Judges need mainly criteria and a cool mind. Boxers are fighters, aggressive by nature. One thing doesn´t exclude the other of course but looking for judges among ex-boxers is like the worst place to start imo.
Duane Ford, who had it 115-113 Bradley:
"You've got to put the ball in the basket and Manny didn't put the ball in the basket enough. ... This isn't American Idol. If I judge for the people, I shouldn't be a judge. I went in with a clear mind and judged each round. ... I don't look at the punch stats but I saw Manny miss a lot of punches and Bradley hit Manny and win a lot of the exchanges. ... I'm comfortable with my performance. I thought Bradley gave Pacquiao a boxing lesson."
Jerry Roth, who had it 115-113 Pac
"I'm looking for effective aggressiveness. I thought Pacquiao won a lot of the early rounds, and I thought Bradley came on in the end. That's why I gave Bradley the last three rounds. But I still thought Pacquiao had done enough to win."
looks like the main reasoning for the decision is that Pac was more active, but they felt he was wild and missing, while Bradley was boxing and more effective
Which is completely true. Most of the hoopla has to do with the fact that everyone was watching HBO and listening to Jim Lampley scream "HARD LEFT STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE LANDS FOR PACQUIAO!" on every single punch thrown by Pacquiao regardless of whether or not it actually landed or not. In reality, by round 5, Bradley hand found Pacqiaos timing, and was able to get away from the Left hand.
Your right, that looks to be her only true questionable score. But it was also her biggest fight she's had to score. She scored Alvarez-Mosley, but there were zero close rounds in that one. I'm just saying I don't think she quite rose to the occasion.
You would have a valid point if she scored it by a wider margin
But she scored it similar to two vets in the judging game.
Lara Williams was no where near this bad. Williams and Lara landed about the same, Lara was landing huge left hands and Williams was landing slappy punches thats why it was an awful decision. Pacquiao drastically outlanded Bradley and landed the much harder punches
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