Quote Originally Posted by ross View Post
Quote Originally Posted by arcanum26 View Post
Came up on a site that I think provides a good analysis of the fight scores - judges and press row. I suggest you guys check it out. Quite a good read.

Pacquiao-Bradley: A second viewing with round by round judges cards, round by round press row cards and round by round compubox stats | Michael D. Sellers
I wouldnt pay any attention to press row scores. They arent qualified judges and have likely never even trained to be a judge, which would be a good idea so they could try and give their readers an educated view rather than just their biased opinion. Also, its pro boxing not amateur, so compubox punch stats means nothing. Did you realise that any other punch than a jab is counted as a power punch?
Thing is, Compubox scores for this fight was tremendously in favor of Pac. If it was closer then you can make a case how Compubox is totally erroneous but when you have qualified individuals (I'm assuming you'd need some qualifications to be able to score punches for Compubox) seeing one fighter out landing his opponent by an almost 2 to 1 margin, then it's quite possible that my assessment and most everyone else's are right in that Manny did out point Tim.

Also, I tend to respect media/press row scores as I'm aware that they've been fans of the sport far longer than myself and most everyone else. Otherwise, why would they be there in the first place?