According to anyone who is defending Pac, scored it a draw, or scored it to Pac by a point are saying "Marquez needed to be aggressive and charge forward to beat the champion." Huh? Since when? "Champion" means nothing. This isn't the '50's or the '70's no more. In the 21st century, we prefer that our fights be scored accurately and fairly. Blind justice is the term, and if only it were ever applied in our sport. ______ Anyway, my questions for you all would be: Does the underdog in a fight need to strategically throw everything else out the window and charge forward with relentless aggression from start to finish in order to deserve the win? Would we then stop scoring landed punches and only consider pressure and punches thrown to see who wins the fights? Are we from now on punishing every underdog who doesn't go into seek and destroy mode in the first third of the fight? Should the rules be changed so that in title fights or fights with globally marketable fighters, the underdog can achieve no better than a split decision loss if the champion makes it the full twelve conscious? After all, it's the underdogs' duty to KO him and KO him only, right? Anything short is apparently failure.
Clean effective punching and ring generalship. This "you have to take the champions title" nonsense is not a rule in boxing.
No, it's simple. He just needs to throw and land more punches than his opponent. Pacquaio outlanded Marquez in this fight across the board. FACT.
