Pacquiao addressed the furore surrounding the result after a training session in his homeland.
'It is not cheating,' he said.
'We just got favoured because we were on our home court.
'As a boxer I just did the right thing. For me, I'm only just a boxer. I just did my job in the ring.'
A furious Hussein is now seeking justice from the WBC, asking for the bout to be ruled a no contest in a correction similar to the one the body gave his countryman Jeff Fenech, who was recently awarded a fourth world title after being robbed of a win in his 1991 fight with Azumah Nelson.
'He [Padilla] has openly admitted to cheating here - the man in charge of the fight,' Hussein told Daily Mail Australia.
'I mean, if somebody confessed to a crime 20 years later, the police would chase it up. The corruption in this sport is so bad.
'Winning that fight would have changed my life. I missed out on a couple of hundred grand and a world title fight. I would have been able to buy a house and been so much better off.'
Hussein's lawyer has already fired off legal letters to the president of the WBC Mauricio Sulaimán, but the Aussie isn't confident anything will come of it.
'They [the WBC] are the most corrupt commission in the world,' says Hussein. 'There is no respect for them in the boxing world.'
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