{"id":34444,"date":"2017-07-12T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T09:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34444"},"modified":"2017-07-12T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T09:18:55","slug":"pacquiao-disagrees-re-score-says-no-plans-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/pacquiao-disagrees-re-score-says-no-plans-quit.html","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao disagrees with re-score, says no plans to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pacquiao disagrees with re-score, says no plans to quit<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pacquiao disagrees with re-score, says no plans to quit:- Manny Pacquiao still disagrees with the unanimous decision that resulted in him losing the WBO world welterweight title to Jeff Horn, despite an independent re-scoring of the July 2 fight, and says he has no plans to retire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">On Monday, the WBO said in a statement that three of the five independent judges who scrutinized the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored it a draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A Philippines government department asked the WBO to review the refereeing and the judging of the so-called &#8220;Battle of Brisbane&#8221; in Australia after Horn, fighting for his first world title, won a contentious unanimous points decision against Pacquiao, an 11-time world champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The review concluded that Horn won seven rounds to Pacquiao&#8217;s five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pacquiao was subsequently quoted in Philippines&#8217; media as saying &#8220;Let the people judge for themselves &#8230; people saw what happened. We have seen worse judgments in the past where judges manipulated results. Nothing surprises me now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The 38-year-old Pacquiao on Wednesday indicated in a Twitter post that he won&#8217;t be hanging up his gloves, suggesting a rematch against the 29-year-old Horn, a former schoolteacher, could happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;I love this sport and until the passion is gone, I will continue to fight for God, my family, my fans and my country,&#8221; Pacquiao said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Horn said he welcomed the outcome of the WBO review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;It gives me evidence behind me that I can just use now. Instead of saying I think I won the fight, now a heap of other people \u2014 professionally \u2014 think I won the fight,&#8221; Horn said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The fight, in front of more than 51,000 people, was scored 117-111 by Waleksa Roldan and 115-113 each by Chris Flores and Ramon Cerdan \u2014 Roldan&#8217;s score coming in for heavy criticism. Pacquiao had Horn in wobbling and in trouble in the 9th round, but couldn&#8217;t finish him off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Horn rallied late to hold on for the points decision and remain unbeaten in 18 professional fights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/boxing\/2017\/07\/12\/pacquiao-disagrees-with-re-score-says-no-plans-to-quit\/103625226\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/pacquiao-disagrees-re-score-says-no-plans-quit.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacquiao disagrees with re-score, says no plans to quit Pacquiao disagrees with re-score, says no plans to quit:- Manny Pacquiao still disagrees with the unanimous decision that resulted in him losing the WBO world welterweight title to Jeff Horn, despite an independent re-scoring of the July 2 fight, and says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21189],"class_list":["post-34444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pacquiao-disagrees-with-re-score-says-no-plans-to-quit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}