Pacquiao beat Marquez again to retain the welterweight crown from the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the majority decision loss in the third fight of the trilogy between two fighters who won the Filipino champion (2-0-1) .
The vote was 114-114 combat for Judge Robert Hoyle, while Dave Moretti and Glenn Trowbridge saw gave 115-113 116-112, both in favor of Pacquiao, who took a bag of 22 million dollars and left his mark (02/03/54, 38 KOs) in what was his third defense of the welterweight title.
Pacquiao entered the ring and served as a favorite in the betting forecast in Las Vegas, that from one day before the fight they gave it as a bookmark with numbers 7-1.
However, he had to suffer until the last second of the scheduled 12-round fight to the end with relief to hear the outcome of the vote of the judges saw the fight differently than the rest of the majority of the 18,000 spectators who packed the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas (Nevada), and commentators
Pacquiao, 32, was a defensive battle in the first half, far away from the fights to which he is accustomed to his followers, and without getting effective blows, nor powerful, endangering his opponent.
But in the end if he could get into the guard blows Marquez to place enough to give him the edge in the cards of judges and secured him the victory.
Marquez came into the ring with a tactic that was not expected champion, keeping the distance to prevent and counter the power of the Filipino, that in the most technical of the Mexican, only bet on his physical condition to withstand the punishment, a factor that would be decisive and of great value to Pacquiao.
In the third fight between the two fighters Marquez, 38, failed to show what had been saying, that his boxing is better than the Philippines, although once again became the toughest opponent has been the Filipino champion, considered one of the best of times.
The fighters, old friends, met in 2004 in a fight marked as a tie, four years later returned to fight and beat Pacquiao via split decision.
The merit of this time was that Marquez did not allow his fight to Pacquiao, the Filipino was even amazed at not being able to connect to the power and forcefulness with which he defeated his other rivals, looking away at times other than when trying to punish.
In his second fight in the welterweight, Marquez is also not get the win, but showed that at 38 years, the former world champion remains in a big way.
After a first episode of study in the second Marquez began to show supremacy with his speed and leg cuffs to surprise the Filipino.
Over the following episodes alternated dominance both fighters in the ring, but in the fifth when Marquez landed a left hook followed with a right cross that hit full face Pacquiao.
Filipino boxer once again confirmed their great endurance and great fitness that allowed him to recover and stay on the fight.
The same happened in the eighth assault, Marquez landed straight left hand to the Filipino's right eyebrow, which ended the fight with a slight bleeding from the wound, his corner knew it work very effectively.
Marquez looked confident about the ring, and even in the twelfth assault, thinking that the points favored him as he had secured his legendary trainer Ignacio Bersitáin, left to care, to make a fight back to avoid a blow filipino surprise.
The victory allowed Pacquiao, also carried a bag of 22 million dollars, leaving his mark on 2/3/54, with 38 wins by knockout.
While Marquez, who did his best to get professional bag five million dollars, guaranteed, their brand was dropped 06/01/53, with 39 victories achieved by fast track, and could not retrieve the honor of Mexican boxing before his worst enemy, as it always has been the Filipino boxer.
The win also leaves the way clear for Pacquiao in 2012 that can be given the opportunity to face the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight in the boxing world has been waiting for three years.
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