By Jeffrey Wenner: I have watched the fight four times from start to finish now. I do think that Manny Pacquiao won the fight against Tim Bradley last Saturday night. However, this outrage that has taken place since the decision is completely preposterous. It was a close fight, much closer than the HBO scorecard of 119-109.

I personally scored it 115-114 with one 10-10 round. I could see and argument for another round possibly two going to Pacquiao, but eleven rounds to one fight, that is ridiculous.
The reason for this entire outcry is simply because almost everyone who watched this fight listened to the HBO commentators blow up Manny all night long. They did not even give Bradley any consideration on any of the rounds. I would like to right now state my stance on CompuBox. I hate it and I think it is completely worthless when trying to score a close fight. I think the numbers were way off the mark in this fight and should not even be considered in the conversation. Now back to the topic at hand. The commentators kept talking about the punching power of Manny and how great he is. If you ask me they have long been on the bandwagon, which probably means that I should mention that I am a Pacquiao fan also. The commentators were obviously correct Bradley could not hurt Pacquiao. There was one punch landed by Bradley, I think in the third round but could be mistaken, that bothered Manny from my prospective.

Other than that nothing phased him, but consider this, yes Pacquiao’s punches were more powerful but the only time that it could be said he stunned Bradley was round four at the end of the flurry as he landed a punch square on Tim’s jaw. This was right before Bradley twisted his ankle re-treating. So in the end neither fighter really did a whole lot of damage. Like I said I have watched this fight four times, I challenge you to go back and watch it again and find it a 119-109 fight. Watch how many time the commentators and crowd go nuts saying Manny is landing when he is not. A perfect example was the flurry in round 4. Watch it in slow motion in between rounds 4 and 5. Manny landed one punch out of about 10. Yes the punch was a big one but a glaring example of how many of those so called landed punches actually missed.

The fight was much closer than people think. This doesn’t mean there was not motive or anything behind it but this is why boxers need to finish. The one thing I am certain about after seeing the fight is that Pacquiao cannot beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. It will not be the best fight to watch unless for some reason Manny goes back to his old self and punches more because boxing how he does not he may punch Floyd significantly three or four times in a twelve round fight. So, Pacquiao fans come back to reality and get over this last fight because they will fight again, Manny will win and even if the Mayweather fight was made you would be disappointed.

-JW