Manny Pacquiao and Skip Bayless aren’t the only ones that thought Pacquiao beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is protesting the decision and won’t pay up on his bet until he’s given an explanation.
Hun Sen, who placed a $5,000 bet on the fight, reportedly gave a 15-minute speech Tuesday outlining what he thought to be an injustice toward Pacquiao, according to The Cambodia Daily. He said Mayweather won the unanimous decision because the fight was held on U.S. soil and scored by U.S. judges.
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“Yesterday, those of us watching couldn’t give a point for Floyd, but the three judges unanimously decided that Floyd won,” Hun Sen said. “I send a message to American judges to provide an explanation for why Floyd won … Floyd was just running around — blocking and avoiding — while Pacquiao repeatedly threw more and more punches, punching him to lie against the ropes.”
Though it might have seemed to the casual viewer that Pacquiao was the main aggressor in the match, final fight stats show Mayweather threw and landed more punches. Regardless, Hun Sen isn’t parting with his $5,000.
The punch stats proving pretty conclusive #MayPac http://t.co/vTqTKREIRr pic.twitter.com/eXCrcT9hy2
— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) May 3, 2015“Now if we are talking about yesterday’s fight, I owe you, but I will not pay,” he said. ““I didn’t expect that American judges would be so weak … I just know America clearly now. Judges made a unanimous decision to make a winner become a loser.”
An impassioned Hun Sen, who called for a rematch in China, said the only way Pacquiao would have won the fight in the eyes of American judges would be if Mayweather “was beaten to death.”
“Pacquiao doesn’t need to get disappointed because it’s an injustice created by judges,” he said. “If I were Floyd, I would consider (the match) a draw.”
Good luck convincing Mayweather to do that, Mr. Prime Minister.
A government spokesman tried to play down Hun Sen's diatribe by saying the prime ministers was "just joking."
It was not immediately clear where Hun Sen had placed the bet, but GMA News of the Philippines noted there are licensed casinos and a thriving black market for gambling in Cambodia.