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By Jake Donovan - Manny Pacquiao vowed to not enter the ring until his beloved Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat were done with Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals, to the point of delaying the start time of his fight with Tim Bradley by more than 30 minutes.
An hour after watching the Celtics’ season end, Pacquaio saw his own evening suffer a similar fate.
Unlike the game that put the Miami Heat back in the NBA Finals, Pacquiao’s fall was mired in controversy. The Filipino superstar landed on the wrong end of a controversial split decision loss to Tim Bradley in their HBO PPV headliner Saturday evening at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Major outrage followed the final verdict, but who was actually winning the rounds came down to preference. Bradley admittedly gave away too many moments in the opening rounds, as his best sequences were often met with straight left hands from the longtime pound-for-pound entrant. One such shot put Bradley on his heels late in the first, though he believes its damage was overstated. [Click Here To Read More]
An hour after watching the Celtics’ season end, Pacquaio saw his own evening suffer a similar fate.
Unlike the game that put the Miami Heat back in the NBA Finals, Pacquiao’s fall was mired in controversy. The Filipino superstar landed on the wrong end of a controversial split decision loss to Tim Bradley in their HBO PPV headliner Saturday evening at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Major outrage followed the final verdict, but who was actually winning the rounds came down to preference. Bradley admittedly gave away too many moments in the opening rounds, as his best sequences were often met with straight left hands from the longtime pound-for-pound entrant. One such shot put Bradley on his heels late in the first, though he believes its damage was overstated. [Click Here To Read More]
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