By Keith Idec

Teddy Atlas admits the Internet isn’t something that occupies much of his time.

The trainer/ESPN analyst isn’t involved with Twitter and doesn’t read boxing message boards. Atlas still doesn’t understand all the backlash from fight fans and media to the third welterweight championship bout between the fighter he trains, Timothy Bradley, and Manny Pacquiao on April 9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Atlas believes Bradley (33-1-1, 13 KOs, 1 NC) won at least six rounds against Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) in their first fight, which Bradley won thanks to a highly controversial split decision in June 2012 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Atlas also thinks their April 2014 rematch was competitive until about the midway mark of that 12-rounder, when Bradley’s calf injury affected how he fought throughout the second half of a bout he lost by unanimous decision.

“The only thing as far as backlash I’ll look at is film,” Atlas told BoxingScene.com. “I’m a great believer in film, and using that as a tool to win and prepare. So I’ll look at the film. When I looked at the film, I don’t think there should be backlash. Because when I looked at it again, the first fight, I had Timmy winning six rounds. That’s a draw. That’s a draw in my book. I had him winning six rounds. If I look at it again – which I will look at it again, obviously – maybe I’d find something else. Maybe I’d say he won seven rounds. I don’t know, because I don’t say things for reasons other than what are meritable, as far as what I’m seeing, what I’m thinking. I don’t say it for reasons to create any kind of thing outside of what I believe. I’m not going to say it for any other purposes. But I saw that.

“And I also an injured fighter in the rematch, that had a torn calf muscle, being even at the midway point of that fight. He lost that second fight, but he was even in that fight [until the midway point]. So when I know that information, and I’m aware of that, that he was injured, and he was even up until that point, you know what I say? I say to myself, ‘I don’t see the backlash. I see a competitive fight. I see a reason for them to fight a third time.’ I think that’s the way I approach it.”

Atlas added that as of Monday night Bradley hadn’t signed a contract, though he expects that to happen. Assuming Bradley finalizes his agreement sometime this week, Atlas won’t concern himself at all with the public’s perception of another Pacquiao-Bradley bout being broadcast by HBO Pay-Per-View.

“I don’t get caught up in who thinks it’s a good fight or not a good fight,” said Atlas, who began training Bradley before his ninth-round stoppage of Brandon Rios (33-3-1, 24 KOs) on Nov. 7 at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. “Once I know it’s a fight and it’s going to be a fight, and that I’m responsible for getting my fighter ready, I just think about winning the fight and doing what has to be done to win the fight, and nothing else.”

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.