Posted on 06/09/2012 11:04:47 PM PDT by Beave Meister
"The Associated Press had Pacquiao winning 117-111."
I work the phones for a major cable company in Texas. That’s all I did for the last 6 hours of my shift. People ordering PPV or people having trouble with PPV. There was not one single person that called in with anything else.
I look forward to the day that Floyd Mayweather gets his foul mouth shut but that statement above is just wrong. While Ortiz had some moments, two of the three official scorecards had Mayweather pitching a shutout as did most ringside observers.
Mayweather did not technically hit Ortiz on a break. The referee had stopped the action to deduct a point from Ortiz for a head butt (the most blatant I've seen in years) and had ordered the fighters to fight. Ortiz, for whatever reason, didn't defend himself (and actually appeared to be trying to hug Mayweather). Mayweather did nothing wrong.
After that head butt, Ortiz would not have grounds to complain if Mayweather had pulled a gun from his trunks and shot Ortiz.
Most ringside media also have a vested interest in Pacquiao's remaining undefeated and fighting Mayweather. Boxing is a subjective sport which means things like what happened tonight can happen. A boxer with Pacquiao's experience knows that and should have made it so there was no doubt in anybody's mind, which he didn't do.
Remember that there are many people who believe the same thing that happened to Pacquiao via Bradly happened to Marquez via Pacquiao. This is probably why the person complaining the least about the decision is Manny.
Disgree - Mayweather who never gets hit got hit more in those few rounds than his last 10 bouts combined - he...was...going...to...lose. Anyway, you seem a good fight fan - there aren’t many of us left - and now even fewer after last Saturday night. Loving baseball, boxing and horse racing I’ve obviously become far too old for this day and age.
A wonderful thought but not the way I see it. If Mayweather hangs around, he will lose. If Pacquiao's shocking loss wakes him up, that might be it, provided they ever get into the ring. If Canelo Alvarez can put off the fight for a couple of years and avoid growing out of the weight class, he's the one that I'd put my money on to get the job done.
Anyway, you seem a good fight fan - there aren’t many of us left - and now even fewer after last Saturday night. Loving baseball, boxing and horse racing I’ve obviously become far too old for this day and age.
I've been a boxing fan, off and on, since the Ali-Frazier fight. A great time to get attracted to boxing - some great fighters in that era for those who suddenly realized that there were other weight classes as well. Great champions: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman (heavyweight), Bob Foster (light-heavy), Carlos Monzon (middleweight), Jose Napolez (welterweight), Eder Jofre (featherweight), Reuben Olivares (bantamweight) and the emergence of possibly the most exciting of them all, Roberto Duran (lightweight). Four or five of those guys are possibly the best their weight classes have ever seen.
I've been a baseball fan since the days of Mickey Mantle (hence my screen name). Back in the days before PEDs took over.
Horse racing had a tremendous run in the 1970s with Secretariat, Affirmed, Alydar, Seattle Slew, Spectacular Bid.
We are getting a little long in the tooth.
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