Comments Thread For: HBO Sports Poll: 91% Saw Pacquiao Defeat Tim Bradley

[lacson]

Watching last week, I was pretty much in line with everyone else feeling the fight was an outright robbery. But after watching again last night, I have kinda softened my stance. Last night, I purposely gave Bradley all the close rounds because I felt there wouldn't be many. But in doing that, I ended up with an 8-4 score for Storm. Which in my mind means that had I scored it "fairly" it would have been a drawish type fight. And in drawish type fights, a 7-5 decision either way is fine. What struck me the most last night is that the HBO crew, and myself, gave Pac too much credit for landing the "harder" shots. The reality is, he never hurt Bradley. And in exchanges, Bradley most of the time was giving as good as he was getting. I think the HBO crew and many others, including myself, assumed that since Pac was the harder puncher, his blows were have more effect on Bradley than Bradley"s on him. The truth is, neither guy othered by the other's punches. And another thing that got ignored is that when Pac would throw his flurries, he was missing a heckuva lot more than he was landing. All in all, the fight was a lot closer than I thought and I now have no issues with the decision and look forward to the rematch.

Bradley said he got hurt a few times. Pacquiao said he hurt him in every round.

[al-Xander]

Bradley vs Pac was a very close fight too take you fanboy glass's off its PAcquiao who was scare risks and was fighting the 1st 2 minutes of rounds

Pacquiao finally got sick of these "challengers". They're supposed to do what Pacman did in his youth. Pacman was mostly seen in this fight like, "Come on boy get the belt if you want it. Fight like a man."

These challengers are utter jokes.

[Bermuda]

Pacquiao finally got sick of these "challengers". They're supposed to do what Pacman did in his youth. Pacman was mostly seen in this fight like, "Come on boy get the belt if you want it. Fight like a man."

These challengers are utter jokes.

yah i noticed that ..the way pac was just hitting his gloves like "c'mon man why you running?" lol...

[PAC-BOY]

wow, 91% now thats another lopsided scoring. hehehehehe everyone knows Bradley lost. and the funnier thing is he will never ever be un shadowed by the loss to Manny and his controversial win, that everyone felt he lost. Especially after getting KOd next fight by Manny! hehehee

[jai mari078]

Just watched the fight again for the 3rd time, tryingto give Bradley rounds. I gave him 2 more than the 2 inorigionally gave him. The late rounds I gave him were more due to Pacquiaos inactivity where Bradley still didn't do much. The majority of his lunches were hitting gloves and not landing cleanly. He landed a few more in the 12th due to Manny doing nothing.

It was at best 8-4 Manny and that was trying hard to give Bradley rounds Manny was the aggressor throughout the fight and landed the cleaner more effective punches. If you didn't see that your just blind!

There is no way Bradley could have pulled out even 6 rounds. He got a gift decision bottom line! He did nothing to win that fight! Once again the majority of the world knows the truth outside of Olin HATERS and winning in that manner is actually worse for Bradley than a loss and it will follow him his entire career.

[immortal tech]

Pacquiao finally got sick of these "challengers". They're supposed to do what Pacman did in his youth. Pacman was mostly seen in this fight like, "Come on boy get the belt if you want it. Fight like a man."

These challengers are utter jokes.

you can't be serious Manny was inactive the 1st 2 minutes of most rounds because he wanted to give Bradley a chance?
I been on these boards long enough to know you can't use logic with Pacfanatics so have a nice day

[jai mari078]

Apologies for the typos

[trufightfanatic]

They should have asked how many of you had ever heard of Tim Bradley before he signed to fight Pacquaio? How many of you know what the scoring criteria is in boxing? How many of you are Bradley fans? How many of you are Pac fans? etc. etc.

[al-Xander]

yah i noticed that ..the way pac was just hitting his gloves like "c'mon man why you running?" lol...

Actually, I blame Pacquiao's corner. That Buboy guy kept saying, "Don't chase him.... stand your ground." In effect, they didn't let Pacquiao be Pacquiao. They forgot this is just Bradley, not Marquez.

[Pez]

they need to get into more detail with these polls. out of those 91%, how many had it close? coming from someone who thought the fight could have gone either way, those poll results make it look like a really bad robbery.