ni Gilbert Espeña

NANINIWALA si Mexican four-division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez na nasisira ang boksing dahil sa mga opisyal tulad ng mga hurado na nagbigay ng panalo kay Jeff Horn na kontrobersiyal na naagaw ang WBO welterweight title kay Pambansang Kamao Manny Pacquiao.

Apat na beses nakaharap ni Marquez si Pacquiao kaya kilalang-kilala niya ang Pinoy boxer na pinalasap niya ng pagkatalo via 6th round knockout sa Las Vegas, Nevada noong Disyembre 8, 2012.

Nagulat si Maruez sa iskor ng mga hurado na 115-113, 117-111 at 115-113 gayong halos itigil na ang sagupaan sa 9thround ng laban na bugbog-sarado si Horn.

“Jeff Horn made a good fight but the judges were wrong, they were wrong again to give him the decision and the world knows. I had him (Pacquiao) winning by four points and somehow I think it should have been like that,” sabi ni Marquez sa ESPN Deportes.

“People say that boxing no longer makes sense, but boxing is not to blame. You have to put the blame on judges who know that they should be doing their jobs well. There is no way that you can blame boxing, it’s the [officials], from the judges to the promoters and even the referee,” diin ng Mexican boxing legend. “The referee, for example, he never took a point [from Horn] for use of the head or elbow... those people are the ones that are ruining boxing.”

Nagulat din si Marquez na hindi napatigil ni Pacquiao si Horn sa 10th round kaya nagkaroon ng pagkakataon ang Aussie boxer na makarekober.

“[I saw the fight with] Pacquiao. Well, what surprised me was when he had Horn in bad shape in the ninth, and then he did not go after him in the tenth - and that was a mistake because that round went to Horn,” dagdag ni Marquez. “When the referee told Horn to show him something so he wouldn’t stop the fight, Horn came out with everything and at that moment Pacquiao was surprised and also [Freddie] Roach was surprised.”