Comments Thread For: Timothy Bradley Calls for Father-Son Duos to Be Banned In Boxing

[paulf]

To say that it should be banned is simply ridiculous. I never said that it always works out. Different people do different things and to say what he said is short sighted.

Regardless if that are your thoughts so be it.

You said Tim Bradley didn't know what he was talking about.

If there's anyone on this planet that knows what they're talking about on this subject, it's Tim Bradley.

[crimsonfalcon07]

You said Tim Bradley didn't know what he was talking about.

If there's anyone on this planet that knows what they're talking about on this subject, it's Tim Bradley.

Why do you rate him so highly? He was a good boxer, but he's been terrible as a commentator. Are you perhaps Tim yourself?

[paulf]

Why do you rate him so highly? He was a good boxer, but he's been terrible as a commentator. Are you perhaps Tim yourself?

Yes. Yes I am.

[sasquatch88]

For my part, it's that he is very given to extreme statements, and his commentary almost always boils down to some variation on: "it's a chess match", "he needs to establish the jab," and "he's got to go to the body" followed by one of the following justifications: "Going to the body will open up the head shot that he's looking for"/"when you got those slick movers, you have to hit them to the body to slow them feet down"/"some guys you can't stop to the head, so you have to go to the body."

It's not that it's bad or wrong advice, it's that he very rarely says anything else. I could probably spend about 15 minutes collating stuff from various fights and string it together more or less at random and essentially duplicate his fight commentary for any given fight. In his defense, I could say the same about Sergio Mora, but it is still a far cry from other commentators who don't suck at their jobs.

Being good at boxing doesn't mean that you are good at commentary. He's interrupted his fellow commentators before to say three different variations on the exact same thing. Add to that the likelihood that he's going to make some statement that's extreme and inflammatory, and therefore has a high probability of being wrong, and his willingness to bring personal beefs into his work, and you have a high likelihood of getting quite a bit of vitriol.

If he doesn't like it (and I suspect he probably does, because he likes the attention), he needs to act more like a professional and keep the BS to a minimum. There's no benefit to his argument in acting like a Teofimo Lopez himself. He could just say "Teo and his dad say all kinds of ****** things and that type of behavior is toxic and not good for boxing" and most everyone would be like "yeah, Tim, those guys are dopes." But instead he chooses to make statements like this. If you're going to play ****** games, it stands to reason that you get ****** prizes.

So ****** comments get ****** responses? Kinda my point. All sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[crimsonfalcon07]

So ****** comments get ****** responses? Kinda my point. All sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Maybe if you are invested in missing the content entirely... Perhaps that's why you don't understand. You didn't respond at all to the substance.

I guess Tim has some diehard fanboys still. I get being a fan of him as a boxer, but this is about his current role as a commentator, and he's not good at that.