Pacquiao & Ali are greatest boxers of all time

By Al S. Mendoza

ONLY a fool would not believe.

I mean, if there’s even one soul out there still doubting Manny Pacquiao’s stature as the world’s best boxer today, if not of all time, he is a lost soul.

Let’s all pray that he sees the light. Quick.

Haven’t you just seen him do his thing again?

It was business as usual.

And after he was done, Antonio Margarito didn’t only lose face.

He might have also lost his sanity as well with all that shameful slamming administered on him by Pacquiao. Painful.

It’s almost a habit now – and what a habit.

Pacquiao climbs the ring.

Almost immediately at the sound of the bell, he’ll jump on his prey like a hungry lion out for lunch.

While a lion buries his razor-sharp teeth mercilessly into flesh, Pacquiao digs his thunderous fists into any space deemed legal for target.

Within minutes, what’s left of a lion’s meal is a carcass of bones and skeletons.

Pacquiao would leave his in a most gory state, normally rearranging the face of his hapless victim – as in the case again of Margarito on Sunday, November 14, in faraway Arlington, Texas.

Eerily, if you would look again at his 13th straight victim since his inauspicious 2005 loss to Erik Morales, Pacquiao made a canvas out of Margarito’s face.

With his unrelenting shots, Pacquiao’s gloves were like brushstrokes painting a virtual likeness of Pacquiao out of the face of Margarito.

The only glaring error was, the right eye of Margarito was closed and swollen like a river under a heavy downpour.

The mouse under Margarito’s shuteye had grown grotesquely into a bulldog that you begin to wonder and ask:  Did I see Pacquiao’s fists turn into sledgehammers all of 12 rounds against the Mexican?

Speed and power.

Twin weapons only a Pacquiao can ever dish out with deadly consistency.

So consistent that Pacquiao has now piled up a record seven world crowns in seven weight divisions at 112 lb, 122, 126, 130, 135, 140 and 147.

As if that wasn’t enough, Pacquiao made it eight following his literal destruction of Margarito for the 154-lb world crown last Sunday.

I will stake my neck that Pacquiao’s feat will never be surpassed, let alone equaled.

Because no boxer in any era has ever owned a pair of fists so devastating, and winged feet powered by the wind, Pacquiao is the hands-down choice now as the best boxer of all time.

Only Muhammad Ali could contest that claim.

So compromise.

Ali, the first three-time world heavyweight champion, is the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, and the eight-division world champion Pacquiao the greatest non-heavyweight boxer of all time.

Fair enough, I guess.

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