By Rick Reeno
WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley has come out swinging after reading some of the recent stories on BoxingScene.com. Bradley thought it was time to issue a proper response after reading one story where WBA champion Amir Khan made a pre-fight prediction that he would beat Bradley down and knock him out, and then reading another story where Khan's trainer Freddie Roach called him a bum.
"I beat a dude [Miguel Vazquez] who beat the dude [Breidis Prescott] who knocked him out....so who's the bum now man? Who's the bum now? He owes a mandatory for about a year now, Marcos Maidana. He's shying away from every person in the game. Then goes after [Paulie] Malignaggi and now he goes after [Juan] Diaz, who is not a puncher, and [Juan Manuel] Marquez, who is not a puncher. He's shying away from all of the big punchers in the game.....because the chin is suspect," Bradley told BoxingScene.com.
Recently, Khan made a public challenge to Bradley on his twitter page. Following the challenge, Bradley's promoter Gary Shaw reached out to Golden Boy Promotions, who handle Khan. Shaw and Bradley are waiting to hear back from Golden Boy. Bradley would like to fight Khan on December 11, and there wouldn't be any issues with making the fight in England. At the end of the day, Bradley is not holding his breath. He doesn't see the fight happening in the near future.
As of this moment, Bradley plans to watch Devon Alexander defend his WBC/IBF titles against Andrey Kotelnik on August 7. If Alexander wins, HBO wants to match him against Bradley on January 29. If a deal with Alexander falls through, Bradley wants to fight again in November/December.
"I'm waiting to hear from back from Golden Boy to see if Amir is really going to do this fight in December. The stakes are too high for Golden Boy. I don't think they want to risk that right now. Amir Khan can pretty much, can basically kiss my ass until he steps up to fight somebody with a big name or steps up to fight me. He's a bum in my eyes. That's the way I feel about it. They have my number. If he wants to get down, then let's get it done," Bradley said.
"He's soft man. He's softer than baby sh*t. He's got a voice. He can tell them who he wants to fight. These guys are like 'oh, that fight is kind of dangerous, we have to protect our investment.' You say you the best, then come fight. Let's do it. Amir has a December date. Let's get it poppin. I have my passport. I'll even fax my passport to you, you can put on the website with my picture."
Bradley was quite amused when hearing about an "imposter Tim Bradley" getting Khan riled up on his twitter account. The imposter fooled Khan, among many other people. Bradley found out about the imposter when his good friend, Andre Berto, called him up to laugh about the "war on twitter." Bradley began to laugh and told Berto - "I don't even have a twitter account."
