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Pacquiao continually pressed the issue with Marquez, and Marquez hardly ever was the one going forward, but Marquez was beautiful in his countering of Manny. Manny never got to get off his normal parade of punches he gets against most opponents for 12 rounds (Cotto, Hatton, Margarito). Marquez displayed how skillful he really was. In the end, it seemed like reasonable scores were 113-115 Pacquiao, 114-114, or 115-113 Marquez.Originally Posted by nYcHipHopHippo
Can someone unbiased between pac and pbf give a recap? Wasnt able to watch the fight for personal reasons but sounds like pee-drinkers only hope before the first bell rang was to KO pac and like this was legitimately an even fight.
Even with the history of the previous fights, i was expecting pac to son Marquez and honestly KO him after seeing mayweather straight up outclass him (and thats an understatement for what mayweather did to jmm)
I didn't cleanly catch the 12th, but it seemed like Pacquiao won that one, so I had it 115-113 Marquez.
It's absurd to me how one judge had it 116-112 though. That's way off.
Marquez was the more skillful boxer, but I guess Manny tagging him more, and pressing the issue for 12 rounds won him the fight.
It was neither a dominant performance by either I suppose, but to me all the middle rounds (4-
It wasn't a fight where 10 or so rounds went to one guy like in JMM/Mayweather. It was much closer than that, but I thought Marquez won, personally. I was rooting for Manny to destroy Marquez, because I felt like he should have the first two fights. But after this one, JMM showed us something special.