Somehow, despite a controversy that threatened to turn a good night into something bad, the judges at ringside Saturday night got it right.
It was completely by accident that they got it right – a bungling of rules and numbers – but in the fight game, you take the good whenever you can get it. Besides, mistakes are all right when they lean in your favor.
All the great things that featherweights Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao showed us in their title fight in Las Vegas, appeared to be on the verge of being overshadowed by another night of horrible, inconsistent judging. One judge had Marquez up by six points and the other had Pacquiao winning by five points.
