Took today off and just rewatched this thing. Paused it to take notes and tried nreaking each round up into thirds. These are just notes, I ain't trying to make anything formal.
However, there are thirds of a roud where a fighter has that are more effective than the other fighter's 3rd. For example, Bradley or Pacquiao might have won the first minute, then the other fighter won the next minute. But one of those minutes being significantly better than the other's, means to me you're winning the round so far. Even if you have a good quality 1 minute, that beats out a so-so 2 minutes.
I also tried to take into account effective defense, where if a fighter is being more aggressive, but not really landing, then they should get credit for coming forward, but not as much because they aren't landing, or not landing anhthing noteworthy. Also since it's not just about th amountmof punches landed, harder looking/sounding/punches that seem to do more damage by the expression of the fighter, was counted more effective.
2-2 (last 2/3 of 3 and 4 were all manny, Bradley other way around for 1st 2 rounds).
Here's where I started breaking everything down round by round, from what I saw. (just copied and pasted from ipad):
Roud five: slightly Bradley through first minute of round 5, 2nd minute, Pacquiao landed bombs early cleaner, Bradley threw more, but barely landed due to Pacquiao's defense, 3rd minute: Pacquiao landing big, Bradley missing/being blocked, landing lightly, Pacquiao missing here and there, but landing slightly more and harder. Pacquiao for sure.
Onto the 1st minute of Round 6: Bradley with some jabs, one gets through most are blocked or missed- but Bradley so far, 2nd minute: Bradley has this so far is just landing cleaner and set up a good trap for the right hand. *Even the rest of the round with Bradley connecting late, Last minute: Bradley opens up with a straight right early, lands another, Pacquiao putting some work in in the corner but isn't landing clean, howver it looks aggressive, but from replay he did land that monster right hook to the body, Re-center and Pacquiao lands heavy shots, Bradley let a couple slip in, but nothing noteworthy, except maybe a small uppercut. I say Pacquiao.
Rount 7, Bradley putting in work early, not really landing, Pacquiao is defending well, but is being aggressive, Pacquiao with a left upstairs, Bradley right to the body, They exchange and both really not hitting anything notable, Bradley so far, 2nd minute: *Bradley being aggressive but not landing, leads to some clinching, Pacquiao landing three solid punches, bradley's punches being defended, Pacquiao flurries effectively, they exhcange and Pacquiao countering effectively, Pacquiao wins the 2nd minute and so far the round (Pacquiao's minute > Bradley winning the first since Bradley barely did much in the first to win), 3rd minute: Some exchanging early, Pacquiao landing harder. Pacquiao's round.
Round 8, first minute: Bradley jabbing, not really landing anything except maybe one jab to the body, Pacquiao defending well even though he's not firing back, Bradley lands twice during an exchange with 2 good hooks, 2nd minute: heads collide, They exchange and Pacquiao lands from awkward angles about 3 good shots, Pacquiao with a good left hand set-up, Bradley comes back with a right, Pacquiao on the ropes, but fights off, some wild swinging from both, 3rd minute: Bradley punching, but all hitting Pacquiao's arms and gloves, Pacquiao throwing late but not connecting. Pacquiao.
Round 9: Bradley punching, again not really landing anything, lands a jab to the body, Pacquiao throwing but missing the left, Bradley tries to throw back but also missing, Pacquiao thrws more, but misses again due to Bradley making him miss, Bradley so far. 2nd minute: Pacquiao with a good uppercut that pauses Bradley for a minute, flurries but doesn't land too cleanly, they exchange, both fighters landing, Pacquiao slightly more and harder, Pacquiao landing more and thus far winning the round, but Bradley did land a nice left hook to the body 3rd minute: Bradley getting 1 or 2 good punches early, Both fighter flurry, but both being defended cleanly, Bradley taking back the round with some body work, Pacquiao coming back, Bradley with some good dipping head movement to avoid Pacquiao's punches. Pacquiao's round.
Round 10: Starts off the same again, Bradley throwing but catching only arms and gloves, has a right to the body, and lands good left upstairs and another left to the body, Bradley so far convincingly. 2nd minute: Bradley lands a counter left, Bradley being block, but lands a good right hand and later a left jab. 3rd minute: Bradley boxing well from the outside doing a good job getting a punch in here and there while not getting hit. Bradley easily.
Round 11: First minute, both throwing and not really hitting, Bradley starts to connect again, nothing too damaging but he's getting points, does some decent bodywork. 2nd minute: Bradley boxing very well, he's being active in a way where he's not really landing much, but the activity is giving Pacquiao angles where Pacquiao isn't able to counter effectively, Pacquiao barely even throwing anything. 3rd minute: more of the same, Pacauiao starts throwing but Bradley showing good head movement. Bradley easily.
Round 12: More of the same from Bradley, but he isn't landing anything, good body shot by Bradley. 2nd minute: Bradley doing a good job setting the pace, throwing flurries, but nothing clean. Pacquiao does slip in a good clean left. 3rd minute: They both land early, Manny's looked slightly more powerful. Both throwing, but missing or landing so ething glancing. Bradley's round.
7-5 Pacquiao.
Pacquaio definitely did land the harder shots and hurt Bradley more, but Bradley's brightest moments were good ring generalship in the rounds and parts of rounds he won. Some of those rounds where Bradley throwing like 10 punches over the span of a minute and all were blocked except for maybe one glancing shot did win him some portions of a round, but wasn't marked highly.
Looking back again, I was wrong about it being a lopsided robbery, but still thought Pacquiao did win more rounds.
HE SAID HE DIDNT EVEN SEE THE FIGHT.
