By Mark Uliano: Last night, we as boxing fans witnessed once again that the majority of the Athletic Commissions in the country need to reevaluate their judges for championship bouts.

The decision last night is another in a long line of controversial decisions in the last year that has boxing writers and experts collectively shaking their heads. Many writers, boxers and promoters that I have read statements from and talked to seem to be in agreement that the result from last night is yet another black eye for the sport of boxing.

I had the fight scored 116-112 for Pacquiao and believe it was evidently clear, based on my own two eyes and CompuBox punch stats, that Manny Pacquiao should have won the fight. The stats showed that not only did Pacquiao land at a higher rate than Bradley, 34% to 19%, but he also connected more than Bradley at 253 punches to 159. It seemed to me like Pacquiao would take the first minute and a half to two minutes off and then would begin to pressure and take the fight to Bradley with fast flurries and straight lefts, similar to the way Sugar Ray Leonard fought Marvin Hagler in 1987. The difference here being that Bradley has nowhere near the power that Hagler had. Emmanuel Steward stated during the fight that Pacquiao had no respect for Bradley’s power and that was evident in the middle rounds. Pacquiao decided to stand toe-to-toe with Bradley and had him hurt in the middle rounds with left uppercuts and straight lefts. Pacquiao seemed to land at will against Bradley with the left but wasn’t able to follow through with powerful combinations. Never have I seen a championship fight go the distance and one of the fighters have not a bruise on his face, as was the case with Pacquiao. Bradley did seem to pick up the tempo in the last four rounds winning the last three rounds on my scorecard but danced around way too much trying to stay away from Manny’s power in the early rounds. Bradley said during his post fight interview with Max Kellerman that he hurt his ankle when it was stepped on, but the video that followed shortly after clearly showed there was no tangle of feet or Manny stepping on his foot that brought about his injury. Bradley showed great footwork getting away from Pacquiao’s punches, but I feel that he should have sat down and tried to bang more with Pacquiao.

With both fighters being Top Rank fighters, Bob Arum will put the rematch together for the tentatively pre-scheduled date in November, as long as Bradley’s feet will be healed by then. Could this be a promotional fix by Top Rank to get more money out of a rematch? With no one left for Manny Pacquiao to fight had he beat Tim Bradley, it looks like Top Rank Promotions may want to maximize their profits with a rematch. I don’t see Pacquiao leaving it to the judges in a rematch and with no power from Bradley; I can see a middle round stoppage for Pacquiao.

In closing I think the NSAC should be ashamed with themselves in regards to the judges that they picked for last night’s WBO title fight. When the majority of the boxing public feels that a fighter was robbed, a red flag should be waved. I was brought up with the saying, “In order to be the champion you have to beat the champion,” and last night I didn’t see Tim Bradley beat Manny Pacquiao.