By Chris Williams: In what may be little more than posturing by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, he wants the two judges that scored the fight for Timothy Bradley over his cash cow fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to be investigated.

This in turn leaves the proposed November 10th rematch between Pacquiao and Bradley up in air, despite the fact that Pacquiao already laid the law down to Arum by saying he wants the rematch.

Arum told Yahoo Sports writer Kevin Iole “I want to investigate whether there was any undue influence, whether the [Nevada Athletic Commission] gave any particular instruction and how they came to the conclusion…There needs to be an independent investigation because it strains credibility that an event everybody saw as so one-sided one way all three judges saw it as close.”

I think Arum is kidding himself if he thinks this gesture of asking for an investigation will go anywhere. It won’t. The judges did their job, and the fact that all three of them saw it as a close fight suggests that they did a fine job of scoring the rounds properly by noting that Bradley took control over the fight in the second half of the fight, showing much superior ring generalship against a one-armed pot shot fighter in Pacquiao.

All Pacquiao was doing was throwing left hands all night, and he really faded badly in the second half of the fight, especially during the tail end. Bradley’s body shots seemed to wear him down, and when Bradley started to use movement, Pacquiao was out of his league. Pacquiao didn’t have the wheels that he needed to get around the ring. Supposedly, his legs where in great shape, but he looked to be as awful as he did in his worst bouts against Joshua Clottey, Juan Manuel Marquez and Antonio Margarito.

There’s either some dead nerve tissue in Pacquiao’s legs or he’s too heavy to hop around like he used to. I think it’s age. You start losing fast twitch nerve fiber in your 20s and it rapidly goes downhill from there. For some fighters, they can keep enough to continue to have success late in their career, but for others, they’re pretty much shot as soon as they reach their early 30s.

Pacquiao is 33, and his legs weren’t there last night, and in the last four rounds of the fight, Pacquiao looked exhausted, and wasn’t even throwing punches. Arum can’t expect the judges to be stupid enough to give Pacquiao rounds simply because the crowd was screaming their bloody heads off each time Pacquiao missed by a mile with one his punches, and he was missing like crazy. Turn down the volume and try watching the fight, and you’ll see Pacquiao flailing around, fighting with no balance, no stamina, without legs.

I think Arum is just going this to make himself look good in front of Pacquiao, to show that he’s up in arms and trying to get his loss investigated. Believe me, nothing is going to come of this. Pacquiao will have to swallow the loss, take the pain and realize that he’s feeling what Juan Manuel Marquez felt in his three prior fights with Pacquiao. You can argue that Pacquiao came close to winning none of those fights. I had him losing all three, yet he was given wins in two of them.