{"id":464247,"date":"2022-11-30T05:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=464247"},"modified":"2022-11-30T05:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:23:35","slug":"veteran-reference-admits-he-cheated-in-order-to-ensure-a-manny-pacquiao-victory-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/veteran-reference-admits-he-cheated-in-order-to-ensure-a-manny-pacquiao-victory-in-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran referee admits he cheated in order to ensure a Manny Pacquiao victory in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Carlos Padilla has admitted he cheated in order to help <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/manny-pacquiao-announces-retirement-issues-heartfelt-farewell-to-boxing-fans\/\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> avoid defeat against Nedal Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Within the boxing community, few fighters are as beloved as Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of the most accomplished boxers of his generation and, arguably, of all-time. Whenever he stepped into the squared circle he always made sure to give the fans his best. In the process, he almost always put on a show to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2000, however, he was relatively unknown. One of his bouts that year took place against Australian star Nedal Hussein who some saw as the favourite heading into the contest.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the fight, Hussein dropped Pacquiao in the fourth round with the referee giving him an unusually long 10-count.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Padilla has openly admitted that he did, in fact, give a long count.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nedal &quot;Skinny&quot; Hussein vs. Manny Pacquiao - The Knock Down\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSI-TnZD2LY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cManny was not a world champion yet, he was only good in the Philippines,\u201d Padilla said. \u201cThat fight, I\u2019m about to go and leave the following day and they told me, \u2018Carlos, please, this is an important fight for Pacquiao, because the winner will have the chance to fight for the world championship.\u2019 So, you know the opponent, Hussein, or whatever his name was. He is taller, younger, stronger, and a dirty fighter, managed by Jeff Fenech. So in the seventh (fourth) round, I think, Manny got knocked down, I thought he was going to get up, but his eyes were cross-eyed.<\/p>\n<h3>Pacquiao&#8217;s lucky day<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI am Filipino, and everybody watching the fight is Filipino, so I prolonged the count. I know how to do it. When he got up, I told him, \u2018Hey, are you okay?\u2019 Still prolonging the fight. \u2018Are you okay? Okay, fight!\u2019 And then Hussein\u2026 because Manny was not like Manny is now, he wasn\u2019t trained by Freddie Roach yet, he holds on for his dear life, and the guy throws him, and he went down again. I said to the opponent, \u2018Hey, you don\u2019t do this.\u2019 You know, I was prolonging the fight. \u2018You don\u2019t do that. Okay, judges, [point] deduction.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/manny-pacquiao-boxing-referee-cheating-28600268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirror<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Should Manny Pacquiao be stripped of this win? Let us know in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Carlos Padilla has admitted he cheated in order to help Manny Pacquiao avoid defeat against Nedal Hussein. Within the boxing community, few fighters are as beloved as Manny Pacquiao. He&#8217;s one of the most accomplished boxers of his generation and, arguably, of all-time. Whenever he stepped into the squared circle he always made sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":392829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10107,10106],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Veteran referee admits he cheated in order to ensure a Manny Pacquiao victory in 2000 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Referee Carlos Padilla has admitted he cheated in order to help Manny Pacquiao avoid defeat against Nedal Hussein.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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