Via Google Translate: Pacquiao has spoken on the issue of the fight with Hussein By TDT The camp of former senator and world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has announced that he sees nothing wrong with what retired boxing referee Carlos Padilla did in their fight with Nedal Hussein in the year 2000. In a statement, Padilla said that he made a way to ensure Pacquiao's victory and according to the former referee, at one point in the fight, Pacquiao even headbutted Hussein, causing the Australian to be injured in the face. But instead of saying that what happened was a head butt, Padilla declared that the wound was caused by a legitimate blow from Pacquiao. "If there is a butt, you stop [and tell] the judges 'headbutt, headbutt!'. That's a point deduction but if you don't do that the fight continues meaning to say it's a good clean punch," Padilla insisted. The fight reached Round 10 and Pacquiao won via technical knockout based on the score cards of the judges from Australia and Korea due to Hussein's injury. According to Pacquiao, he watched the video of his fight with Hussein again, and he thinks that Padilla did the right thing when Hussein knocked him down and he believes that Padilla also did the right thing to get Hussein's attention at that moment because it doesn't listen to the referee. "Nadal Hussein, he doesn't want to listen. He didn't want to listen to the referee, he was focused on me, he was looking at me. So, the referee really has the right to get the attention of a boxer to listen to him," explained Pacquiao. When asked if Padilla counted him correctly [fast or slow], Pacquiao said, "I just don't know if his count is correct, there is a video of it. There is a replay. So, I'm just doing my part as a boxer and I think what he did was okay." According to the Pinoy boxing icon, the video of the fight can be watched on the internet and what really happened cannot be hidden. "The referee did the right thing. I don't know why he said that," said Pacquiao. Pacquiao also maintained that it was his uppercut and not a head butt that caused Hussein's facial injury. With Hussein insisting that their fight be declared a no contest, Pacquiao believes that it is unlikely to happen. According to Quinito Henson, who acted as a sports analyst in the match, he did not remember any head butt happening. But it is said that Hussein's face became bloody during such a fight between the two. And even though the fight was reportedly stopped due to the incident caused by Hessein's bleeding face, Pacquaio still won by score. "All three judges had Pacquiao winning at the point of stoppage. At that point even if it was stopped because of a cut due to a head butt Manny still won because he was ahead in the judges score cards either way Manny deserved to win that fight," explained Henson.
Honestly, my most vivid memory of that fight is how dirty Hussein was. One of the dirtiest performances I have watched without the fighter being DQ'd. He certainly gave Manny a horrid time in that fight though.
