Excellent win - they should ban the judge who scored it in favour (thought we were British here?) of Thurman.
A great win for Pacquiao. All things considered with him being aged 40 and up against a highly regarded, younger and undefeated champion, this is one of the best wins of his career. It would be a perfect fight to retire on. However, knowing boxing, his career will probably end next time he gets knocked out! I had to wake up at 3.30am with the missus for this, so I personally feel that I have a dog in this fight. The rogue judge, Feldman, actually only scored the last round differently to his colleagues. In the other rounds, he was always in agreement with at least one of the other judges. Hard to score rounds are often called in favour of the champ, and there were a few in which could have been argued either way. I thought all judges, not just Feldman, got the fight a bit wrong.
You say that, but if you check the score cards below, every one of his rounds bar the twelfth was the same score as at least one other judge.
Manny wants the Mayweather rematch before he retires. Just my opinion but I reckon those two have a direct line of communication.
Interesting - we just watched it again and I was surprised how many punches Thurman was given compared to Pacquiao - it seems like Manny throws more but far less count as a hit... maybe a computer thing. My wife was hopping up and down about it - how come every punch Thurman throws counts once or twice but some of Pacquiaos hits are totally ignored... boxing eh... Then you look at the cards ... close fight Then you listen to all the comments from ex-fighters... split decision! Crazy! Manny boxed him all over the place etc. Floyd Mayweather said "We all thought Thurman was the man right...? ...and look what Manny did to him!"
