LAS VEGAS – All-time great Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao cruised to a comfortable unanimous decision over Adrien “The Problem” Broner to defend his WBA Welterweight World Championship on SHOWTIME PPV® Saturday night in front of a sold-out MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The scores were 117-111, 116-112 twice.
The global icon and boxing’s only eight-division champion Pacquaio – who was fighting for the first time as a 40-year-old, and the first time in the United State in more than two years – used effective jabs and sustained body work in his 70th professional fight that was watched by an announced attendance of 13,025 fans, including the retired Floyd Mayweather.
“I proved in my last fight against [Lucas] Matthysse and now I proved it again: The Manny Pacquiao journey will still continue,” Pacquiao said.
Asked by SHOWTIME’s Jim Gray if he would like to rematch Mayweather in the future, Pacquiao said he’d do it if Mayweather unretired.
“Tell him to come back to the ring and we will fight,” Pacquaio said. “I’m willing to fight Floyd Mayweather again if he’s willing to come back to boxing.”
SHOWTIME Sports official scorer Steve Farhood scored the fight 118-110 in favor of the Filipino Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 KOs), giving Cincinnati’s Broner (33-3-1, 24 KOs) only the fourth and the 10th rounds.
Broner said he thought he did enough to win the fight. “I beat him,” he said. “Everybody out there knows I beat him. I controlled the fight, he was missing. I hit him clean more times. I beat him.”
Pacquiao maintained a strong pace throughout the fight, throwing 47 punches per round compared to Broner, who averaged almost half that output. Broner was limited to single-digit total connects in every round while Pacquiao exceeded double-digits five times.
“I wanted to push more but my trainer said don’t be careless,” Pacquiao said. “Wait for him, counter, and that’s what I did.”
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Online sportsbooks are giving Pacquiao the edge over Adrien Broner in every round according to the prop bets listed at BetOnline.
January 19th,2019, Manny Pacquiao is set to fight hisnext World Boxing Association (WBA) event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in LasVegas, NV. Pacquiao’s opponent Adrian Broner is a rising WBA star looking towin the Welterweight Championship event.
The BetOnline sportsbook currently has odds for many different outcomes for account holders who enjoy betting on boxing. Below you will see some of the prop bets available and the odds associated with those bets.
You can alsobet on individual rounds of the event or take a group bet that is also basedoff groups of rounds.
Pacquiao has held the current title of WBA Welterweight Champion since his win over Lucas Matthysse on July, 15th, 2018. In the fight, Pacquiao looked strong dropping Matthyssee on three separate occasions before getting the TKO win in round 7.
AdrianBroner is one of the most popular fighters in boxing and a four-division worldchampion. His last fight against Jessie Vargas in April 2018 resulted in a drawafter 12 rounds of boxing.
Pacquiao vs.Broner will air Saturday, January 19th,2019 on Showtime PPV with live coverage starting at 9 pm EST. Also listed on the fight card is Badou Jack (22-1-3) vs.Marcus Browne (22-0), Rue’Shee Warren (16-2) vs. Nordine Qubaali (14-0), and Jhack Tepora (22-0) vs. Hugo Ruiz(38-4).