who do you think robbed pacquiao in the bradley fight ?

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  1. dealt_with

    dealt_with Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Yes, consistent jabs and body shots. On rounds Bradley won, looking at the fight as a whole you'd say Pac won. People had the ridiculous commentary and the general Pac love influence them, I think most people claiming it was a robbery probably didn't even bother to score it. I wasn't a fan of Bradley's at the time but I watched it live without commentary and had him winning more rounds, I had no inkling that it was controversial until I came on here. Pac made Bradley look like Whitaker for most of that fight, Bradley consistently chipped away and was the rightful winner imo.
     
  2. Farmboxer

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    HBO interviewed one of the criminal judges. They showed one round where Pac landed 2 punches to Bradley's one. The damned judge claiming that boxing fans do not know how to score a fight. Pac also landed the harder blows. I have noticed that that judge resigned..............

    I really think that the criminal promoters are planning on eventually making boxing WWE! I am getting tired on bad decision, and fake punch stats. Herrera is the new champion as he beat Garcia, not to mention Kotelnik beating Alexander, but was robbed, ad infinitum. Chavez/Vera I was a disgrace.............
     
  3. lester proctor

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    Here's a bunch of people that bothered to score it:

    http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Manny_Pacquiao_vs._Timothy_Bradley

    As you can see, the consensus opinion is this was not a close fight, 117-111. You got Danny Garcia and Jeff Mayweather scoring it 10-2, Floyd Sr calling it a robbery, and Bradley's pal Ward saying he'd should give back the belt. He wouldn't be saying that if he saw a close fight, or maybe he needs a lesson in boxing?
     
  4. ValentinePrince

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    As far as I'm aware the only voice with any clout in the boxing world, unconnected to Tim Bradley, who thought Bradley won is Floyd Mayweather.

    Jeff Mayweather, Floyd Sr., JMM, etc all scored it for Pacquiao.

    Seriously… what (other than Bradley and his trainer) is a comprehensive list of names in the boxing world (including commentators, pundits) who thought Bradley won it? So far I've got:

    Duane Ford
    CJ Ross
    Brian Kenny
    Floyd Mayweather
     
  5. lester proctor

    lester proctor Boxing Addict Full Member

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    there's 1 more guy in that list of 120+
     
  6. Barrera

    Barrera Defeated Boxing_master Full Member

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    i dont remember floyd giving his score for this fight ?
     
  7. ValentinePrince

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    I don't know if he's ever explicitly said his score, but he does indirectly refer to it a lot e.g. "pacquiao has lost his last two fights, pacquiao has timothy bradley problems, pacquiao has lost 2/4 of his last fights, 3/4 when you count what should have been a loss in jmm3, etc, etc" that kind of thing.
     
  8. progamer

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    pac's focus is politics not boxing.

    managing his own career means more time out politics.

    and pac's part time boxing>>>pedjr's full time. had pac breathed and lived boxing, he would have accomplished more.

    pedjr trained for boxing since fetus. bronze. fail.
     
  9. dealt_with

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    Since when is a boxers opinion of a fight any more valid than yours or mine? It's a subjective sport, and I trust my own eyes and judgement over someone who gets punched in the head for a living thank you.
     
  10. lester proctor

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    Ward doesn't get hit much though and has a high boxing iq. Regardless, if you opened the link you'd find it's mostly boxing writers, plus some fighters and trainers, scoring it 120-1, with barely any having it close. To be sure it's a subjective sport, and i find most major robberies had a few lonely dissenters: Rios over Abril, PWill over Lara, etc. Unfortunately for these number don't lie, and robberies are defined by general consensus.
     
  11. dealt_with

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    I'm not going to change my opinion simply because someone else tells me to. There's no video of Pac landing all these devastating punches in that fight because it didn't happen. As I mentioned there was a lot of bias towards Pac in that fight and preconceived notions about Bradley's punching power so it's irrelevant to me. If that same fight happened today in the exact same way I guarantee it would be closer to 50/50.
     
  12. ValentinePrince

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    And in comparison to the Pac/JMM the third, which most people on this board consider to be an egregious decision, about 40% of press scorers had it for Marquez, 35% for Pacquiao and 25% a draw.

    A non-substantial plurality had it for Marquez (and most of those with 115-113 or 116-112 cards) and that was a robbery… what is it then when the stats are 120-1-1 with many respected scorers having it as wide as 119-109?
     
  13. hussleman

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    Pacman had something to do with it. Bradley outhustled him the second half of the fight.
     
  14. rodney

    rodney Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No robbery. Commentators tried to rob Bradley. Judges got it right. Watched the fight over and over. Bradley made PAC miss over and over. Commentators were a disgrace. This time Manny takes a thorough beating. Bradley will bring the DOG out in Manny for all to see.
     
  15. Farmboxer

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    Bradley lost to Pac and everyone knows it except a few idiots.............

    There are some rumors that Void ordered the judges to score the fight for Bradley, just rumors, but there were rumors before the Scott/Wilder fake fight that Scott would make more money if he were to lose the fight. Rumors sometimes have some truth in them..............you never know in boxing...........boxing, the new WWE?