Manny ‘Pac Man’ is the favorite boxer of the fans?

Over the years, Boxing has had some favorites of the fans until when Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney attracted 120,557 fan of the seschictenary Philadelphia Stadium on September 23, 1926, for the heavy weight title of Dempsey.

Although Dempsey would lose the fights back to Tunney, including the revenge called “the long count” when the new rule was when a boxer demolished what he started to have to go to a neutral corner. Dempsey stood over Tunney for about 15 seconds before the count began.

Dempsey, though in defeat, was the favorite of the fans. It would not be until “The Brown Fire Bright” Joe Louis became a champion in June 1937, when he took the heavy weight title “The Cinderella Man” James Braddock for Chicago knockout. The following year, Louis took revenge on his only loss at Max Schmeling in Germany. He said “Until I beat Schmeling, I’m not a champion.”

In Yankee Stadium, this did in the first round. He was the first active champion to enter the army. Together with Louis, he was the best pound free boxer, Ray Robinson, “Sugar”, a headline of heavy and medium weight titles, another of the favorites of the fan.

Together with Robinson, there would be Henry ‘Homicide Hank’ Armstrong, who maintained heavy, heavy and lightweight weight titles at the same time. They will find when Armstrong went a little more first, with Robinson the winner.

Rocky Marciano then, the heavy weight champion behind him, ravaged the champion ‘Jersey’ Joe Walcott. The punch with which the struggle ended has been seen worldwide, as Walcott’s distorted face showed that power with Marciano ended the fight in September 1952 at the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium, in the thirteenth round, too far back in points to win a decision.

Marciano would end his career at 49-0, a record that was held until 2017, about sixty-one years, when Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather increased his record to 50-0, defeating Connor McGregor, making his debut.

Another heavy weight called Muhammad Ali would be loved and hated by many, but the best known throughout the world.

Then came a world champion of six divisions that started in Flyweight until the light of the middle weight called Manny ‘Pac Man’ Pacquiao de Philippines. He retired with a record 61-7-3 in June 1921 only to return to the ring about four years later at the age of forty-six years to obtain a tie played in July from the World WBC title, although he seemed a safe winner at the end when a majority tie was announced against champion Mario Barrios in Las Vegas in 2025.

Who is your choice as a favorite boxer of all time, if not the “Pac Man”?