{"id":77376,"date":"2025-07-20T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77376\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:52:11","slug":"im-sick-manny-pacquiao-vs-mario-barrios-controversy-sets-off-boxing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77376\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m sick’: Manny Pacquiao vs. Mario Barrios controversy sets off boxing world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao appeared to have made history on Saturday in his much-maligned comeback bout against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios. But then the judges took it away.<\/p>\n

Despite winning on the majority of scorecards from both his fellow fighters and boxing analysts online, Pacquiao’s return from a four-year retirement ended in a controversial majority draw<\/a>, helping Barrios to leave Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena with his WBC title intact.<\/p>\n

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Two judges scored the contest a 114-114 draw, while one judge had it 115-113 for Barrios.<\/p>\n

Had the 46-year-old Pacquiao won, he would’ve made history as the second-oldest fighter in boxing history to capture a major world title.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao was a significant underdog on BetMGM<\/a> coming into the bout against a man 16 years his junior.<\/p>\n

The contentious result ignited instant outrage across the boxing world, with many of Pacquiao’s peers decrying the judges’ assessments and feeling as if the Hall of Famer was robbed of a historic moment.<\/p>\n

Check out some of that reaction below, including commentary from pound-for-pound stars Shakur Stevenson, Claressa Shields and more.<\/p>\n

For full coverage of Pacquiao vs. Barrios including live results, play-by-play and highlights of the entire Manny Pacquiao vs. Mario Barrios pay-per-view card, check out Uncrowned’s Pacquiao vs. Barrios hub.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao appeared to have made history on Saturday in his much-maligned comeback bout against WBC welterweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53510,53509,53511,51,53508,24475,24476,50,44184,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-77376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-claressa-gwoat-shields","9":"tag-claressa-shields","10":"tag-george-quotferociousquot-kambosos-jr","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-majority-draw","13":"tag-manny-pacquiao","14":"tag-mario-barrios","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-shakur-stevenson","17":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114884243845794829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}