Source: www.manilatimes.net --- Sunday, July 02, 2017
BRISBANE, Australia: Manny Pacquiao’s camp Sunday slammed the officials after the Filipino great lost his World Boxing Organization welterweight title in a controversial unanimous decision to Australia’s Jeff Horn on Sunday. “The referee was sketchy, the judges were crazy,” fumed Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune, who is a former Australian heavyweight champion. “Manny lost the fight, but Jeff Horn looks like a pumpkin,” Fortune added, referring to Horn who finished the fight with a badly swollen face and needing stitches over his right eye. The three judges scored the fight 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113 to Horn. “Those scores, that card? It should be the other way around,” said Fortune. Manny Pacquiao lands a powerful punch on Jeff Horn (left) during the World Boxing Organization fight at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia. AFP PHOTO The result caused dismay on social media among boxing and sporting greats. “This is what’s wrong with boxing,” tweeted former undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. “Horn was very game but I’m hard pressed to see how he could have won that fight by any stretch!” American football quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers was equally forthright. “Boxing is a joke, and it proves it again tonight. Are you kidding me with those scorecards? #joke #rigged,” Rodgers said on Twitter. Baseball and NFL legend Deion Sanders said: “@mannypacquiao was robbed! I’m ...
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