Pacquiao wins another controversial fight against Marquez, kup*l people of the internets not pleased

Manny Pacquiao retained his WBO Welterweight crown in yet another controversial fight against the tough Juan Manuel Marquez Sunday morning, San Pedro, Laguna time. Just like their two previous fights, the bout went to the scorecards and Pacquiao wins by Majority Decision with judges scoring the thrilling battle, 114-114, 116-112 and 115-113.

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Surprisingly, instead of being glad, many people from the worldwide web, in which some are my contacts, showed discontentment and unconditional unhappiness with the result. For me, those reactions are as sickening as the bushy beard of Pacquiao. Yes, I also thought that Pacquiao could’ve been beaten for the reason that I didn’t see the same aggressiveness and fierceness that he’s used to show on his previous fights but to see some of our nagmamagaling na kababayans saying the result was “linuto” or the outcome of the bout was fucked up by the tried and tested professional boxing judges is simply maddening. Hindi na lang ba tayong masaya na nanalo si Pacquiao?

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The fight was hotly contested and you can’t blame Marquez for saying that he was screwed for the third time but it was really close. To say naluto? It’s unfair for the whole Team Pacquiao. As Bryan Graham of Sport Illustrated wrote it, “Call it a lot of things, but don’t call it a robbery”. Luto is Viveka Babajee [RIP] announcing Gabby Concepcion as the Best Actor instead of Edu Manzano in the 1994 MMFF Awards. Luto is the Spanish Government’s decision to execute Jose Rizal through firing squad without a proper trial. Luto is Vic Vargas losing to Ruel Bernal in a boxing fight in Bong Revilla’s epical movie, “Boy Tornado” and eventually dying. Pacquiao-Marquez III? No, hindi nagkalutuan. Pacquiao has all the reason in the world to say that he won the fight.

It’s not a convincing win, yes. It’s indeed a very sloppy win for Pacquiao but he really pulled this one off. Marquez had great rounds but he stopped fighting at the latter rounds. My cousin, Christopher Rosales had a great analogy about the fight when he compared it to a basketball game saying, “naicompare ko ung laban nila sa isang basketball game, puro flashy dunks ung ginawa ni Marquez the whole game, kaya ung impression ng karamihan sya ung mas magaling at nanalo.. While si Manny, nanalo dahil sa freethrows..di nga flashy pero in the end its the final score that counts..”. Superb comparison isn’t it? Plus, since most of us have high expectations for Pacquiao, we all looked forward for a knockout. It didn’t happen obviously and we became disappointed to the point that we’re already thinking that he’s losing. But again, to say that the game was just rigged by the judges is ultimately wrong.

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Anyway, Marquez already mentioned that they will not contest the decision and is now contemplating for retirement. Hats-off to him, though. He really fought terrifically it was just that Pacquiao landed more punches and that’s the way to judge a boxing match. A win is a win wika nga nila and besides this is good bait for Floyd Mayweather to finally agree to fight Manny next year. Although he won, the fight showed that Pacquiao has a a hard time against a counterpuncher and Floyd is greatly known for being such. But let’s just wait for that, hirap pa si Pacquiao eh.

For the haters, the doubters, the ever-fucking bandwagoners, please watch the replay of the fight so you’ll realize but I guess you won’t do that since at this point, it’s already cool to go against Pacquiao. In my opinion, the only people who think that Pacquiao is the actual loser of this fight are the people who think that the Vice Ganda joke “kapag… agad/di ba pwedeng… muna?” is funny and unfortunately, ang dami niyo.

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BTW, nice shoes, Pac.