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By Robert Morales - It was the kind of victory you sort of want to throw back. After sitting down with Timothy Bradley on Tuesday, it seemed like he almost felt that way about his win over Manny Pacquaio on June 9, 2012.
Sitting inside a dressing room at Fortune Gym in Hollywood, Calif., Bradley entertained a reporter while Top Rank Inc. spokesman Lee Samuels listened in. About eight minutes into what turned out to be a 15-minute conversation, Bradley was asked straight out if the joy he should have felt by defeating Pacquiao was taken away by the hoopla surrounding his controversial split decision win.
"Yes, absolutely," said Bradley, who will defend the welterweight title he took from Pacquiao on March 16 when he takes on Ruslan Provodnikov at Home Depot Center (on HBO). "There was really no joy in beating Pacquiao. There was really no joy after the fight itself. You know, all the backlash I took, all the comments I had to deal with. Walking down the street, feeling like, you know, that I got a gift was ... it's the worst feeling ever.
"Especially for an athlete and a person. To have people talk about you in the media and don't give you no credit whatsoever. Granted that I was injured during the fight, granted that I stayed in the fight; there was no positive out of it."
Bradley wasn't whining. He was simply showing a human side some don't want to show.
"The sucky part about the whole thing is that the perception of the public is that I lost that fight and that alone really killed me," Bradley said. "You know what I mean? It really killed me." [Click Here To Read More]
Sitting inside a dressing room at Fortune Gym in Hollywood, Calif., Bradley entertained a reporter while Top Rank Inc. spokesman Lee Samuels listened in. About eight minutes into what turned out to be a 15-minute conversation, Bradley was asked straight out if the joy he should have felt by defeating Pacquiao was taken away by the hoopla surrounding his controversial split decision win.
"Yes, absolutely," said Bradley, who will defend the welterweight title he took from Pacquiao on March 16 when he takes on Ruslan Provodnikov at Home Depot Center (on HBO). "There was really no joy in beating Pacquiao. There was really no joy after the fight itself. You know, all the backlash I took, all the comments I had to deal with. Walking down the street, feeling like, you know, that I got a gift was ... it's the worst feeling ever.
"Especially for an athlete and a person. To have people talk about you in the media and don't give you no credit whatsoever. Granted that I was injured during the fight, granted that I stayed in the fight; there was no positive out of it."
Bradley wasn't whining. He was simply showing a human side some don't want to show.
"The sucky part about the whole thing is that the perception of the public is that I lost that fight and that alone really killed me," Bradley said. "You know what I mean? It really killed me." [Click Here To Read More]
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