Pacquiao. Pacquiao had almost no facial damage. Roidquez's face was busted up. If Roidquez landed all these clean, effective bombs, Pacquiao's face would have been all messed up.
I still remember people on here picking Pac to stop Marquez in less than 5 because of Pac that was some sort of "beast " at that weight Lol.
That's a pretty sad video for backing pac in that fight. That video showed all the best pac landed shots and there's very few of them. He'll, the creator couldn't even find a cleanly landed single shot by pac in each round. Jmm bested pac in the 3rd fight more clearly than the 4th, for me. He beat pac up consistently over 12 rounds while the 4th was a very even war that could've ended at any time for either fighter. You can't argue the KO but the first 3 fights clearly showed H2H jmm is too much and all wrong for pac. Pac fans are so hurt from this fight, the fmj fight and the only one pac has a real argument in the first Bradley fight. It's obvious just by the poll, pac has cult fans with dozens if alts for every single one fan. It should be impossible for pac to not dominate every poll with him or fmj in them. When a pac poll is close then he clearly lost whatever argument is being made
I recall watching the British feed. It seemed so clear that Marquez won that fight. Khan was commentating, if memory serves. That whole panel had Marquez winning. Then I saw the HBO feed. So biased. They were not giving Marquez full credit for the better, cleaner work in most rounds. Probably Roy was. Forget if he was commentatting that night. But Jimmy "Bang Bang" Lampley seems to fall under the Mama Pacquiao JuJu whenever Manny fights. He can't see anyone else's work except Manny's. I guess that pre-fight head from Mama Pacquiao must be DA BOMB. It was a competitive fight. But, Marquez outboxed Manny. I had it like 8-4, if I recall. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
You can make a case with the knockdowns and Pacquiao's aggression that he deserved the first and possibly the second, but he was dominated and schooled in the third. I had it 9-3, and felt I was being kind to Pac. That should have been Marquez's career-defining win. Marquez controlled the pace and distance, did what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it, and had Pac walking into clean punches that had him clueless over and over again. I've watched that fight a good twenty times. It's one of my favourite boxing masterclasses to watch, and it certainly didn't become closer the more I watched it.