Date | March 15, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title(s) on the line | WBC and vacant The Ring super featherweight titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pacquiao wins via 12-round split decision (115-112, 112-115, 113-114) [1] |
Juan Manuel Márquez vs. Manny Pacquiao II, billed as Unfinished Business, was a junior-lightweight title boxing match. The bout took place on March 15, 2008 at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States and was distributed by HBO PPV. [2] [3] The fight is second of the Pacquiao-Márquez tetralogy.
Pacquiao defeated Márquez via split decision, knocking down Márquez once in the third round. Two of the judges scored 115-112 and 114-113 for Pacquiao, while the third judge scored 115-112 in favor of Márquez. [1] After the fight, Pacquiao admittedly considered this fight as his most difficult fight since their first match in 2004. [4]
With the victory, Pacquiao became the first Asian boxer to win world titles in four different weight classes. [5]