Bradley Wins Complete BS Split Decision Over Pacquiao In Fight He Appeared To Win 2 Rounds

By Bret "The Threat" Newton
Photos: Chris Farina - Top Rank

The world of boxing continues to go down the drain with yet another despicable, and absolutely horrendous scoring of a fight as Timothy Bradley (now 29-0, 12 KO's) won the WBO Welterweight Title over Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2, 38 KO's) via an ugly and widely disputed split decision.

Erisandy Lara beat Paul Williams, Gabriel Campillo beat Tavoris Cloud, Richard Abril beat Brandon Rios, and Manny Pacquiao beat Timothy Bradley, all by wide margins, but each fight had the opposite outcome when the judges scorecards were read.

Bradley had the heart and determination, but not the tools to beat Pacquiao. From start to finish, Pacquiao had his way with Bradley. Bradley tried his best and was game in willing to exchange with Pacquiao, but there is no way Bradley could have won. Bradley said it himself after the fight that he had to go home and watch the fight, himself, to see if he won. Umm, what? Shouldn't you ALREADY know?

This fight was obviously fixed to start. Promoter Bob Arum had a smile as wide as the Grinch as he hugged Bradley after winning the biggest fight (yet hoax) of his career. And not just a win over anyone, but a win over Arum's "baby", and one of the greatest fighters of all time. The rematch they planned before this fight even took place is just proof to be another reason to avoid the fight everyone wants which is Floyd Mayweather.

This was a crock. Bradley won round 10 when Pacquiao simply took the round off, and appeared to win the 12th when Bradley actually for the first time boxed well and didn't let Pacquiao in. The other 10 rounds, Bradley has no answers for as Pacquiao blasted his way in and staggered Bradley on occasion, even having him out on his feet at the end of both the 4th and 5th rounds.

Final scores were 115-113 for Pacquiao and 115-113 twice for Bradley. The fact this fight had scores that close is even bothersome. Pacquiao didn't win by that small of a margin, he won wide. But so did appear Juan Manuel Marquez in his 3rd fight with Pacquiao. Go figure.