Horn fought his ass off. That fight was amazing. That shitty 117-111 card will overshadow a great fight
Did I imagine this is or did Atlas address Tessitore as Joe before correcting himself and saying "Jim", which is wrong?
Horn fought hard but Manny won the fight. The end of the day he didn't knock out the champ or even knock him down. He barely hurt him. Getting hard to defend boxing anymore.
I'm pretty drunk but I think I just saw Joe Tess calling an outdoor boxing match in Australia. There is no God.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 7th round were all very close. I had Horn winning 3 of the first 4. Horn was tired as fuck in the 9th but I don't know that Pac landed anything that merited a 10-8 round Pac 9 10* 9** 9 10 9 10* 10 10 9 10 9 // 114 Horn 10 9 10 10 9 10 9 9 9 10 9 10 // 114 *close **very close
Look at the two fighters and tell me who won. The disrespect Manny has gotten is unreal. Why is he even standing next to this guy?
Judging by the number of people in this thread tonight for a ESPN fight that started after midnight, I disagree.
Your average fan doesn't take the sport seriously anymore and putting this on basic cable doesn't help things whatsoever, that was laughable.
It was a "bad" decision, not a "horrible" one. Close fight decided by old people that probably never boxed.
And yet they'll be back next time. That's how boxing is. Not the first time or the last time we'll get wacky cards after a big fight.
Pac is not the fighter he used to be but it worked out great in this fight. Horn was ultra competitive.
Glad to know hooking and headbutting along with only landing 15% of your punches wins a belt nowadays, checking out of the thread again
Yeah the ref was complete ass. Only good thing he did was let the kid know it was getting stopped if he didn't put up a fight in the 10th. That said, Paq started way too slow. Those first four rounds really bit him in the ass in the end.
They should calculate the punching stats as a 4th Judge or something. I'm assuming the judges don't get stats to consider.
Steve Levy asks if this happens if the fight is somewhere else besides Australia. Shit, put this fight in Texas with that commission, who knows. Might have awarded the fight to Teddy Atlas.
i always thought the best solution would be 5 judges 1 on each side of the ring + 1 watching a HD feed from the cameras with no commentary
I am totally fucking shocked when a non-ppv boxing match outside of Vegas ends with the overwhelming favorite losing. I mean, what does a failing sport have to gain by an underdog winning a poor decision and somehow getting people who don't give a flying fuck about boxing to pay attention. I just don't understand it. What do I know.
Plenty of PPV matches in Vegas end with shitty decisions too. If Top Rank were going to sacrifice Manny Pacquiao, they would've had him fight Terence Crawford, not a fucking substitute teacher from Australia.