Comments Thread For: Arum: Fight Was Very Close, I Thought Pacquiao Won

[-PBP-]

Can't get mad at a promoter protecting his investment. Hopefully he convinces some idiots to agree with him so they can generate another $400 million in a rematch.

[boxingfocus]

I don't know why I thought the drama would end after the fight happened. How naive of me.

Your boy failed to win decisively. He did "just enough" and got the eye of the judges in a close fight, against a smaller and (it seems) diminished opponent.

Mayweather's offense was paltry, despite having ALL the advantages. The harder shots landed? Pacquiao. The better defense? Pacquiao. Yet he gets no credit for the defense and gets slated for not throwing higher volume.

[Main Source]

After watching replays multiple times including in slowmo... I'm convinced Pac won a close fight by 115-113...

I think Pac won Round 3!

Mayweather throws lot's of punches mostly jobs aiming to hit air rather than Pac's face or body! That strategy was intended to prevent Pac from coming in! Many of the jobs that hit Pac face are just touches...

Mayweather may have land more punches than Pac but most of them are just touch punches! Pac throw and landed more punches with conviction!

There's something wrong with the judges judging these days!!!
They kind of look at 1 job = 1 power shot!

Take a look at Golovkin vs Monroe fight, Lederman gave one round to Monroe just because he landed 33 compared to Golovkin 30!
I thought Golovkin won all rounds! I thought GGG punches where the more devastating and inflict more damage even in that close round!

I feel that in order for Pac to win a round he needs to do more than Mayweather!
Or win big... likes Round 4 & 6! It's wasn't a fair judging!

Pac did a great job defensively even when he was the aggressor!
Mayweather hitting AIR BIG with his hard right hand counters all night!

You can write it in bold, you can write it in CAPS-LOCK, you can write it with your menstrual blood and you can call me collect with your BS.

Fact of the matter is Manny Pacquiao is #48. He lost. Get over it.

[cameltoe]

My prophetic predictions came true again, I said it would be a very close fight and the fans of either winner would claim shut out.

I'm the most accurate predictor of fights on this board, my only wrong prediction was when Groves sacked his great coach and didn't stick to the gameplan and do the exercises that made him great in the first Froch fight.

Pac fans aren't claiming shut out, the best they can score it is 115-113.

Groves lost the first Froch fight as well, by TKO. And he sacked his coach before both the fights, not in between.

[Left Hook Tua]

It's getting boring now. Team Pacquiao should stop mentioning the fight as anyone who re-watches will realise how poor and ineffective he really was.

pac did better than i thought rewatching a 2nd time.

[damned1974]

LOL-Arum says he felt Pac won, then said he thought if the close rounds were given to Pac it could be a draw!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like they are confused! What he is saying is that even if the judges were biased towards Pac, he STILL wouldn't have beat Mayweather-hahahaha

[slimshandy69]

I scored it a draw, terrible fight...dont want to hear about it agan and both should retire...

[big_james10]

Thirty-two lawsuits and counting!

Bob Arum is now starting his PR campaign to redeem himself and Pacquaio after dealing with a sh.tstorm of hatred and criticism from social media, boxing journalists and officials.

Bob and Pac should have simply said at the press conference that they thought he won the fight and left it at that. Instead, they chose to create a fake injury and have a shoulder scope that they tried to pass off as a rotator cuff surgery.

Not even Olivia Pope can dig Bob and Pac out of the hole that they have dug for themselves.

Arum is now going to have to spend the majority of that 27 percent of Pac's purse that he took defending himself against lawsuits.

[big_james10]

Can't get mad at a promoter protecting his investment. Hopefully he convinces some idiots to agree with him so they can generate another $400 million in a rematch.

Arum is not thinking about a rematch. He is trying to defend himself against all the lawsuits and trying to convince 400,000 people to buy Pacquaio's comeback fight in November 2015 after his miraculous recovery from rotator cuff surgery.

[littlemac]

pac did better than i thought rewatching a 2nd time.

Maybe after watching it a few more times you might see Manny winning by KO. You ***@t a$$ pac fans are a joke.