I agree and I find it funny that I used your example yesterday after reading through threads with the following comment : It seems more like the main controversy comes from the fact that everyone including the pope, expected Pacquiao to blow Marquez away, and sooner than later. Then when Marquez does so much better than anticipated, the spontaneous innate reaction is to give him extra credit instead of remaining cool headed. The same thing happened in the Hopkins-Pascal fight where most hoped for Hopkins to do well but expected Pascal the young lion to retire him. When Hopkins was doing so well, he automatically got more credit coming his way... It's like a natural reaction to support the underdog in our calls, even if we try to remain unbiased.
Sorry, I didnt want to "steal" anything from you, I was fighting in this forum against everyone screaming robbery at the time, so it kind of stayed in my mind and when I see other people making thread like that, I almost want to go see what they wrote last year about the Hopkins fight!
Don't be sorry...lol I didn't write that to mean I said it before.... That's children's behavior. I just meant that I thought the same as you, and yes it was the end of the world when Hopkins didn't get the ''W'', as if anything Pascal did, wasn't counting compared to Hopkins. People instantly elected to believe that no rounds were close, etc..
Ask the Pacquiao nation if Castillo versus Mayweather fight was a close fight. You made your bed, and now you have to sleep in it.
How the hell is this possible? You had JMM up 2 rounds and yet you're saying its ok that Pac won? Its probably cause youre a Pac fan. I mean they fought THREE fights and every freakin fight its a close fight and it always goes to Pac. Its unheard of.
If we go by that then Thompson was dominating Wlad before the stoppage as he was ahead by at least 30 punches. When in fact we know that it was the opposite. Here are the punch stats from that fight: Wlad 121, Thompson 150.