By Ponciano Melo – No contender in history has won world titles in more weight classes than Manny Pacquiao. The Filipino legend has done it in eight divisions, an exceptional accomplishment for a warrior who turned expert at 106 pounds in 1995, won his first title at 112 pounds in 1998 and in the end won a 154-pound belt (despite the fact that he weighed just 144.6 for the battle) in 2010.
Pacquiao might have won titles in 10
of boxing\’s 17 weight classes yet he never crusaded at junior bantamweight or
bantamweight. Rather he skirted them and won his second title at junior
featherweight.
VsChatchaiSasakul
The title run started against
Sasakul, who had beaten the very much regarded Yuri Arbachakov for the belt (and
lineal title) 13 months sooner and was making his third protection against
Pacquiao, 23-1 at the time yet not that even well known at this point in the
Philippines. This was a youthful, wild Pacquiao whose force was a lot for
Sasakul. Pacquiao, down on each of the three scorecards (70-64, 69-64, 68-65),
spread Sasakul out for a few minutes with a breaking left hand that remains his
calling card.
VsLehloLedwaba
Pacquiao was essentially obscure
when he took the battle with Ledwaba (on the De La Hoya-Javier Castillejo HBO
PPV undercard) on around three weeks\’ notification instead of harmed Enrique
Sanchez. Pacquiao was a disclosure as he amassed Ledwaba, thought about the No.
1 junior featherweight at that point and a person I was extremely high on. However,
Pacquiao just obliterated him, breaking his nose in the first round and
dropping him in the second and 6th. Pacquiao got everyone\’s attention. Leaving
ringside that evening I believed that this person could be extraordinary.
Vs Marco Antonio Barrera
Pacquiao moved into another weight
class to take on Barrera, the lineal boss and a tip top pound-for-pound warrior
amidst an extraordinary pursue beating NaseemHamed to guarantee the genealogy.
Pacquiao, the dark horse, followed Barrera like a tempest, dropping him in the
third and eleventh rounds before Barrera\’s corner quit, leaving him and most
every other person paralyzed by Pacquiao\’s extraordinary control. This is the
battle where the Pacquiao legend was conceived.