I am so stoked about tonight's fight between Pacquiao and Marquez on their 3rd showdown. It's gonna go down in a couple more hours. I have some friends coming over in a bit. I'm planning to order some pizza before they eventually make their way. It shouldn't be bad having our Mexican/ Latino friends over and then us Filipinos on the other side watching the fight together. Hopefully another friend (who is African-American) will also show up. It's good to have a crowd set up together at the home.
Aftermath:
Pacquiao wins majority (yet controversial) decision; foray of boos given by Pro-Marquez crowd at the MGM Grand
"Pacquiao has thrown 578 punches connecting 176 while Marquez had it 436 connecting 138. Pacquiao threw 304 jabs connecting 59 to Marquez's 182 with 38 connects. Pacquiao threw 274 power punches connecting 117 while Marquez threw 254 with 100 connecting." (taken from a page link in Pinoygreats.com)
Marquez thinks he won again and felt robbed. How could he have won anyways? Let's be realistic --- by just hitting Manny hard with the punches, alone --- to win? Dude, it takes a lot of fast punches thrown/landed to win every round AND a knockout to achieve that too. He failed. I will leave it as that. End of story...Filipinos and Pacquiao fans rejoice!
Me and my Mexican friend talked about the fight afterwards ... From what he saw, he said that it was a draw and NOT a win for either of the two. He thinks that each fighter gave his best performance. Although I seem to disagree (because Manny put in the most thrown/landed punches stats than Marquez), we didn't argued about it. He handled it well and went home w/ his wife to pick up their kids. So for any Filipino or Mexican arguing about this, this can be debated but with respect and no hatred to any one or anybody.
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