Manny Pacquiao retains Super Featherweight title
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Bill Jempty | Sunday, October 7, 2007 |
This was the first boxing match I watched in over ten years.
LAS VEGAS (AFP) – Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao continued his mastery over Marc Antonio Barrera Saturday with unanimous 12-round decision in their super featherweight fight.
It was a rematch of their 2003 bout which was also won by Pacquiao who dominated Barrera with superior hand speed and harder punches.
All three judges gave the decision to Pacquiao by a wide margin with Glenn Trowbridge scoring it 118-109.
The 28-year-old Pacquiao (45-3-2, 35 KOs) was the more aggressive of the two trading blows with the underdog Barrera in the centre of the ring and often beating the 33-year-old Mexican veteran to the punch at the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino.
Barrera, who plans to retire after the bout, tried to engineer a tactical fight but looked slower and more awkward. But unlike 2003 when his corner threw in the towel, this time Barrera hung on to remain standing at the end of the final round.
Barrera did nothing to impress the judges. He fought a tactical fight, but appeared scared or wary of Pacquiao who battered him four years earlier.
How did I come about watching a fight for the first time in many years? It was all due to my Philippine born wife. Leonita was talking to her family last night and they told her about the fight. So we ordered Pay-per-view.
Talking about Pay-per-view and DirectTV. We get high definition as part of our satellite package. If we wanted to see the bout in HD, Directv wanted 10 daoolars more than the $49.95 regular price. In addition, Directv wanted $5 for letting us view the bout on all the televisions in our house. That was unless we ordered it off the internet.
All of this makes me pretty reluctant to order any further bouts in the future. I used to follow boxing, but as the sport concentrated more and more on first cable(Anyone besides me remember watching Muhammad Ali fight in prime-time on Network television in the 70’s?) and eventually Pay-per-view my interest in boxing waned and then disappeared entirely. Other than Pacquaio I couldn’t name one WBA, WBC or IBF title holder at the moment. While Pay-per-view may be more lucrative, I think it could in the end kill interest in the sport. That’s just my humble opinion.
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RESPECTABLE SIR
YOUR ASSESMENT IS 100% CORRECT , BOXING HAS LOST A HUGE FAN BASE DUE TO THE PAYPERVIEW PHENOMENA AND THE WRONG PLANNING OF TV NETWORKS.
FORTUNATTELY FREE TV NETWORKS ARE REALISNG THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS GREAT SPORT AND ARE STARTING TO BROADCAST AGAIN FIGHTS SO THE PUBLIC CAN FOLLOW THE RISING TALENT AS WELL AS THE CURRENT STARS.
MEXICO STARTED TO AIR FIGHTS THIS YEAR AFTER 10 YEARS OF NOT SHOWING BOXING IN FREE TV , IM SURE MANY COUNTRIES WILL FOLLOW
BEST REGARDS AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL COME BACK TO BOXING AS A FAN !!!
BY THE WAY , THE WBC CHAMPION IS JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ THE ONE WHO BEAT BARRERA AND DREW WITH PAQUIAO , SO THE REMATCH WITH MANNY MIGHT BE COMING SOON FOR THE WBC WORLD TITLE
MAURICIO SULAIMAN
Yes I agree. Boxing has never had so much air time in the UK ever and is now becoming very popular again. Even better the TV companies have wised up to the the non entity titles those baubles and recently only show real titles Lonsdales, Commonwealths, EBU, WBC. So we are getting the best domestic and International fights.
I hope that boxing starts looking after its grass roots and the TV companies increasly come back to big tiem boxing
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