Don’t see much of a case for the jr featherweight claim if one is trying to pass along the featherweight claim with the backing of Ring Magazine, as, very shortly after Pacquiao beat Ledwaba (#2 rated contender behind Bones Adams according to the Sept 2001 issue of the Ring), Paulie Ayala defeated Adams for Ring Magazine honours for that division while Pacquiao was still fighting at the weight.

With the benefit of hindsight at our disposal, we might be able to dispute the magazine’s selection there. But there was also still enough there to dispute any claim Pacquiao had as “the man” in the division at the time.

The bout at lightweight and the bout this past weekend with Cotto? These are only “world championship” fights to the sanctioning bodies (with the help of network television, no doubt, who allowed them to get their claws/influence in the sport) who put them on and also to those brainwashed by the ABC groups in their continuous attempts to contradict the factual definition of the term “world champion”. Anybody can look it up the definition of the word “champion” and see that it’s very singular with it’s definition. We also live in a singular world I do believe, although sometimes our thoughts may conflict with that fact. One weight division in this one world we live in? There can only be one “champion” for it. Definitely not four. Certainly not three. Not even two. Just one. And in the absence of one, by definition, there is in fact none. As is the case with Pacquaio at 122, where I’m not convinced at all that he was at the time “one acknowledged to be better than all the others”.

These titles are not handed to another boxer in a silver plate.