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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Reportedly Called Pacquiao vs. Bradley Fight a Draw

Rory Marsden

Floyd Mayweather Jr. reportedly judged Manny Pacquiao's unanimous-decision defeat of Timothy Bradley Jr. in Las Vegas on Saturday as a draw.

All three ringside judges scored the fight 116-110 in favour of Pacquiao, but the retired Mayweather reportedly told Bradley after the fight that he thought it was tighter and that he had it as a draw on his scorecard, believing the pro-Manny crowd had influenced the result, per ESPN.com's Wallace Matthews.

"Go home and watch the replay with the sound off," Mayweather reportedly told Bradley during a visit after the bout, per Matthews.

The report added Mayweather believed the seventh round was the key, as he thought Bradley was winning it before he was ruled to have been knocked down.

For many, it was more of a slip, per ESPN's Skip Bayless:

The American never got back into the fight, and the Filipino legitimately knocked him down in the ninth round before cruising to victory.

Rappler shared the judges' scorecards:

Mayweather was unquestionably in the minority with his assessment of the fight.

The overwhelming reaction as Pacquiao claimed his second victory over Bradley in three fights was that the 37-year-old was an easy winner.

Indeed, Yahoo Sports' Chris Mannix branded the fight "pointless," given Pacquiao's clear superiority over his opponent:

The first time the pair met, in 2012, Bradley won on a controversial split decision—see the highlights below:

The 2014 rematch saw Pacquiao claim a unanimous-decision victory before he repeated the trick at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday.

His victory came almost a year after his last fight, which he lost to Mayweather in May.

Mayweather later beat Andre Berto to take his professional record to 49-0 and retired. Pacquiao is now following suit.

Before Saturday's fight, he said it would be his last and confirmed as much following the action in Las Vegas, per the Guardian's Bryan Armen Graham

Pacquiao looked fluid in the victory and could still hold his own in the ring for a few more years, but for now, he has hung up his gloves and called time on a glittering career.

   

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