Pacquia-Bradley: WTF were the judges smoking?

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by carrigansghost

Where did boxing go wrong?

IMO, making it pay-per-view is a major factor. How can you build a fan base if the only way to know it exists is to first pay for it? Put it on cable or over-the-air and I think it would spark more interest.

[GoldenAge50s]

Not going to lie...the results were probably fixed.


If there was a fix, don't you suppose it would surely have gone the other way? 99% of the time bad decisions go w/ the Champ or the more popular fighter.

Manny is a big draw---Why would they want to knock him down?

I don't understand it & can't wait to see & score the fight myself.

[travrosty]

most people from espn, hbo, elsewhere unofiicially scored the fight 9 or 10 rounds for manny, some even gave him 11 rounds.

I could even see 8 rounds, but even 7 for manny and 5 for bradley like the one judge scored it is pushing it tremendously, but for someone to give bradley 7 rounds and pacquiao only 5 is really smoking something. I hate the way boxing operates when things like this happen.

[majordanby]

until manny and floyd fight and boxing gets rid of promoters (both issues are not mutually exclusive), i simply cannot take boxing too seriously.

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

Not going to lie...the results were probably fixed.


If there was a fix, don't you suppose it would surely have gone the other way? 99% of the time bad decisions go w/ the Champ or the more popular fighter.

Manny is a big draw---Why would they want to knock him down?

I don't understand it & can't wait to see & score the fight myself.

It's not an NBA fix as in having the team which will be better financially for the league win. You bet lots of money or do a million other things which will result in higher profits at +360 (for Bradley) than -450 (for Pacquaio). Sure, without the gambling aspect, Pacquaio would be better. With it? No way.

[travrosty]

I think we should go back to newspaper decisions.