Re: Pacquiao/Bradley - a counterpoint
Hi Ecolibri,
Yes, I'm saying I can't understand the hysteria.
I think the boxing media are manipulating people into thinking this was a more one-sided fight than what it really was, starting with Jim Lampley and the HBO crew.
It's funny, but people I've spoken to who watched the fight in countries that took the international feed, the feed where Brian Kenny did the commentary, have nowhere near such a visceral response to the decision.
Dan Rafael of ESPN scored the bout 119-111 to Pacquiao. Now, the way I see it that is as far away from the actual result as the judges who scored it for Bradley were!!
He didn't even give Bradley round 10, which is flat-out ridiculous - proving my point that these guys, whose opinions carry a lot of weight, watch Pacquiao through rose-coloured glasses, seeing only the good things he does and not the good work of the other guy.
I scored the bout 115-113 for Pacquiao, I think he was unlucky not to win. But this was not, in my opinion, a robbery. He had the ascendancy in the middle rounds, and I thought Bradley was going to quit at a couple of points when he looked completely despondent in the corner.
Then Pacquiao eased off, took his foot off the pedal.
That's the way I see it - I saw the fight for Pacquaio, but it was a close fight, so much closer than the majority of the boxing press - ESPECIALLY the boxing press who are prevalent on social media, are making it out to be.
I saw the fight the way I saw it, and I'll continue to believe in my own skills of analysing a fight.
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