By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s fans are going to have to understand that they’re not experts in scoring fights. That job is done by the real experts – the judges – and they’ve spoken by giving Tim Bradley a well-earned decision. Pacquiao’s complaining fans are just going to have to take the pain if seeing their hero lose, and realize that he lost the fight because he faded in the last half. Pacquiao gave it a good effort but it wasn’t good enough. The old legs couldn’t do the job and he lost.

The experts judges have scored the fight and they saw it as a win for Bradley. Pacquiao was flailing around all night long, missing Bradley by a mile with many of his shots, and looking like a fighter with bad eyesight. I don’t know what happened to Pacquiao, but he looked slower with really poor aim on his punches. His stamina was horrible, his speed off, and he never used his right hand. He looked heavy and slow.

The judges are there for a reason in the sport. They’re there to give score the fight without a bias based the action in the ring. They’re not going into fight hoping one fighter will win, so they’re not going to give a fighter credit simply because they like him.

Oh, I’m sure that Pacquiao’s fans wished that the judges would have given him the win for old time’s sake but it’s a young man’s sport, and when you an aging fighter that can’t or won’t fight for a full three minutes of every round, the judges aren’t going to give the fight to the old fighter. The judges know all the tricks that the old timers like to use, like throwing flurries in the last 30 seconds to try and win a round.

If you look at Pacquiao last Saturday, he did pretty much zero in the first 2 1/2 minutes of every round. He would then try and steal the round in the last 30 seconds with a flurry of shots. Bradley didn’t catch on to what Pacquiao was doing until the second half of the fight. That’s when Bradley started moving in the last 30 seconds to keep Pacquiao from trying to steal the round. If you look at the fight you’ll see that Bradley knew what Pacquiao was doing and he wasn’t about to let him get away with it.

This seemed to really frustrated Pacquiao, because he kept banging his gloves together to try and encourage Bradley to slug with him. Only a fool would play into that kind of trick, and Bradley was too smart.

I applaud the Nevada judges for doing expert job in scoring the Pacquiao-Bradley fight, and I’m hoping they can continue on the job for a long time to come.