Manny Pacquiao survived a controversial first round knockdown and went on to completely dominate Marco Antonio Barrera from the second until the revered Mexican?s handlers clambered up the ring in the dying seconds of the 11th to call a halt to the fight before a stunned partisan crowd at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas Saturday night (Sunday in the Philippines).
Pacquiao, the 24-year-old IBF super bantamweight champion and fighting as a featherweight for only the second time, had the 29-year-old fighter from Mexico City, widely regarded as the world?s best featherweight, so utterly outfought that the statistics seem hard to believe.
