Pacquiao hits Canelo-GGG scoring

Manny Pacquiao used the social media to take a dig at the judges that worked last Sunday’s action-packed middleweight clash between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.

Not far from Pacquiao’s mind was the result of his own showdown with Australian Jeff Horn last July 2 in Brisbane.

“Did they bring these judges over from Australia,” said Pacquiao in one of his Twitter accounts, a post that drew a thousand comments, over 21,000 retweets and more than 38,000 likes.

Pacquiao lost the fight and his WBO welterweight crown to Horn, on all three scorecards, when a bigger number of fight fans as well as boxing experts thought he did enough to keep the crown.

Alvarez and Golovkin, the WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight champion, fought hard for 12 rounds in Las Vegas.

The fight ended in a split draw, with one judge going for the Mexican, 118110, another for the Kazakh, 115-113, and the third calling it a draw, 114-114

Many felt that Golovkin deserved the victory, and many were infuriated by the judge that had it 118-110 for Alvarez.

After nine rounds, Pacquiao said he had Golovkin ahead, 6-3.

Pacquiao felt he won the fight over Horn. But the judges, all three of them, had the former schoolteacher winning, 117-111, 115-113, 115-113.

The Filipino camp was up in arms after the fight, and the Games and Amusements Board, the regulatory body for all professional sports in the Philippines, called on the WBO to review the fight.

The WBO appointed five neutral judges to re-score the fight, with no aid of audio, and ended up with Horn still as the victory.

Three of the judges had it for Horn, 115-113, 114-114, 114-113, one had it for Pacquiao, 114-113, and another called it a draw, 114-114.