Pacquiao, 3rd welterweight P4P best
Credit to Author: EDDIE G. ALINEA| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:25:37 +0000
Old soldier, as they say, never die. They just fade away.
As far as Filipino boxing idol is concerned, though, he, too, never fade away.
Each time he falls, he rises again.
Two years ago and nearing 40, the Philippine Senator was beaten, albeit in controversial fashion, was stripped of his World Boxing Organization welterweight belt and was declared by his promoter and more to-decade trainer as gone.
As in his past many failures, he bounced back, came up with a pair of impressive win, one by stoppage, another via a near shutout unanimous decision to recover his place in the elite group of 147-pound fighters.
No, he hasn’t yet been named in the world’s best fighter, regardless of weight class, but is back in he list pound-for-pound best in his weight category.
Number 3 to be exact, just behind Number 1 Errol Spence Jr. who’s yet to lose in his young 25-fight career and Number Terence Crawford, also unbeaten in 35 times up.
And both, incidentally, want to face our on Manny up the ring just like the guys who round out the top 10 pound-for-pound best — Keith Thurman, No.4, and his former sparring mate Shawn Porter.
Of course they wish Pacquiao as their next dancing partner not only to raise their stocks, but, more importantly, to fatten their pockets. You see, as I have been saying, it is in fighting Manny or, for that matter, Floyd Mayweather Jr., that these guys can first lay their hands on millions on their way to the banks.
Besides ranking the Filipino third in the top 10 P4P, hui fzight rcords 61-7- 2 win-loss-draw card ith 39 KOs, is the 8th best behind junior=lightweight Vasyl Lomachenco ( 11-1,9KOs), middleweight Gennady Golovkin (35-0-1 34 KOs), Crawford, Spence , Thurman, etc.
This may sound a broken record, but Manny, it should be repeated over and over again, is the only eight-division world champion in the history of boxing, having won twelve major world titles as well as being the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes.
Pacquiao is also the first boxer in history to win major world titles in four of the eight “glamour divisions” of boxing: flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight.
He was named “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America, WBC, and WBO. He is also a three-time Ring magazine and BWAA Fighter of the Year, winning the award in 2006, 2008, and 2009; and the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2009 and 2011.
In 2016, Pacquiao was ranked number 2 on ESPN’s list of top pound for pound boxers of the past 25 years and currently ranks Number 4 in BoxRec’s ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.
Before becoming senator, Pacquiao was elected to the House of Representatives in the 15th Congress of the Philippines, representing the province of Sarangani. He was re-elected in 2013 to the 16th Congress of the Philippines.
Completing the top 10 P4P list are Danny Garcia, 6th; Yordeni Ugas, 7th; Egidijus Kavaliauskas, 8th; Jessie Vargas, 9th; and Jamal James, 10th.
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