This fight will be made. It is smart business-wise for the Mayweather camp for 2 reasons.
1. Bradley has a win over Pacquiao(no matter what you think you saw). If Maywether beats Bradley(which is almost a guarantee), then he doesnt have to fight Pacquiao because he beat the guy who beat him. OR, he can go into negotiations for a Pacquiao fight with a larger chunk of the purse. What was 55 - 45 will easilit become 65 - 35 or worse.
2. Bradley is at least on paper a legit fight, so all the Sergio Martinez vs Mayweather talk goes away. Mayweather will kill 2 birds with one stone. He can avoid the threat that Martinez poses and save face because his fans will argue that Bradley was a better opponent anyway.
Obviously with Top Rank it'd never happen. Plus I don't think Floyd would want to fight him considering people would be pointing out everyone thought Pacquiao won, including his own father. Also I think it'd do terrible numbers. Granted my idea of terrible numbers for a Floyd fight are maybe under 1 million. I dunno it's a hard fight to sell. Cotto, Ortiz and Mosley all at least had that punches chance, what does Bradley have?
Its an easy sell to fringe boxing fans , and they are the biggest chunk of PPV payers , at the end of the day I dont think Arum would let Bradley get owned by Floyd , other than that it is a very good business fight for Floyd just the same .
Obviously with Top Rank it'd never happen. Plus I don't think Floyd would want to fight him considering people would be pointing out everyone thought Pacquiao won, including his own father. Also I think it'd do terrible numbers. Granted my idea of terrible numbers for a Floyd fight are maybe under 1 million. I dunno it's a hard fight to sell. Cotto, Ortiz and Mosley all at least had that punches chance, what does Bradley have?
it does 900k -1.1.M
and it will be a boring UD 12 by Mayweather.
wouldn't buy it.... Brdley's coming off getting dominated ... no one wants to see that