By Chris Williams: The well respected judge Jerry Roth disagrees with the swarm of people who thought that the Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley fight should have been scored in Pacquiao’s favor by a lopsided decision. Roth saw it as a very, very close fight because Pacquiao faded so badly in the second half.

Roth told ESPN radio 1100 as quotes by sportsradiointerviews.com “In the later part of the fight, he [Pacquiao] didn’t do enough…I have four of the last six rounds to Bradley…I’m completely surprised at anybody that could score the fight 11-1. I don’t know how they could have done something like that.”

Roth goes on to say to say that people are influenced by what the television analysts say about a particular fight. He prefers to turn the sound down when he watches a fight on television so he’s not influenced by the opinions of the television talking heads.

I agree completely with Mr. Roth. I always turn down the sound when I watch a boxing match on TV, because the crowd and he analysts often make it seem like one fighter is getting the better of the other, when in reality it’s often the other way around.

I watched the Pacquiao-Bradley fight once with the sound on and twice with it off. I had Bradley winning by a narrow margin with the sound on, but with it off, I had Bradley winning 8 rounds to 4. He simply out-boxed Pacquiao last Saturday and was the much higher skilled fighter.

I’m not sure what happened to Pacquiao, but he sure does seem like he’s regressed as a fighter. He’s no longer moving his legs and he stopped using his right hand. I think he may need to dump his trainer Freddie Roach, because Pacquiao shouldn’t have been working on both hands in training. You can’t send out a fighter that has forgotten how to use his right hand.