Bradley decision win over Pacquiao likely to stand

By Boxing News - 06/11/2012 - Comments

Image: Bradley decision win over Pacquiao likely to standBy Chris Williams: Despite what Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is saying about him wanting an investigation done on the judges for the Tim Bradly vs. Manny Pacquiao fight last Saturday night, it’s not likely to happen. Bradley’s decision win will almost surely stand whether Arum or Pacquiao fans like it or not.

According to the LA Times, the Nevada State Athletic Commission director Keith Kizer doesn’t plan on to review the three judges nor will he discipline them for their scores for the Pacquiao-Bradley fight.

Arum was upset with the scoring of the fight and wanted an investigation, but it looks like that’s not going to happen. It looks like Pacquiao and Arum will just have to swallow the defeat and accept it, just as recent Pacquiao victim Juan Manuel Marquez had to swallow being on the receiving end up a controversial 12 round decision loss to Pacquiao last November in a fight that many fans thought Marquez should have won. He had to take the loss and move on. It looks like it’s going to be the same thing with Pacquiao. Sometimes it goes that way.

I thought the judges did a fantastic job, all three of them. I had the fight scored 115-113 for Bradley. His ring generalship was the key for him getting the decision in my eyes. He made Pacquiao miss a lot of punches, and then took over in the second half of the fight when Pacquiao stopped fighting for the full three minutes of every round. A pattern emerged in the second half where Bradley would outwork Pacquiao, but then in the last minute, Pacquiao would land several hard shots to try and steal the rounds. Pacquiao’s fans naturally forgot that Bradley had done the brunt of the work in the rounds, and felt that Pacquiao’s three or four solid blows should have given the rounds.

Sorry, it doesn’t work like this in boxing. That’s why it’s a young man’s sport. If you’ve got an aging fighter that is unable or unwilling to fight hard for the full three minutes of every round, then they’re not going to win all their fights. They’ll win some, but they’ll lose to guys that outwork them like Bradley.



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