Last night in the boxing world, Manny Pacquiao was handed his first defeat in fifteen bouts. Not shocking in and of itself considering the renowned Filipino’s age and diverted attention, but upsetting to most because of how it all went down.
After twelve rounds of action, even Ray Charles could’ve told you that Pacquiao deserved to take the decision over Timothy Bradley, but only one of the judges at the MGM Grand saw it that way on the night. The other two judges scored the fight in Bradley’s favor, setting off a firestorm of people crying corruption.
As the two sports tend to intersect, there were plenty of personalities from the MMA world that voiced their opinions on the funny decision. From fighters to commentators to promoters, their words were all echoes of the same message: Pacquiao was robbed. (The following were all taken from the respective parties Twitter accounts).
UFC president Dana White
Nevada state athletic commission at its finest!!! You’ve for to be (expletive) kidding me!! that is disgusting Nevada state athletic commission!! Worst athletic commission in the country!!!!!!!!!
Joe Rogan
Holy s— that was a terrible decision in the Pacquiao vs Bradley fight. Someone committed a f—ing crime.
Mike Goldberg
Another great night for the UFC!
Eddie Bravo
Tom Cruise’s decision to bang cameron Diaz in vanilla sky was brilliant compared to the Pacman decision
Cesar Gracie
Pacquiao won that! Good to see the NSAC refs exposed as the incompetent idiots they are.
Renzo Gracie
Bob Arum won that fight!
Ronda Rousey
Dude after that bs …. Not sure I’ll ever pay to watch boxing again, just so blatantly wrong I’m repulsed
Chris Leben
Worst decision in the history of boxing
Jens Pulver
I’m still speechless. I mean REALLY right now? Decisions like that is exactly the reason boxing is dying and @ufc is exploding.
Daniel Cormier
That’s actually tragic. He won that fight. Man I know we complain about mma judging but my goodness. Worst decision I’ve ever seen.
Miguel Torres
PacMan got robbed, so the world is fair after all… Wait, no its not. What bulls—.
Hector Lombard
This is been the biggest robbery in history boxing. That’s why boxing is not going to go anywhere..
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Renzo said it perfectly…Bob Arum won that fight.
No he didn’t. He may have lost the Mayweather Pac-Man fight, and, go read Arum’s comments. He was pissed. More pissed then Pacquiao was, at least publicly.
Dont fool urself. Both of his top rank fighters fought, the underdog top rank fighter won and they are going to do it all over again. Dont give two shades of sh*t of what he says ” on camera”.i promis you, he is drinkin off the top shelf and smiling like a winner…x2
@thatguy1369 agree 100%
i heard sumthin that could have been a rumor. was told that before the fight that Manny told Arum that he was going to go foward with a Maywheater fight with or without him. IF there is any truth to this it would make sense in the respect to Arum fixing the fight to ensure another payday for Himself as im pretty sure he will not have any dealings with the Money team. if not that was a hell of a rumor.
It seems that it was like a stage play. But, if I were one of the main participants, I will undergo workshop before the fight to make my acting performance more convincing. The outcome of that stage play didn’t deny the fact that Pacman dominated the fight. I’m just wondering if Bradley didn’t realize that he was being used? Or he did realize but just swallowed his pride just to be a fake winner? He actually became the laughingstock of the entire world. If I were Timothy, I would show to the world that I am an honorable man by giving the belt to pacman….the real champion.
Boxing has been dead in my eyes since the 9o’s Hell i used to know the name of every champion in boxing back then,i don’t even know how many heavtweight champions we got right now.Good ridence.
Yup, once Holyfield retired, boxing went downhill. No disrespect to the Klitchkos, but they couldn’t hold a candle to Holyfield.
Correcting mysef. The heavyweight division went downhill.
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Lol @ renzo
OMG @ Dana….I mean he is not lying, but its so funny/shocking to see the president of a major fighting org just outright crush the the biggest sports commission in his industry, and one that he deals with so ordinarily. Craziness.
I didn’t see the fight yet, but of course my knee jerk reaction is to feel the fight was fixed, somewhere, somehow, by someone. Bradley was minimum a 3.5 to 1 underdog, so someone got PAID. even having one of the judges score it close to PacMan seems to play into it, as it looks less insane compared to one of the judges having it 118-110 for Pac like most analysts did. but I wanna watch the fight before I make any final analysis myself.
Either way def the worst thing that could possibly happen to boxing. Now we may never see mayweather/pac, and even if we did, its a fraction of the fight. I guess we’ll have to see how the rematch plays out for the final judgement on that too. Still…what a clusterf**k.
Hey everyone knows the money is in the rematch
Whether Timothy Bradley knows it or not, he holds the last drop of boxing’s integrity in his hands. The rematch is going to happen and both guys are going to get paid again, so he should come out, say he lost and demand an investigation for the sake of.credibility and the future of the sport. It won’t happen, but he is in a very unique position to potentially make his mark on the future of the sport.
Honestly , we all love boxing . Even if MMA fighters are saying its dying and we say it is , then its still big . Boxing has some good fights to showcase in the next few years …. and we will all watch and bitch and complain … but … we still watch .
can’t wait for Pac – Bradley 2
Didnt get to see it. Can someone who Doesn’t like, watch it and tell me how it went?
Pacquiao won easily..I had it 10 rounds for Pacquiao & 2 rounds for Bradley
Before the start of the 12th round Pacquiao was a 100-1 favorite at my sportsbook (live wagering)..That goes to show how insane the thought of Bradley winning or being ahead was going into the final round
I had the fight 8to rounds to 4the in Pac’s favor. Doesnt matter tho…no f’n way bradley won. @five-alive posted the comp-strike numbers in thr forum section. The numbers alone should tell the tale of who one. I bet 100 out of 100 people who look at just the numbers without watching the fight would pick the numbers listed under mannys name even if they wore a blind fold. Simply unreal the outcome of that fight.
I don’t think Arum is the one who orchestrated this. Pac is worth way too much to him without that loss. Check out these quotes from him as well as the insane and disgusting fact that I didn’t know until just now (that two effing judges were over 70!!! Wtf????)
” Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters, expressed outrage about the scoring and suggested an international association of judges be formed, or age limits for judges installed. “I know this from experience,” said Arum, 80, “our attention span is less.”
Ford is 74, Roth is 71.
“Those scorecards were ridiculous,” Arum said. “Everyone near me said it’s a fun fight, Bradley’s really trying, but it’s one-sided. If we had three experienced judges doing this fight instead, all we’d be talking about is how courageous Bradley was.”
Possibly, but then again Arum(as we all know) talks alot of bs. So who knows if he’s being genuine. This smacks of Arum wanting to hype the rematch and a “superfight” between the winner of Manny/Bradley 2 and Mayweather. I trust Arum and what he says about as far as I could pick up Roy Nelson and throw him.
Not sure about that rumor, but I do feel like fixing a Pac loss would obviously knowingly be destructive towards the mega fight with money may. So if someone really didn’t want that to happen, fixing this loss and rematch would be the next best thing. And so far Arum seems like the only d*ck on the planet who didn’t want that fight. So really…who the f knows. What a black eye though for boxing. If it wasn’t already done, its just about there now.
Funny, but if this was a MMA fight, we’d all chalk this up as yet another reason why fighters should never leave a bout in the hands of the judges… I honestly think that Pacquiao showed the power and striking accuracy to put Bradley to sleep. He hurt him more than once in the fight and Bradley was on wobbly legs pretty early in the fight, but Pacquiao never went for the kill… IMO Pacman looked like a lion playing with his dinner.
One can only speculate about what the judges saw, but this would all be moot if Pacquiao performed like the 100% beast that he is… Even if he appeared to outbox Bradley to the overwhelming majority of viewers, judging is not objective by any means. He should have been preparing to decisively defeat an inferior opponent instead of delaying the fight until the end of the Celtics-Heat game- huge indicator of where his head was at on Saturday.
Or maybe Bradley deserves more credit for staying in the fight.
Actually while some are gibing Bradley 2 of those rounds, I can only give him one. Just from what I observed Saturday night…
It does seem as if the judges were punishing Pacquiao for not finishing Bradley and not stopping the fight early. In any case it’s a farce and only leads to one question:
Now What?
@vj based on your statements I don’t believe you even saw the fight
An mma decision could never be as bad as a boxing decision cuz its only 5 rounds. In a 12round fight if you think a guy won 10 of those rounds thats so much more blatant than any 5 round fight could be. Plus, correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t remember a fight where every single human on earth thought that one guy one except the judges. Usually there are at least some people who saw it both ways.
The bottom line is that one of two things MUST be true:
1. The only two people in the entire world who thought Bradley won that fight just happened to be the judges (and they also happened to be horrendous judges even though they’ve been doing it for 30 years without ever being so far off or criticized).
2. Somehow, for some reason, those 2 men agreed to lie and wrongly give the decision to Bradley.
There are no other possibilities. This is so mind boggling to me. How could it be that I’ve not heard one damn person, not even one of those biased, anti-mainstream crazy persons, say they actually thought Bradley won, yet these two judges did?
@ChrisLeslie
What do you think?