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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18551754
The hilarious decision re-looked at.
Can scream Marquez all day but fact is this fight was as one sided as they come.
Hopefully Bradley thinks he is unstoppable and climbs into the ring with Mayweather.
Simple fact: Manny can not and will not beat Floyd Mayweather, Nor will Tim Bradley or anyone else for that matter.
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It was as one sided as they come in 1 minute of each 3 minute rounds.
In the other 2 minutes Pacquiao did nothing to deserve winning the rounds.
Sorry but Manny has no one but himself to blame for that decision. You can't do nothing for 2 minutes a round and then cry when you don't get a decision based on the last 1/3 of the round.
For too long boxers have been getting decisions for ending rounds strong over fighters that fought the entire round. I'm glad to see it go the other way.
That "review" is *******s btw, boxing isn't scored on number of punches landed as measured by compubox. It's scored on effective aggression, defence, ring generalship and clean hard punching. Effective aggression and ring generalship are hard things to sell when you're only turning up for 1/3 of the fight.
Compubox stats are useless when it comes to deciding who won a fight because their punches "landed" aren't all clean, they count anything that lands on the opponent, even if it's deflected or blocked. And their "power punches" are just types of punches, they don't really measure if the punches actually had any power behind them or if the other guy was at all hurt my them.
I'm not saying the judges did a good job though, I thought Manny won, no where near as wide as the likes of HBO scored it, but it wasn't as one sided as many people would have you believe. Many people who like HBO think you can sit off for 2/3rds of a fight and walk to a decision based on ending rounds strongly. You can't, you shouldn't, and whilst the decision may be "bad for boxing" in many ways it was right for boxing because at least now boxers might actually go into the ring thinking they actually have to, you know, box?