By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan worked the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Manny Pacquiao fight as a commentator for Primetime PPV, and Khan shockingly saw Marquez as the winner in this fight, picking him as the victor over Khan’s good friend Pacquiao. That kind of tells you something when you’ve got Khan seeing Pacquiao as having lost this fight, as Khan has never saw Pacquiao losing in the past.
Khan noted that Pacquiao was completely unequipped to deal with Marquez’s style tonight and never made the needed adjustments for him to have rightfully deserved the 12 round majority decision that the judges awarded him. I personally agree with Khan in this case, as I had Marquez winning the fight by an 8 rounds to 4 score. Pacquiao wasn’t able to put his punches together and had to be content with landing only one shot at at time – mostly lefts – compared to the many combinations he was getting nailed with by Marquez.
Pacquiao’s right hand was a non factor in this fight and it was like he was the same one-handed fighter that fought Marquez in the first two fights. Freddie Roach, his trainer, did a great job of teaching Pacquiao how to throw a right hand, but he wasn’t throwing rights in this fight for some reason. Marquez shut that weapon down completely.
Pacquiao was booed long and hard after the fight by the MGM crowd. The booing really unnerved Pacquiao, because he didn’t look at all comfortable with the constant booing while being interviewed by Max Kellerman from HBO.
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