?He?s the true champion now . . . ?
His puffy eyes and bruised face concealed by sunglasses, former featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera was all about respect, shortly after his devastating 11th round stoppage at the hands of newly-crowned king Manny Pacquiao.
?I have no excuses,? said Barrera. ?He was the better man tonight. I have a lot of respect for the new champion.?
In what is, so far, the upset of the year, Pacquaio, a 4-1 underdog and the current IBF superbantam champion, moved up to featherweight and was able to not only beat the world?s top 126-pounder, but dish out punishment in a way Barrera has not experienced since losing to Junior Jones in 1996.
