Note: I legitimately mean this as an honest, friendly debate. This isn’t about who’s scared to fight who, who’s ducking who, drug testing, or the assorted trash talk. This is just about what the two biggest and best fighters in boxing today have done so far, and who you think has had the better overall career.
In a perfect world, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr would be fighting one another soon in the biggest money fight in the history of boxing. Hell, in a perfect world, they’d have already fought and probably had a big money rematch, to boot.
But this is not a perfect world. We’re still in the world where the two are endlessly compared without going head-to-head. So what can we do? Why, compare them again, of course.
Let’s take a look at what are — in my own humble opinion — the five best wins for each fighter, plus other achievements, and at the end, why, we’ll vote on who has the better record. Not who would win a fight, just who has the better record. (Like all Pacquiao polls, this will stay legit for, oh, a few hours, probably.)