Ring Magazine: Pacquiao is ‘Greatest Fighter of the Decade’
Manny Pacquiao is indeed the “Greatest Fighter of the Decade” and no less than the “Bible of Boxing” has confirmed this.
The Ring Magazine has ranked Pacquiao as the greatest in 2000s, placing him among the best fighters in the past 10 decades including “Hammerin’” Henry Armstrong, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali and “Sugar” Ray Leonard.
The “Greatest” list was compiled by Ring Magazine’s Michael Rosenthal, who ranked former top pound-for-pound fighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. as a mere second placer.
“Sorry Floyd but you need to fight the best to be the best,” Rosenthal said in his accompanying comment.
Apart from being named as this decade’s greatest, Pacquiao already held Ring Magazine titles for featherweight and super featherweight divisions.
After beating British superstar Ricky Hatton on May 2, Pacquiao went home with the International Boxing Organization (IBO) title plus another Ring Magazine crown in the welterweight division.
He is also the first boxer to win the lineal championship (“the man who beat the man”) in four different weight classes.
Before winning the IBO title, Pacquiao has won the World Boxing Council lightweight, WBC super featherweight, IBF super bantamweight, and WBC flyweight titles.
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