Sunday, May 3, 2015

LOOK: Pacqiuao-Mayweather Scorecard Anomaly Goes Viral

The photo of a scorecard showing that the judges scored in favor of Manny Pacqiuao has gone viral in less than 24 hours in Facebook.

After 12 rounds of boxing, Saranggani Congressman and boxing icon Manny Pacqiuao lost in the "Battle of Century" against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in unanimous decision. However, a viral photo of scorecard shows that Manny Pacqiuao won the fight.

Here is the controversial photo,

In this photo, Manny Pacqiuao is sitting in the red corner and his opponent Floyd Mayweather sits in the blue corner.

It can be seen in the scorecard that three judges scored the fight all in favor of the boxer sitting in the red corner which is Pacqiuao. The announcer however announced that the winner is still the undefeated boxing champion from the US.

This photo is viral right now in Facebook. It was posted by Facebook user Chris Cooke from Ireland according to his profile. He posted it few hours after the fight saying,
This is interesting, Paquiao was the Red corner, Mayweather was the Blue corner, official judges appeared to have given the points to Paquiao yet result was a reverse, look what is hand written in the bottom of the score card on the right?
 This photo has garnered 275,264 shares with millions of people asking about the truth. 
SOURCE (VIA)

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