former pound-for-pound boss — which just makes a Pacquiao-Mayweather showdown more intriguing.

LMAO.damn.....Larry as objective as always.......clearly unbiased..........and he absolutely didnt show his hatred against floyd...........props LARRY for keeping it REAL.............

[TheSurgeonMDMPH]

but youre missing my main point. my point is that people like to pick apart Floyd's resume but I can easily do the same to Pac. I dont mind someone saying that they think its better but to say that its clearly better or that Floyd's is inferior's like alot of people on here say, thats just crazy. Remember when I picked apart Pac's resume the other day? I only did it half way. I couldve went further. Later someone in that same page responded to me by saying that they could do the same to Floyd's resume or anyone's but that was my point in the 1st place. Stop trying to play this dude's resume up. He just has names but its not 100% legit when you break it down. To me the media is so biased towards the non dark hispanic fighters so its always going to be skewed. I remember that everyone always had EM, Pac, MAB, and JMM all ranked super high and never dropped them despite them losing to eachother. They think its ok to lose as long as it was against eachother because they were so good. I use to get upset and say, how do you know how good they are right now if they dont fight any of the other top guys. They dont give those guys chances but the media loves those 4 guys. Then EM fights someone like Raheem and loses or JMM fights Norwood and loses or MAB fights Jones and loses. You see what Im saying? They pick who they like and either your in the group or out of it and they love Pac and hate Floyd.

I just read an article talking about both Pac & Floyd moving up in weight and they act like Pac did it way better because he was still knocking every guy out and Floyd couldnt do that. They dont even aknowledge and probably dont realize that when Floyd moves up he's fighting guys who outweigh him by 15 or more pounds in the ring while Pac moves up and he's the bigger guy in nearly every single fight and the much bigger guy in most fights. I mean, Floyd could move up to HW if he's going to be the bigger man in every fight. There paths are nothing alike but people like to judge them like its exactly the same. Its not. Pac was coming in the ring at 147pounds for his 130 fights against EM. Floyd was 146 at WW. How can you judge them the same? Its night and day but people take that and run with it and automatically make Pac better without even noticing those type of things. Floyd fought Oscar at 154 and came into the ring at 148 while Pac was destroying EM and making him quit at 130 while coming into the ring at just 1 pound less then Floyd was at 154. People were mocking EM for quiting but are they seeing what was happening? EM was way past his prime and Pac physicaly made EM look like a boy. EM is a big guy in his ownright and physicaly it was no match for the huge Pac with that size. Thats why EM shook his head and didnt want to get up. It was like he was in the ring with a WW for a 130 pound fight

You cant dispute this NOVICES! You guys dont know shyt yet press those buttons like you are some sort of "Larry Merchant". GTFOH! Yall watering down the board. If I wasnt so addicted to boxing I would not waste my time with you piss-ons. But like you I have an opinion so I will express it! But, unlike you I will call a spade a spade and not make up shyt as I hear it from another Novices fingers.

[winac]

He's right in what he says

[Tankster]

Merchant loves exciting fighters. He doesn't give a **** about technicallity, he's an hbo commentator for cryin out loud. Merchant is all about sellin fights and ppvs mayweathers boxing style won't make people wanna buy his fights.

[Pullcounter]

merchant hates floyd

[Alibata]

Merchant is a prophet like Freddie Roach. He speaks the truth.

[El Jesus]

I think this gives floyd a reason to really be motivated. i think this type of press is whats nessecary to force him to feel like he has to impress people.

[WhoreUs]

Merchant is a prophet like Freddie Roach. He speaks the truth.

larry had pac in his top 10 p4p back in '01 , bata. lol

the guy is nostradamus!!!!!

[-MAKAVELLI-]

we want you to shut up , reed. lol

we agree....be rational reed......rational