{"id":18546,"date":"2012-12-10T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18546"},"modified":"2012-12-10T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:02:48","slug":"pacquiao-mayweather-superfight-dream-dies-with-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18546","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao-Mayweather Superfight Dream Dies With Knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 <strong>Juan Manuel Marquez<\/strong> carried more than eight years of frustration, disappointment and anger with him when he got into the ring with <strong>Manny Pacquiao<\/strong> on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden. After losing two and drawing one in three fights he had a right to believe he won, the bigger and stronger version of <strong>Marquez<\/strong> left no doubt this time around.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded one of the year\u2019s best fights in stunningly brutal fashion, catching <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> on the chin with a perfectly placed counter right hand, knocking the Filipino superstar out cold at 2:59 of the sixth round before an arena packed with his delirious fans.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> lay prone on the mat and<strong> Marquez<\/strong> and his fans celebrated, somewhere, <strong>Floyd Mayweather, J<\/strong>r. had to be kicking himself. The world\u2019s top boxer failed to sign a fight with <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> that would have been the richest bout of all-time. While it\u2019s not out of the question that <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> and <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> could still fight, the bout will never have the kind of luster it had when they were 1-2 in the rankings and both seemingly invincible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather\u2019s<\/strong> one-time close friend, hip hop star <strong>Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson<\/strong>, knew as referee <strong>Kenny Bayles<\/strong>s attended to <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> that it was equivalent to flushing millions down the drain. \u201cThat was a lot of money [going away],\u201d he said. <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> didn\u2019t show for the post-fight news conference. He walked out of the arena under his own power, but was taken to a local hospital for a CAT scan. The scan came back negative. In the ring after the fight, he said simply, \u201cI got hit with a punch I didn\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Juan Manuel Marquez carried more than eight years of frustration, disappointment and anger with him when he got into the ring with Manny Pacquiao on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden. After losing two and drawing one in three fights he had a right to believe he won, the bigger and stronger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}