Manny Pacquiao gets an eye injury and his house robbed while away beating Adrien Broner
- Pacquiao’s Los Angeles home reportedly burgled while he was in Las Vegas
- Filipino’s camp play down fears he suffered career-threatening detached retina
The eye injury Manny Pacquiao suffered in a unanimous-decision win over Adrian Broner is a scratched cornea, and the Filipino ring icon is already on the mend, a spokesman for Pacquiao’s camp said on Monday.
The New York Daily News had reported that some in Pacquiao’s camp feared he had suffered a potentially career-threatening detached retina in beating Broner to retain the World Boxing Association “regular” welterweight world title – the lesser of two WBA welterweight belts to that of unbeaten US “super champion” Keith Thurman.
In fact, the 40-year-old fighter had already shed his eye patch and was feeling fit enough to attend Monday night’s NBA game between the reigning champion Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Centre.
But the eye injury – possibly caused by loose tape on Broner’s gloves – wasn’t the only bad news for Pacquiao in an otherwise productive weekend.
A Los Angeles home owned by Pacquiao was burgled while he was in Las Vegas, sources said, but it wasn’t immediately clear what was taken.
It’s not the first time a prominent sportsman has had a home burgled in Los Angeles.