Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pacquiao-Marquez III: A look into the 'polarizing decision'

It's been days since the Saturday megafight and hopefully, by this time, the people who have watched the fight have all been sobered up and less emotional and have a clearer perspective and understanding of what happened that night. Maybe this time they're now more attuned to using their heads rather than be carried away by their emotions.

The third installment of the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez trilogy has divided not only the boxing community but also the casual observers on who the rightful winner and welterweight champion of the world would be.

The camps of both Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez and their supporters have been very vocal with their claims that their man was the real winner last Saturday night. There were two schools of thought on the matter as to which should have more weight when judging a fight: the fighter who threw more punches versus the one who connected cleaner but at a lesser rate; the aggressor versus the counter-puncher; the fighter coming forward and initiating the action versus the fighter backpedaling and waiting for the opportunity to strike.


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