Juan Manuel Marquez had just frustrated Manny Pacquiao over 12 rounds this past Saturday at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Instead of celebrating a victory he deserved, he had to address the media as the majority-decision loser courtesy of three judges who apparently were either caught up in this love-affair boxing has for Pacquiao, or simply don’t know how to score a fight.
We’re not going suggest the judges might have been paid off because we don’t think Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, is that foolish.
While at the dais at the post-fight news conference, Marquez said he was happy with his performance and that he didn’t know what else he had to do to “change the minds of the judges.”
The 38-year-old phenom from Mexico City then came up with an anecdote that spoke volumes about what had taken place in front of 16,383.
“Not only did we beat him in the ring, we beat him in the audience,” Marquez said. “There were more Mexicans in the crowd than Filipinos.”
Well, it’s doubtful there were more Mexicans than Filipinos because any time Pacquiao fights Filipinos almost always out-number everyone else. It probably seemed there were more Mexicans because they had much more to cheer about.
If Pacquiao was doing as well as he usually does, the noise inside the MGM Grand Garden would have been deafening because the great Filipino fans are louder than anyone.
There were three Filipino reporters sitting in the area on press row. One of them looked
