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Everything about his awful performance last night points towards him rooting for a Pacquiao UD. Gifting Pacquiao early 10-8 rounds with KDs that were obviously slips, but more obviously his disgraceful showing in round 9.


The count was slow.. very slow, 10 seconds from Algieri landing flat on his back, he was still on his knees. By 12 seconds he was stumbling away to the corner with his back to the ref who insisted he was going to continue. He was then awarded a standing 8 (wtf) and broke the action with Algieri on the ropes following that. Why?

Stinks.

Its funny I read some similar comments back in 2009 when the Pac/Cotto fight was stopped. Cotto could have finished the fight, but apparently the ref was corrupt?

Ricky_ wrote:Everything about his awful performance last night points towards him rooting for a Pacquiao UD. Gifting Pacquiao early 10-8 rounds with KDs that were obviously slips, but more obviously his disgraceful showing in round 9.


The count was slow.. very slow, 10 seconds from Algieri landing flat on his back, he was still on his knees. By 12 seconds he was stumbling away to the corner with his back to the ref who insisted he was going to continue. He was then awarded a standing 8 (wtf) and broke the action with Algieri on the ropes following that. Why?

Stinks.

At the very least I would call him inept and incompetent. I’ll have to admit that my illegal stream was a bit sketchy but from what I saw, Algieri BARELY rose at the count of 10 and then he turned his back, walked away and the ref continued to count Algieri was given an eternity to recover. I don’t know wtf the rules are in Macau, but that’s an automatic stoppage EVERYWHERE else. Not sure why the HBO crew, especially Lederman, didn’t catch that. I think Max even said something to the effect that it would be a shame if the fight were stopped. This was nearly as bad as when Cintron was ko’d by Sergio but somehow convinced the ref he was fouled and the ref let it continue.

Ricky_ wrote:Everything about his awful performance last night points towards him rooting for a Pacquiao UD. Gifting Pacquiao early 10-8 rounds with KDs that were obviously slips, but more obviously his disgraceful showing in round 9.


The count was slow.. very slow, 10 seconds from Algieri landing flat on his back, he was still on his knees. By 12 seconds he was stumbling away to the corner with his back to the ref who insisted he was going to continue. He was then awarded a standing 8 (wtf) and broke the action with Algieri on the ropes following that. Why?

Stinks.

Had the ref stopped it, all you would've heard is how "Algieri could've continued" and the ref was paid to give Pacquiao a KO.

It was a very average performance by the ref in many instances. Luckily it was never going to change the outcome (winner) of the bout.

Not sure whose interests Rodriguez would be serving by forcing the fight into a UD, unless he bet on the fight or was working for someone who did. There's no way Pacquiao / Arum would have wanted a UD, and there's no way that Algieri has anything to influence Rodriguez with. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that they were in China, where boxing cards are rarely held, and he was trying to set-up an even more brutal KTFO to make the Chinese audience more interested in boxing. Honestly, I don't see any possible explanation for why you'd allow the challenger to continue when he's getting up at 10, and he's vastly behind on the scorecards, even if the ref was corrupt.