I heard the commentators giving Manny guff for being “distracted” by religion before the fight and well as being distracted by the NBA game (Manny is a Celtics fan and delayed the fight till the game was over). But even those guys (1 an old Black guy who was harsh in his criticism) had him winning in a near shutout. Bizarre. Boxing can’t afford this kind of nonsense anymore.
The commentators were disgusting before the fight and all of their snide remarks on Manny’s religious conversion.
For one, they showed HBO and the “beautiful peoples” utter contempt for God and religion. Secondly, why are they so surprised, Manny has always been a practicing Catholic, the Philippians is 90% Catholic, he simply became more devout.
Anyone whose watched Pac-Man fight from his early days knows he always prayed in the ring at first and after a fight and always wore his rosary.