Manny Pacquiao: 'I thought I won the fight'
Floyd Mayweather Jr. won Saturday night's "Fight of the Century" in a unanimous judges' decision, but not everyone agreed with the result.
"I thought I won the fight," Manny Pacquiao said after the match. According to Pacquiao, Mayweather was "moving around" during the fight, and "he didn't do nothing."
"I thought I caught him many more times than he caught me," Pacquiao said of Mayweather. "I was never hurt. I was very surprised at the scores. I hit him more times than he hit me."
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Mayweather, meanwhile, called Pacquiao a "hell of a fighter." "I tip my hat off to Manny Pacquiao, now I see why he's one of the guys that's at the pinnacle in the sport of boxing," Mayweather said.
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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.
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