Manny was a boxing star at the lower weights. He became a mainstream star after he beat Oscar, and maintained that success by continuing his career at the WW division, a more popular/money division.
You don’t make the kind of purses many made and have the type of Ppv just by attaching your name to Floyd.
I agree he was a megastar, after he fought Oscar(a mega star) and they had been teasing a Floyd fight. I remember bro, Pac was great sub 135 bruh, but to make it out like he was some huge box office draw even after beating Barrera, fighting Morales, and Marquez is a bold face lie bruh, Manny wasn't some big crossover star until after the Oscar fight, and that was a fight in the(what ended up being WAAAY to fukking long) buildup to a Mayweather fight cause Floyd had already fought him the year before.
I aint diminishing his in ring accomplishments at all, he is an ATG, but don't make it out like Pac fights was the talk of the town before like 2007 or 8 because they weren't.
I don't even stan Mayweather, I feel like he was a blessing and a curse on boxing, but if in ring accomplishments is all it was about Pac should have heen the bigger name and he wasn't, because at that time(2003) Pac had arguably accomplished more than him.