While world title fights are decided by boxers in the ring, computers have often been used in recent years to provide insights into what might happen.
In a fascinating use of modern technology, Title Bout Championship Boxing, which is regarded as the world?s premier boxing simulator, has run fights of World Boxing Association/International Boxing Federation champion Juan Manuel Marquez and Ring Magazine ?People?s Champion? Manny Pacquiao.
Its findings? Pacquiao will win by TKO at 2:10 of the fifth round and become the new featherweight champion of the world.
Thomas Gerbasi of Max Boxing said they ran the fights through the sim?s autoscheduler 100 times to get what he called ?a decent statistical sample.? Since Marquez is rated both as a boxer and a slugger, they ran 100 fights with him as a slugger and 100 as a boxer in the program.
