Hugely disappointing these kinds of decisions are still happening. To be fair I think Bradley was a little embarrassed. Landed more punches, more cleaner punches and more power punches. Just a joke all round really. Saying that and although Pacquiao clearly won, Bradley gave a good account of himself.
"Can you believe that? Unbelievable," promoter Bob Arum said. "I went over to Bradley before the decision and he said, 'I tried hard but I couldn't beat the guy.'" Says it all really, doesn't it? Corrupt as **** and they're killing their own sport.
It's funny how these dodgy decisions always seem to go in favour of the American fighter. I think all those years back to Hollyfield getting a draw against Lewis, when Lewis destroyed him. Then we had Peterson getting a ridiculous decision over Khan, and now last nights terrible decision.* The Americans are clearly bribing, or in someway influencing judges decisions, as any idiot could see that the Pac Man won that fight last night, nevermind a professional boxing scorer.* I just hope something is done about this, because any non American is at a distinct disadvantage over there*
Home fighters generally have an advantage though, not just Americans. Sven Ottke's probably the worst example that I can think of and I think Germany's actually worse than the US.
Germany definetly worse for this kind of thing, and it happens here plenty too. The americans are getting worse though as the strength of their boxing resources weaken. And they wonder why MMA is making such significant ground. I watch both but much prefer boxing, but I can see why some have switched. You don't get the stinkers you do in boxing as often, the best fight and its therefore much easier to know who the best is.
Joe Calzaghe was no fool refusing to fight in the US until the latter stages of his career, when he wanted to end on a few big pay days. That's been the rub for fighters for years; if you want the big pay days and the recognition, and you want to compete against the best, you have to go to the States, but the games blatantly corrupt over there. Even Muhammed Ali had to go outside the USA to get a fair crack at regaining his titles.
The problem is though most of the big fights are in America, so those are the ones that most of the world are watching.* I don't know much about who governs boxing, and who makes all the big decisions, but surely there needs to be something done about fighters getting a home advantage with judges. A world title fight should not be decided by bias judges, regardless of where it is held *
Boxing never has been properly regulated, despite the best efforts of the Marquis of Queensberry, and he's been dead for 200 years. Can't see it getting better any time soon.
Not the worst decision ever, but certainly right up amongst them. I had Manny ahead by a minimum of 6 rounds, possibly even 7. Absolutely disgraceful.
