Posted on 05/05/2015 7:29:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The more we learn about Manny Pacquiao's shoulder injury, the uglier it looks for all sides involved.
The shoulder injury Pacquiao suffered prior to his fight with Floyd Mayweather was much more serious than it initially sounded, and now it turns out that Pacquiao will need surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff.
While the immediate effect of the surgery is that it will sideline Pacquiao for up to a year and eliminate the already dim hopes for a rematch, the injury has caused a further mess as people try to figure out who knew about it, why it wasn't reported, and why Pacquiao was denied treatment prior to the fight.
According to Dashon Johnson, one of Pacquiao's sparring partners, the injury occurred a "few weeks" prior to the fight and that it was so significant the sparring partners were sent home because Pacquiao couldn't fight with the injury. Johnson said that he was instructed to keep it a secret.
Despite supposedly being unable to fully train in the weeks before the fight, Pacquiao signed a pre-fight medical questionnaire "under penalty of perjury" at the weigh-in with a check mark "No" next to the question, "Have you had any injury to your shoulders, elbow, or hands that needed evaluation or examination?"
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Glad I didn’t drop 99 bucks to watch that turkey.
Why was he even in the ring?
What the heck?
$100 MM reason why he was in the ring.
There is talk there might be a class action lawsuit claiming fraud.
Hooboy.
This might seriously kill off boxing, as so many felt ripped-off paying to watch this.
Pro boxing is about the gate not the fight.
There should be a class action lawsuit against Jamie Foxx for BUTCHERING the National Anthem.
Can I get the money I paid to see this fight back now? I’m feeling ripped off.
How many Cartel people are pi$$ed off about this little oops? How much money was lost because of it? The fallout will be severe all the way around. IMO.
Has there been any long period in boxing where there hasn’t been scandals and shananigans that played the fans for fools? At this point the fans should have known better.
Even if there was no scandal, the fact that one of the main characters was allowed to duck the fight until the two opponents were past their prime cheated the sport from one of the greatest fights in history. It also contributed to making boxing into a joke.
More importantly, think about those who knew about the injury and bet Mayweather. That’s the crime here.
the Filipino cartel?
-PJ
Pac man may be a dead man
I would say he is now in serious jeopardy at the hands of certain parties who bet on him.
“Meet Mr. Bonk. He’s a bat. He likes kneecaps.”
We watched it for free due to a glitch on our network and I felt ripped off.
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