This photo does not show Keith Thurman’s fractured ribs after his fight with Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao
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- Published on August 14, 2019 at 10:30
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- By AFP Philippines
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The video was published on YouTube here on July 23, 2019, where it has been viewed more than 880,000 times.
The Tagalog language headline of the video translates to English as: "BECAUSE OF A PUNCH, THURMAN'S BROKEN RIBS WERE SEEN ON XRAY."
Below is a screenshot of the video:
Pacquiao defeated Thurman in a welterweight fight in Las Vegas on July 21, 2019. Here is AFP’s article about the fight. In this report, there is no mention of Thurman breaking his ribs during the fight.
The YouTube video was also shared on Facebook here and here with a similar claim.
The video, which is three minutes and 45 seconds in length, shows a sequence of the fight in which Pacquiao punches Thurman with his left fist. At the three minutes 30 seconds mark, it then shows a photo of an X-ray.
Below is a screenshot of the video at the point:
A reverse image search on Google found the same image in this YouTube video published on October 12, 2016.
The photo of the X-ray can be seen at the 28 seconds mark in the video. The video is embedded below:
Below is a screenshot comparison of the misleading photo (L) with the photo on the 2016 Youtube video (r) with the corresponding features circled in red:
The video was uploaded under the account Dr.ERtv, which was created by an emergency physician named Dr. Carlo Oller.
An online search for Dr. Carlo Oller found his Twitter account here.
He is listed as an emergency medicine director by the Cartersville Medical Center, in Cartersville, Georgia, USA, in an official document here.
The post has been shared 555 times on Facebook according to FB data here.
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