Manny Pacquiao remains WBO world champion spectacular and controversial

Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez There is an exciting and spectacular fight - Pacquiao wins in the end to controversial points. Now it will be another duel between the two, but the boxing world waits for another battle.

When the twelve rounds were over, ripped Juan Manuel Marquez, his fists up, he climbed the ropes and let the audience in Las Vegas to celebrate. The Mexican boxer was certain: he had won this fight, he defeated Manny Pacquiao. The Filipino however, ran quietly in his corner and knelt once to pray. People in the boxing ring at the MGM Grand were as excited as stunned Manny Pacquiao, the recognized best boxer in the world could have actually lost.

Then ring announcer Michael Buffer read out the verdict of the judges: 114:114 evaluated one, 115:113 and 116:112 the other two - one each for Pacquiao. "I've won the fight clearly. It was close, but I've won," said Pacquiao in the ring yet, but his words were hard to understand, because the followers of Marquez booed so loudly and began to throw bottles at the ring. Marquez said later about the verdict: "It's tough when you have to fight against an opponent and the referee."

Pacquaio is so welterweight champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), after 15 Victory in a row he can produce a fighting record of 54 wins with three losses and two undecidable. He is also likely on Monday It will appear in the pound-for-pound list of the valid weight classes and well-respected rankings of The Ring magazine, will remain on square one. Marquez was ranked in fifth place before the fight, so the duel had been declared previously as one of the most exciting and spectacular of the year.

The fight was the monstrous hype, which was held in the weeks before, especially in the U.S., Mexico and the Philippines, actually stood. Even celebrities like Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley and Steve Buscemi, which is usual to give at such events were casual, at the end of their seats and roared wildly into the ring.

Pacquiao and Marquez were at their third meeting - it was 2004, a draw and three years ago, a controversial win if Pacquiao - again twelve rounds each beaten into, it was a spectacular fight, a ring battle, and Marquez did this battle, especially in the middle rounds to dominate.

Again and again he made with beautiful combinations, fast counterattacks and massive head hits that Pacquiao lost his balance and fall back knew. Such problems had Pacquiao last in 2008, against, well, Juan Manuel Marquez.