Craziest **** ever. I watched it at a packed BWW. Once the fight ended a ton of people including my friends and I left before the decision was even announced because everyone knew Pac CLEARLY WON the fight. I didn't find out Pac lost until 3 hours later when I overheard some dudes talking about it at a bar. WTF
SMH...you MMA douchebags are so sad. Of course an MMA fan would get satisfaction out of this outcome. It says a lot about a sport that needs another sport to "die off" for it to succeed. Dana still piggybacks off boxing on big fight nights by putting on a card the same night. If we can have three different sports that uses a ball, can co-exsist, I don't see why two different combat sports can. But MMA fanboys with affliction shirts don't understand that. Even Dana ws criticizing the NSAC, which he has to deal with as well, when he does shows in Vegas. Well, many others like myself, fail to see how Bradley won that match. I thought Manny fought a complete fight. Probably his best performance since the Cotto fight. Not as explosive, but much more tactical and patient. He put on a good boxing performance. His defense was as good as I have seen it in some time. Thats why I don't get when you talk about Tim and his "punches of purpose". The accuracy was not there. He wasn't landing many clean shots, and when he did, they were non-effective. This is where compubox stats come in handy. Sometimes, because of angles, and how fast the action moves, you can't tell which punches land or not. The stats help that out. Say what you want, but there is no denying that Manny lead is just about every statistical category while throwing less punches. When Roger Mayweather, who pretty much thinks Manny sucks as a fighter, says Manny got robbed, it says something. The website paddypower is even refunding anyone who lost money betting on Manny. Even many of the so called experts who picked un upset, disagreed with the decision. But everyone has their own opinions and judges a fight differently. Just know you are in a very small percentage that thinks Bradley won the fight. Its there an overreaction because it's Pacman? Yes. Is it The worst robbery ever? No, but it's right up there with some of the best of the worst.
He's trying to save face. If he said no rematch period, I think that would be more substantial. They'll launch an investigation, and regardless of the outcome, the rematch will be played, because there will be too much money on the table not too.
That's what I figured as well. Arum isn't dumb. He knows he's catching a lot of heat, so he'll say what he thinks needs to be said to take some of the heat off. They'll launch the investigation, ultimately they'll find nothing and Arum will make a ton of money off of the rematch.
On most things I am usually under the assumption reasonable people can have differences of opinion. I dislike Pacquiao and have never rooted for him in any of the 5 fights I have seen him in, including this one. But this was box to wire domination. He didn't knock Bradley out because he didn't feel like he had to. Now boxers at the highest level are going to try to knock out thoroughly outclassed opponents for fear they will be Paquiao'ed. This might well cause some loss of life. I don't care for MMA at all...so I guess I will just do without combat sports for a while.
So much Anal frustration. Boxing fans are so sensitive. All I said was it was a good night for MMA, and you go on a rage about some random crap I don't even care about. FYI I don't watch much boxing, and don't care enough about it to like it or dislike it. But from I've heard, it's corrupt as hell, and since it's a combat sport like MMA, it was a good night for MMA from a business stand point.
Apparently the odds for the final decision for 200-1 after the fight so if What had bet he would have been a very rich man.
First off, i think its pretty funny you dont care for boxing but here you are. But whatever, lets put the boxing vs MMA crap to the side. Could you please explain that logic, intelligently? How was it good business for MMA ? Would like to hear your explanation before I give my opinion.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id...rsial-fight-manny-pacquiao-timothy-bradley-jr Also explains why Top Rank's feed was bizarrely pro-Bradley.
Sorry if posted, but it made me lol: New smilies are always fun. I prefer the smack against the wall myself.
This is absurd. That almost sounds something like "I don't look at the final score, but I saw Kobe hit 3 shots in a row in the 4th quarter, so I'm giving to the win to the Lakers".
