The controversy about who is the best boxer in Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, , has never stopped, or even never stopped...
boxing expert and former HBO famous analyst Max Kellerman believes that Pacquiao is a better boxer than Mayweather , because of Pacquiao's ranking in P4P and the number of times he won the championship at different levels.
01 Who is the best? Mayweather or Pacquiao?
Although I think Pacquiao is better than Mayweather, Kellerman admitted that no matter when the two meet, Pacquiao will never be able to beat Mayweather. It is estimated that Kellerman's "suppress first and then rise" method will make Pacquiao fans swear.
Mayweather and Pacquiao met in 2015. The competition between the two sides was at least 4 years later than boxing fans expected, but Kellerman emphasized that even in the confrontation four years ago, Pacquiao was not a rival to Mayweather.
In Kellerman's opinion, Pacquiao got more affirmation than Mayweather in the P4P rankings, saying: "You can say that, I can think so, that is that Pacquiao is better than Mayweather. However, Mayweather defeated Pacquiao! Yes, if they met at their peak, Mayweather would still defeat Pacquiao, and he could even beat Pacquiao at any time."
Mayweather initially won the world championship at 130 pounds over featherweight , on the contrary, Pacquiao's first world championship was won at 112 pounds flyweight . From the perspective of the time, it was hard to imagine that both sides would compete on the same stage one day. Kellerman said: "Pacquiao is a natural little man. He won the first boxing title at 112 pounds, and later promoted all the way until he won 8 boxing titles at different levels. If you consider Pacquiao's background and professional experience, you will indeed think that he is a better boxer, at least at more levels than Mayweather."
025 levels and 8 levels
Mayweather's career has won 5 different levels, and he is indeed not as good as Pacquiao's 8 levels in terms of data. However, from the perspective of data, World Boxing News pointed out that Mayweather is not much worse than Pacquiao in this regard.
"World Boxing News" believes that Mayweather defeated slightly more champion-level boxers than Pacquiao in his career. Mayweather defeated 23 champion boxers, and Pacquiao defeated 22 champion boxers, which was slightly better than Mayweather. At the same time, Mayweather is more prominent in defeating champion-level boxers in a row, because he defeated 15 champion-level boxers in the 10 years from 2005 to 2015, but Pacquiao suffered several losses.
Obviously, Pacquiao fans will feel that their idol is better than Mayweather, but boxing fans who support Mayweather will point out that, as Kellerman said, Mayweather will most likely win no matter when the two sides meet.
The author believes that judging from the P4P rankings in the boxing world over the years, Pacquiao is indeed very outstanding, but he can only be said to be one of the best boxers, but he is not the top one, although he may be more outstanding than most people.
03 Road to the exhibition competition
Once upon a time, Pacquiao was very disdainful of the exhibition competition, but to this day, he has also joined the team of the exhibition competition. Compared to Pacquiao, Mayweather is more familiar with the performance matches, because after 2017, he will devote all his energy to it.
Some critics believe that Mayweather's frequent performance matches will affect his status in the boxing world, but this view is a bit far-fetched. Mayweather's achievements in professional arena before 2017 will never be damaged, and his record of winning all 50 games will always shine.
Mayweather's last professional game was against Connor McGregor , which was not the best way to end, but Mayweather took control of the situation as easily as usual.Mayweather is the largest PPV winner in history in the entire United States and even the world. This is a demonstration of his strength and his team. No one can surpass this, and naturally no one denies the relevant facts.
In the game with Mayweather, Pacquiao had to face such a problem. He is the second best boxer of his era. Because of Mayweather, no one is more suitable for the first place than Mayweather.
