Most successful weight jumps.

[Dickagon]

Pac has always been a good fighter. Think about how limited he's and who he beat prior to moving up to 140+. You've to be special to do that.

[ViperSniper]

Pac has got to be the biggest overachiever in boxing I've come across. I've never been impressed with his style or in ring ability. Pac has proven one too many times though that he has other qualities that made him great other than skillset.

[Snoop]

(02-07-2016 09:33 PM)the ollie reed fan club Wrote:  So Henry Armstrong was on the juice then?

Well, Armstrong competed in a completely different era of boxing where they would do crazyass things like fight every other week, and I wasn't around to watch Armstrong's fights, so I can't say as to how he went about winning the fights while moving up in weight. There's really too many intervening variables to make a straight comparison from era to era.

All I know is that I watched Pacquiao go life and death against Erik Morales and JMM at featherweight, then KO Ricky Hatton and manhandle Miguel Cotto at 140 and 147 in the span of four years. He must have REALLY improved his natural boxing ability in that time.

[TheTeddyBear]

http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Berna...HE2USl.jpg



http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46730...tto766.jpg




It may just be me but i think his head doubled in size dieing his ascent in weight. .....

[Snoop]

(02-08-2016 03:24 PM)TheTeddyBear Wrote:  http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Berna...HE2USl.jpg



http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46730...tto766.jpg




It may just be me but i think his head doubled in size dieing his ascent in weight. .....

C'mon Teddy. He just worked out his head muscles, really really hard.

[the ollie reed fan club]

Optical illusion.

[Dickagon]

His face looks fatter.

[BrutalBodyShots]

(02-08-2016 11:13 AM)Snoop Wrote:  All I know is that I watched Pacquiao go life and death against Erik Morales and JMM at featherweight, then KO Ricky Hatton and manhandle Miguel Cotto at 140 and 147 in the span of four years. He must have REALLY improved his natural boxing ability in that time.

If you consider Pacquiao going "life and death" against Marquez at Feather that means you also consider him going life and death with him at 130-144 as well since those fights were all close and similar.

With Morales it was a close fight between a great fighter having one last great performance and a rising star just on the cusp IMO.

As for Cotto, Pacquiao had a guy in there at a weight he hadn't made in 3-4 years so chances are he had a fairly diminished Cotto in there. How much we don't know, but we must take that into consideration.

Hatton had already been knocked out by Mayweather at 147 and his unfocused, fat ass probably struggled to hit 140 himself against Pacquiao. Hatton also only fought once more following Pacquiao and got stopped again and retired which shows me how much his head was in the game for the last few years.

[Warlord]

Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Archie Moore, and Evander Holyfield all come to mind. Jones Jr. was the only other I thought of right away, but he was already mentioned.

[Spyder]

(02-08-2016 03:24 PM)TheTeddyBear Wrote:  



It may just be me but i think his head doubled in size dieing his ascent in weight. .....

Suspicious as hell...