“I’ll hate to see the day Manny retires, but this could be it. We’ll see what Manny decides,” Roach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Saturday’s fight turns out to be his last, Pacquiao can have few complaints about the eighth defeat of a career that has encompassed 72 fights spanning 26 years since 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Filipino was aggressive throughout, advancing with flurries of punches from the opening round, few of his blows inflicted significant damage on Ugas, who cleverly used his advantages in reach and height to frustrate Pacquiao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ugas meanwhile scored consistently with crisper punches that often rocked Pacquiao back on his heels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ugas’s jolting left jab caused problems for Pacquiao throughout, and he repeatedly did damage with a series of powerful rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a cagey opening round, Ugas quickly asserted himself in the middle rounds, startling Pacquiao with a left-right combination in the fifth before ending the sixth with another hard right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A T-Mobile crowd of 17,438 tried to rally Pacquiao with chants of “Manny, Manny” throughout but the Filipino’s legion of admirers grew steadily more subdued as the rounds wore on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pacquiao, with a cluster of red marks on his cheek and forehead a testament to Ugas’s increasing accuracy and effectiveness, continued to come forward as he sought a big round to change the complexion of the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Ugas would not be denied, and he had Pacquiao scrambling onto the defensive once again after landing a double left jab and a right hook in quick succession in the 10th, before closing out the final rounds to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cuban fighter’s greater accuracy was reflected in the post-fight stats, which revealed that Pacquiao landed just 130 of a total of 815 punches thrown. Ugas landed 151 of 405 thrown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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