Las Vegas: Yordeni Tugger Cuba sent Manny Pacquiao to spin into a dramatic dramatic defeat on Saturday, beating the Philippine boxing icon with a round point victory consisting of the T-Mobile Arena.
In his first battle after missing two years of the ring, Pacquiao was made to see every bit of 42 years when the younger attachment dominated with the jab and stinging cleaners to maintain the WBA welterweight belt.
Putaskas, 35, has just been designed to face Pacquiao earlier this month after the original eight world division opponents, Errol Spence Jr.
suffer an eye injury in training.
But the defending champion captured his chance brilliantly to win on the three cards, with one judge scored 115-113 and two others 116-112.
It was a sweet victory for the duty, who had been awarded the WBA title after Pacquiao was stripped of belts with the body of sanctions earlier this year to be inactive.
His defeat is almost certain to renew doubts about the future of Pacquiao in sports he has graced 72 fights covering 26 years since 1995.
But Pacquiao can have a few complaints about the eighth defeat of his glittering career.
Although the Philippines aggressive, advancing with conoctions from the round, some of his blows did cause damage to the exact, which cleverly used the benefits in reach and high to make Pacquiao frustrated.
Inko while scoring a goal consistent with a sharper blow that often rocked Pacquiao back on his heels.
JAB lived in the exact jol caused a problem for Pacquiao throughout, and he repeatedly made damage with a series of strong rights.
After the opening of Cagey, he quickly confirmed himself in the middle of the middlelight, surprising Pacquiao with a combination of left-right in the fifth place before ending the six correctly correctly.
The T-Mobile crowd 17,438 tried to replace Pacquiao with the singing of “Manny, Manny” throughout but the legion of the Filipino admirer was increasingly calm when the round was wearing.
Pacquiao, with a group of red marks on his cheeks and his forehead proof of the exact effectiveness, continued to advance when he was looking for a big round to change the skin of the contest.
But the duty will not be rejected, and he has Pacquiao scrambling to defensive once again after landing a double left and the right hook in quick succession at 10, before closing the last round to win.