Manny Pacquiao retained his WBA world welterweight title after 12 rounds of dominating Adrien Broner for a convincing victory determined by points.
The Filipino, 40, landed 112 of 568 blows while barely receiving any throughout the match. Broner, who had spent the days before the bout creating controversies, proved to be more talk and less action when it mattered. He landed only 50 of 295 blows, and had no more than seven blows in any round.
“I proved in my last fight against (Lucas) Matthysse and now I proved it again. The Manny Pacquiao journey will still continue,” he said. “I wanted to push more, but my trainer said, ‘Don’t be careless. Wait for him, counter,’ and that’s what I did.”
After the match, the 40-year-old challenged Mayweather to a rematch.
“Tell (Floyd) to come back to the ring and we will fight,” Pacquiao said. “I’m willing to fight again with Floyd Mayweather if he’s willing to come back to boxing.”
Mayweather, who was also in the arena, digressed from Pacquiao’s challenge and instead commented on the match, calling it “a chess matchup.”
Broner, on the other hand, expressed his discontentment at the outcome of the bout, claiming to have won. Everyone in the arena laughed at him before booing,
“I beat him,” he said despite being dominated throughout the match. “I clearly won the last seven.”
The three judges in the arena awarded Pacquiao the win at 117-111, 116-112, and 116-112.
