We here all the time that Pac won this fight he was the aggressor. He was robbed by the judge who made a scoring error. On the contrary we here all the time Marquez won this fight, he was robbed. Marquez landed the cleaner punches and showed more ring generalship. I mean you can make an argument for either case. In fact two judges seemed to smoking some crack. One had it wide for Pac. And another had it wide for Marquez. Both gave fighters rounds that were hard to see how you could do so. And then the 3rd judge had a it draw. It was one of the greatest fights ever. One of the most entertaining and thrilling fights ever. Both fighters reached into the deepest depths of their souls. Beristain yelled at Marquez after the 10th round "Did he hurt you". And Marquez couldn't even muster a meek reply. Clearly, he was breaking. Before walking back out for the 11th and 12th round Pacquiao looked up at the sky wondering how much more he could give, he didn't have much left to give. Both men were clearly trying to muster up any and all possible reserves to win the fight. Probably the last time in boxing history we've seen 2 ATG's at their absolute peak share the same ring together. I've been decidedly pro Pac won this fight by a point for years now. But in this instance there was so little to separate each fighter in that ring. And I'm coming around to that fact. The official result was a draw. And perhaps that was the most fair and just result. Pacquiao didn't deserve to win. And neither did Marquez. But both fighters didn't deserve to lose.
I thought Pac took it by 1 point, not to mention he was smaller than Marquez at the time - basically a Super Bantam fighting at Featherweight for big money fights. Marquez was a career Featherweight with some fights at Super Featherweight. The 2nd fight is my favorite because their sizes had evened out. Overall more skillful fight.
Draw they ****ed up the score card and they should have deducted a point from pac for a late punch to a clearly down Marquez
113-112 Pac for me. Marquez made an excellent comeback but he started five points behind after the second round.
Pac doesn't and has never fought dirty. He started pulling his punches against Rios and Margarito. There's simply no history of it.
I think Pac deserved the victory and actually the judging error confirms that. But JMM fought a hell of a fight so I'm not too unhappy with the result.
A close fight can produce wide cards if a judge feel a fighter is edging round after round. Way too much effort goes in to examining score cards when without knowing what the judge was thinking they mean very little
