It illustrates the very clear narrative of that fight, which is Pac did the much more effective work.
At the end of the fight night, Thurman was dropped, had a couple bruised ribs, broke nose... and there are some considering it a draw? While Pac was unhurt on top of that? This should highlight the reality between shots that look good and shots that actually do real damage. Thurman more like looked the part but did not hurt the senior citizen, roflmao.
I believe that was round 10, but I may be wrong. Anyway, you are right, talk about a clutch shot. Pacquiao looked 5-6 years younger then he is. The fact that he put his back on the ropes and waved the bigger, stronger prime fighter in to exchange with him is mind boggling. The fact that Thurman never hurt or buckled Manny is also staggering to think about.
They do count, but for those two rounds, in fact. And the fight was twelve rounds. All in all, I think Pacquiao won, but the scores should be very close.
Thurman got put on his ass and outworked for easily at least 6 more rounds by a 40 year old man. Dude should not remind us of the fact he got exposed after holding the title to ransom for so long.