MANNY PACQUIAO was called “crazy” for wanting to fight middleweight monster Gennady Golovkin.
The Filipino, who has boxed at the 147lb welterweight limit since 2011, is searching for his next opponent having targeted a return in 2020. 
And following call outs from welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr, 30, Terence Crawford, 33, as well as Mickey Garcia, also 32, PacMan’s trainer Freddie Roach named GGG as a shock contender.
It would mean moving up two weights and almost a stone to challenge the middleweight champion – something that left super-featherweight Oscar Valdez stunned.
Valdez told Fighthub: “Everybody wants to fight Pacquiao.
“Pacquiao chooses who he wants to fight. He wants to fight Golovkin, he’s crazy.
“He’s a legend. Pacquiao, he’s just a legend.”
PacMan should be warned he last time a welterweight faced Golovkin, it ended in Kell Brook’s orbital bone being broken after five rounds.
But the WBA welterweight champion, who began his career at flyweight and went on to win titles in eight divisions, is targeting an unbelievable ninth division.
He stepped up to welterweight in 2008 to beat Oscar De La Hoya in an upset and has not looked back, even if he is still capable of shrinking his body down to lightweight.
Roach told DAZN last month: “I would not advise him to go 160lbs, that would be a little crazy. But putting him at 147lbs was a risk at one time.
“People would go to me, ‘Why are you moving him up to 147lbs?’, but he was very natural at that weight, he made the weight pretty good.
“He can make 140lbs pretty easy, he can actually make 135lbs but that’s a little bit more effort.
“But to fight the biggest guys at 147lbs with the money, it made good sense to all of us to fight the great Oscar.
“It was a great deal and it worked out really well for us.”
Pacquiao, who was recently called out by UFC star Conor McGregor, has fought as high as super-welterweight, winning the WBC title against Antonio Margarito in 2010.
But the 154lb title bout was agreed at a catchweight of 150lb, with PacMan only tipping the scales at 144.6lb.
Golovkin, 38, on the other hand is a career middleweight but following a struggle to make 160lb he has been linked with a move up in weight recently.
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