WAS I wrong when I said that Timothy ?Rematch? Bradley would fall in six?
With due respect, your honor, I was not wrong. I mean, I was not entirely wrong.
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From Rounds 3 to 6, Manny Pacquiao had put Bradley on the verge of dropping him to the canvas.
Had Pacquiao been successful, Bradley might have failed to beat the count of 10 and I would have hit my prediction bull?s-eye.
Unfortunately, no knockout for Pacquiao inside six rounds as I had predicted.
Why, because Bradley proved to be of sterner stuff. He got hit real hard, yes, several times but withstood the storm each time. That was the reason, perhaps, that Bradley was called The Desert Storm.
Likewise, Pacquiao wasn?t as quick and as swift as before, making him lose some follow-up shots when Bradley ducked and wove his way out of danger with incessant success.
And haven?t you noticed?
Gone were the rapid-fire punches that Pacquiao would usually unleash without let-up when he saw an opening, however small that might be.
In short, while Pacquiao had made more connection, and had landed the more telling blows, it would have been just right if the judges made PacMan the winner.
When the contrary happened, boxing suffered a black eye.
Bradley won by split decision to score a ?Jubilee Upset;? ? the 4-1 underdog won in the most unexpected victory in the last 60 years of the sport.
It was Bradley?s 29th straight victory while dealing Pacquiao (54-4-2) his first defeat in 16 fights in the last seven years of the PacMan?s 17-year boxing career.
Why two judges had scored it 115-113 in favor of Bradley, with the third judge making Pacquiao the winner by a similar 115-113 tally wasn?t only shocking but was totally unacceptable.
Was the fight fixed, as many saw it?
Was the Las Vegas syndicate at work?
Did the mob a.k.a. Mafia pounce on the rematch clause of the fight?
Look, there was already a date for the return bout should Bradley win it: November 11 (Manila Time).
To game-manipulators, it was just as tempting as for thieves to ransack a jewelry shop when the door was left ajar after office hours.
It can?t be more obvious than that.
