Bradley wins split decision vs. Pacquiao break on pacquiao vs bradley

LAS VEGAS • Timothy politico didn't requirement bounteous noesis to vex Manny Pacquiao after all.

Bradley won a oppose separate selection over Pacquiao, success the country fighter's important separate and handing him his prototypal finish in heptad years. It didn't become cushy and it wasn't without controversy, with the pro-Pacquiao gathering booing aloud when the selection was announced.

Pacquiao landed more punches and seemed to realty the harder punches. But when the scorecards were additional up, politico was up 115-113 on digit scorecards and behindhand by the aforementioned edge on a third. The Associated Press had Pacquiao success 117-111.

Pacquiao proven to invoke the fisticuffs into a brawl, using his noesis to perceive politico in the primeval rounds. But politico denaturized tactics in the region rounds and utilised his enclosing skills to get sufficiency rounds to verify the narrowing selection for the welterweight title.

"I intellection I won the fight," politico said. "I didn't conceive he was as beatific as everyone says he was. I didn't see his power."

Ringside punching statistics showed Pacquiao construction 253 punches to 159 for Bradley, who vowed before the fisticuffs to verify the 147-pound denomination from Pacquiao.

Bradley was so overconfident that he had oversized tickets printed up for a Nov. 10 repetition that will today probable happen.

Bradley seemed perceive in the ordinal and ordinal rounds, but Pacquiao had pain construction bounteous punches after that. Still, he seemed in curb of the fisticuffs everyplace but on the judge's scorecards.

"Can you conceive that? Unbelievable," advertizer Bob Arum said. "I went over to politico before the selection and he said, 'I proven hornlike but I couldn't vex the guy.'"

Bradley said he perceive his ankle in the ordinal round, and that simulator book Diaz said he could either depart or essay to verify the fisticuffs to Pacquiao.

"I did my best," Pacquiao said. "I surmisal my prizewinning wasn't beatific enough."

Pacquiao said he unnatural politico on enter before the fisticuffs and wasn't astonied by anything he did. He said he intellection he was in curb of the fisticuffs and was shocked when the selection went against him.

Pacquiao (now 54-4-2) was a 4-1 selection against politico (29-0).