IN an interesting innovation for the Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas showdown for the latter’s WBO welterweight title on Saturday in Las Vegas, Top Rank will let fans be the fourth judge for the fight via TRBoxing on Twitter.
Top Rank announced they will utilize Twitter’s (twitter.com/trboxing) polling functionality to allow fans to participate in each bout as a collective, unofficial “fourth judge.”
Fans who watch Saturday’s live pay-per-view telecast or catch it from a coveted seat at the Thomas & Mack Center will be able to easily vote on who they think is winning each undercard matchup, with the winner being announced on air prior to the official judges’ scorecards.
Top Rank announced that during the main event, fans will have the option to vote round-by-round.
The broadcast team of Stephen A. Smith, Brian Kenny, Charissa Thompson and Tim Bradley, Jr., will deliver updates in between rounds, with scorecard graphics appearing on-screen throughout the main event.
Employing this feature, fans are granted another avenue to engage with the historic night of world championship fights on November 5th.
The three additional world championship fights on the pay-per-view telecast include: four-division world champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire (37-3, 24 KOs), from General Santos City, Philippines, defending his WBO junior featherweight title against undefeated No. 1contender Jessie Magdaleno (23-0, 17 KOs), from Las Vegas; and newly-minted WBO featherweight champion and two-time Mexican Olympian Óscar Valdez (21-0, 18 KOs), from Nogales, Mexico, making his first title defense, against No. 1 contender Hiroshuge Osawa (30-3-4, 19 KOs), from Osaka, Japan.
The pay-per-view telecast which will be seen in the Philippines on ABS-CBN Sky Cable, Cignal TV, Solar Sports which holds the coverage rights and GMA 7, will open with the rematch between top-rated contenders Chinese Olympic icon Zou Zhiming (8-1, 2 KOs), from Guizhou, China, and Prasitak Papoem (39-1-2, 24 KOs), of Buriram, Thailand, battling for the vacant WBO flyweight world title.
