For years, Juan Manuel Marquez would tell anyone who would listen that he was robbed of victories in both of the bouts he had against Manny Pacquiao – once in 2004, and once in 2008.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In the 2004 match that Marquez and Pacquiao fought to a draw in, it was the latter boxer who was robbed of victory by an incompetent, admittedly wrong judge. Then in 2008, although Marquez put up a spectacular display, there was a case to be made for Pacquiao ultimately emerging victorious from that one.
On Saturday November 12, when Pacquiao and Marquez met for the third and what many assumed would be the final time – Marquez legitimately got robbed.
Following the match, everyone who had scored the bout agreed that it was a close one. Most had Marquez winning by a hair, but enough folks had a draw for that to be a reasonable conclusion as well. What nobody had on their score sheets, however, was what the judges ultimately inexplicably landed on – a clear-cut Pacquiao win.
One judge even went so far as to give it to Pacquiao 116-112, a total that you could only reasonably come to if you had filled out your score sheet before the match had begun.
An understandably irritated Marquez left the ring in disgust as soon as the judges made their soon-to-be infamous, catastrophically awful decision.
For most of the evening, Pacquiao struggled to land anything of significance against his opponent, with most of his blows rarely causing Marquez any pause whatsoever. That all changed with a cut above the latter’s eye late in the fight, but by that point, even if you had Pacquiao winning the final three rounds of the bout, Marquez at the very worst had earned a draw.
Not according to the Mr. Magoo judges, though.
Saturday night’s final outcome was just another black eye for boxing – particularly unfortunate given the exciting nature of the fight that had unfolded. A match everyone expected to be a cakewalk for the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world proved to be something entirely different, and the sport could have greatly benefited had the judges not mucked up the proceedings with their inherent bias and/or blindness to what actually happened.
It’s important to note that Pacquiao does not deserve any blame for this highway robbery. He conducted himself after the fight in the classy manner we’ve come to expect from the People’s Champ, and while he maintained that he deserved the unjustified victory he got, he quickly agreed to a rematch versus Marquez.
"I feel I won the fight. It was close but I won. The headbutts hurt me. Yes I want to give him a rematch,” he said afterward.
Get ready for part four of this rivalry folks – because tonight’s show all but guaranteed a May 2012 encore.
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@Jhartm29 WOW! Thank you very much for that video. Explained a lot of Pacman's difficulty getting to MM and threw off his rhythm. I am not sure what rounds this happened, maybe earlier, or if Pacman was even aware of if he made an adjustment to it. I am pretty sure they will be ready for it on F4th installment if it ever happens but I myself believe that MM knew that this tactic will be discovered and just retire because I don't think he has anything else up his sleeve.
Oh, by the way..
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Marquez was not "robbed", sorry to be the one to tell you, Alex. Pac threw more, landed more, and they had virtually identical connect percentages. It was a close fight, no doubt. But Pac beat on Marquez just a bit more and did enough to win the fight. Marquez definitely has his number, though. I wouldn't mind a forth fight!
@platino Let me ask you, do you think that MM should have done more to win other than counter-punch an aggressive Pacman all night. If that was his strategy it was working for him as we see how close it was. What would happen if Pac just took the same defensive stance, then it would have been a boring draw and the crowds in the stands would not only be booing Pac. Also I was very disappointed with Pac's performance and it was not the Pacman I know that showed up in that ring, granted people were saying how MM's style actually neutralize Pac. That was part of the reason but there were a lot of other detrimental factors that contributed to Pacman's performance. One of them being the facade that Pac really trained hard for this fight. He may have over-trained OR as one of the sportswriters in the Philippines claimed that Pacquiao, who's training camp was 150miles from Manila, that Pac was actually going to Manila after his training in the evenings and then coming back late and sleeping in the car and going straight to his workout in the morning. Don't really know the truth of these statements. In any case Pac's team may have underestimated MM thinking that his age and catch weight will be factor during the fight and they were dead wrong. The reason why they just let Pacman do whatever during training. I know Freddie Roach would not have let this happen and would been screaming at Pacman which is what he did before Hatton's and Cotto's fight and it was all over the news. Not to mention MM's new conditioning coach Angel Heredia who was supposedly have been involved in the Balco drug scandal. Whatever he did worked magic for a really tight bulky and cut MM, contrasting that to the same flabby and bloated MM who lost to that 13 lbs. over the catch weight Buffoon who intentionally did it to get an unfair advantage and dominated him. Overall Pac's team did not have a plan B in the event that their assessment was dead wrong, and Pac got really lucky this time. Anyways, if you asked me, I thought it was going to be a draw. Had MM not relax in the last 2 rounds it would have been the biggest upset of the century.
J-one Kruz, ?Did we seriously saw the same fight?. Im not an expert in this sport, but explain me why medias of Europe and latinAmerica keep talking about a polemic won of "Pacman"
Face it Cry Baby MM with his A+ game still lost
to Pac's C+ game. Heh-heh. Please stop crying
all you cry-baby Mexicans.
The only one that got robbed was the fans and
that was the fault of Pac's Team. They promised
a knockout and they did not deliver as expected.
Tsk-tsk.
Ortiz-Mayweather also comes to mind when Gayweather
Ghetto Sucker Punches Ortiz when he was not looking
to end what was to a really good fight! That's
Floy for you looking to get any kind of scrupulous
advantage at any cost dirty or not.
Also the Boxing turned Wrestling Hopkins Fight.
That body slam really looked good though. LOL!
MARQUEZ WON AGAIN CLEARLY EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT, MANNY SHOULD GIVE HIS BELTS TO MARQUEZ AND I AM PAC FAN, BUT YOU NEED TO ADMIT FREDIE ROACH, ARUM TRAITOR AND MANNY THAT YOU ALL LOST, KARMA IS BIG AND IT WILL RETURN TO YOU GUYS, YOU SCREWED SOMEBODY UP VERY BAD, MARQUEZ WON, AND YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE AGAIN WITH MARQUEZ VS PACMAN 4 THAT HE WON, IF YOU PUT HIM AGAINST FLOYD, WE WE ALL BE AGAINST THAT FIGHT.
Wrong again, my man. Look at the stats. There is nothing "clear" at all about this fight. It's too close to say. Stop making blanket statements that have no basis, please.
Where did they get these judges..Mr.Magoo judges " I like that "..We need a rematch May 2012..
There Can Be Only One.