Pacquiao Wins WBO Title from Vargas in the Best Worst Fight of The Year
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Las Vegas, NV (November 6th, 2016)– He’s slick. He’s fast. He’s a super fighter. He’s won a world title yet again, but if you ask the boxing fans what they thought about Manny Pacquiao’s World Boxing Organization World Welterweight title decision victory over Jessie Vargas at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday evening, November 5, 2016, there won’t be much to say. It was a horrible 12 round main event to watch.
The difference between Manny Pacquiao’s abilities as a super fighter versus the very ordinary Jessie Vargas were conspicuous. Pacquiao came forward with pressure. Pacquiao got inside. Pacquiao walked Vargas down. Vargas maybe won a round or two if you scored the bout neutral and fair. Vargas looked looked like a frightened rabbit with a cut on his left eye being chased by a nasty wolf Pacquiao salivating for a tasty meal.
In the second round Pacquiao almost got that meal, landing a left hand which droppedthe slow moving Vargas backwards, and the crowd went wild. From that point on, Pacquiao seemed content to hunt Vargas down, and Vargas, taller with longer reach, got outworked by Pacquiao pretty much from that point on.
This is oddball strange. Two judges had it 118-109 for Pacquiao. Real Combat Media scored in 118-111 for Pacquiao. One biased judge had it 114-113 for Pacquiao, meaning theoretically Pacquiao had to win the 12th and final round to win the bout. That proposition is preposterous and ridiculous, and for Nevada to allow that judge to get away with attempted robbery, it’s not right to have happened. In reality, Pacquiao was two points ahead on the odd scorecard going into round 12, and came out a head by one point. The biased scorecard still was not right to have been allowed to occur.
Pacquiao, 58-6-2 with 38 knockouts, age 37, General Santos, Philippines, doesn’t need to fight or earn any more money, unless he wants to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. again, and the public might want that to happen, or maybe Danny Garcia, Kell Brook, or Keith Thurman. As for Vargas, 27-2, 10 knockouts, Las Vegas, Nevada, age 27, he needs to go back to the drawing board. He isn’t in Pacquiao’s class, and the older guy kicked the younger guy’s you know what. It wasn’t good entertainment, but the crowd loved it anyway. Pacman won. Case closed.
By Bill Dwyer
Not uncharacteristically, Top Rank Boxing’s chief executive Bob Arum, who never minces words, said that judging such as that should disqualify that judge from future fights.
Arum also criticized the judging in the loss of another Filipino veteran, Nonito Donaire, who was upset by unbeaten Las Vegas challenger, Jessie Magdaleno, in a WBO junior featherweight title fight. One judge had Donaire winning just two rounds. Donaire said afterward he not only was stunned that he didn’t get the decision, but it never occurred to him afterward that he wouldn’t.
The two other judges had it a closer 116-112 for Magdaleno.
In the other two undercard title fights, China’s Olympic star, Zou Shiming, showed some dazzling speed and won a unanimous decision and a WBO flyweight title over Thailand’s Prasitak Phaprom, and Mexico’s Óscar Valdez continued his march toward stardom and main events spots with a seventh-round knockdown of Japan’s Hiroshige Osawa. It was Valdez’s first defense of his WBO featherweight title.
Now, literally and figuratively, the beat goes on for the Senator from the Philippines.
The hot topic of discussion before the fight was how in the world Pacquiao could make every senate session and every important committee meeting (he is on 15 committees), while properly preparing for a fight. Now, that being proven as no problem, the discussion moves to that which always keeps the motors running in boxing.
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