Just watched all 3 again with my son & i've got Pac the def winner in the 1st & thats after 5 times of watching it these last few months & it's a def that JMM won the 2nd, that was a horrible decision. But watching the 3rd fight live near ringside at the MGM i like everyone else thought that JMM had it by a couple of rounds. But after watching this on disc 6 times now it's def a pac win for me 7/5, this was a fight that JMM blew big time, he just did'nt put enough into some of those rounds that Pac got. JMM won his rounds clear but i just feel he let it slip by no doubt all due to being a tad too cautious in not wanting to be KO'd if he piled into pac late on. I recken the fight was his to win & he let it pass him by. Watching it live is a whole different ball-game as what shots JMM threw i thought connected actually missed once i'd watched it on dvd but what with the crowd being 75% mex you'd think that the way the crowd was a howling JMM was pissing the fight, not so on reflection. Pac or a draw for me but not a JMM victory.
I had £550 on Pac and before hand i was thinking it was like printing money. But after the first round i thought 'bollocks' lol I thought Marquez won about 9-3 maybe 8-4 However as soon as Buffer said 114-114 i knew they were gonna give it to Pac. There were too many factors for Marquez to get it. Big name, Arums show, big money fights in the future, Floyd Mayweather and possibilties of back handers to judges and officials etc. Needless to say my arse was flapping when they read the scores and i was very happy to win about £1000.
Neither is the official result, sadly. :!: Pacquiao will forever be up 2-0-1 as a matter of record to the man to whom he rightfully lost three times. Don't believe that Arum will ever allow Part IV to give JMM a chance to alter that. Even just one official win for Marquez would mean a lot to honest boxing fans the world over (not just fans of Marquez), yet we'll never get to see it.
9 to 3 first viewing for Marquez, can see 9 - 3 or 8 - 4 Marquez after 5 or so more viewings. If you really want to stretch the reality of what happened and you want to be extremely generous to Pac i can see 7 - 5 for JMM. A draw or a decision towards Pac is just having no idea whatsoever how to score boxing and you might as well start watching mma instead. This poll which is a rediculously pro Pac website just shows how lobsided it really was. "Arum: It was a business decision" should be shot, heartbreaking to see how they robbed JMM.
Yeh it sucks, when you think about it. This third fight was the clearest out of the lot, and yet pac still gets the verdict. I honestly think if it wasn't for the mega mayweather fight looming over our heads, marquez would have got his just rewards.
Well yeah. It's all consistent with protecting the guy from a loss. Protecting Pacquiao from a loss to Marquez is a simple matter of putting crooked judges in place. (Marquez probably isn't ever stopping Pacquiao inside schedule, if they fought a hundred times) Protecting Pacquiao from a loss to Mayweather is a simple matter of not allowing them in the ring together, ever. (Pacquiao probably isn't ever lasting the distance with Mayweather, if they fought a hundred times)