{"id":611050,"date":"2026-05-29T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:03:08","slug":"manny-pacquiao-names-his-top-5-fighters-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611050\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao names his top 5 fighters of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has revealed who he deems to be his top five fighters of all time.<\/p>\n

His ultimate favourite went to Roy Jones Jr, and on one hand, it is easy to see why \u2018Pac Man\u2019, like so many others, idolises a pound-for-pound legend who could turn on a sixpence like no other boxer.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 overall style, however, was vastly different to that of the Filipino, who is known more for his quick bursts than relying on razor-sharp reflexes.<\/p>\n

In that sense, Pacquiao\u2019s style could perhaps be likened to that of a typical Mexican, specifically when considering his aggression on the front foot.<\/p>\n

It should not come as a surprise, then, that Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De La Hoya happen to be two of his other favourite fighters.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao did, of course, stop De La Hoya in round eight<\/a> of their 2008 encounter, only this came at a time when the \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 was both weight drained and past his prime.<\/p>\n

As for his other two favourite fighters, it may come as a surprise that he named Sugar Ray Leonard who, again, had tremendous speed but employed a drastically different style to that of Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

Finally, the 47-year-old tells Vibe<\/a> that former two-weight world champion Ricardo Lopez<\/a>, who campaigned at minimum and light-flyweight, before retiring with an unbeaten record, is another of his all-time favourites.<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked Sugar Ray Leonard and Julio Cesar Chavez. Roy Jones Jr \u2013 that\u2019s my favourite. Oscar De La Hoya. Those are fighters that I liked to watch. Also, there\u2019s a small guy, a [lower-division champion] like [Ricardo] Lopez.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacquiao\u2019s list of legends \u2013 perhaps excluding Lopez \u2013 could quite easily be applied to almost any fighter who rattles off their selection of all-time favourites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has revealed who he deems to be his top five fighters of all time. His ultimate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}