{"id":40205,"date":"2009-11-11T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123703"},"modified":"2009-11-11T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:30:28","slug":"fight-night-round-4-and-everyone-else-on-planet-earth-predicts-a-pacquiao-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40205","title":{"rendered":"Fight Night Round 4 (and everyone else on planet earth) predicts a Pacquiao win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/manny.jpg\" alt=\"manny\" title=\"manny\" width=\"250\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-123704\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know something about <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/07\/dont-forget-to-see-fedor-knock-out-rogers-both-of-ea-sports-mma-tonight\/\">MMA<\/A>, but I know next to nothing about boxing. Yet even I can laugh about the latest EA Sports prediction, via <i>Fight Night Round 4<\/i>, that says that Manny Pacquiao will beat Miguel Cotto this weekend. I laugh because saying Pacquiao will win the fight is like saying the sun will rise in the morning. (Now watch Cotto knock out Pacquiao in the first.)<\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest simulation that EA Sports has run with its games. The most recent one, that the Philadelphia Phillies <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/28\/mlb-09-the-show-predicts-a-phillies-win-in-7-games-take-that-yankees\/\">would beat<\/A> the New York Yankees in seven games <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/05\/so-much-for-that-mlb-09-the-show-prediction\/\">didn&#8217;t exactly pan out<\/A>. <\/p>\n<p>EA Sports has also predicted that the Cleveland Cavaliers <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/22\/nba-live-10-predicts-a-cavs-win-this-season-and-lebron-will-dominate-all-over-again\/\">will win the NBA Finals<\/A> this year, and that the Pittsburgh Penguins <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/01\/nhl-10-predicts-the-pittsburgh-penguins-as-stanley-cup-champs\/\">will win the Stanley Cup<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>Did EA Sports already do a UEFA Champions League prediction yet? (I imagine after the seeding we&#8217;ll see a FIFA World Cup prediction.)<\/p>\n<p>And now we play the waiting game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/4HD9m8EGVhONSpJ0kq-yISjwawg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/4HD9m8EGVhONSpJ0kq-yISjwawg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/4HD9m8EGVhONSpJ0kq-yISjwawg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/4HD9m8EGVhONSpJ0kq-yISjwawg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=gsKVpaj7IpY:oGfMNBYojvA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=gsKVpaj7IpY:oGfMNBYojvA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=gsKVpaj7IpY:oGfMNBYojvA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=gsKVpaj7IpY:oGfMNBYojvA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=gsKVpaj7IpY:oGfMNBYojvA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know something about MMA, but I know next to nothing about boxing. Yet even I can laugh about the latest EA Sports prediction, via Fight Night Round 4, that says that Manny Pacquiao will beat Miguel Cotto this weekend. I laugh because saying Pacquiao will win the fight is like saying the sun will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}