Comments Thread For: Devon Alexander: Bradley, Stop Making Excuses and Fight!

[bray26]

http://video.boxingscene.com/filess/bradley91910.wmv

This fight will happen,you have to understand Bradley is in the driver seat and loving it...He is also helping hype this fight right now..If they both already signed this fight it would not happen till Jan and where would the hype be??Now there is hype about where Bradley might go after his contract is up with Shaw..Bradley is scared.Talk's about Bradley and Khan,Ortiz ..You see what I'm putting down??Talk the fight will happen hear what Bradley said in the very start of the vid...

You make a good point! It does keep the fight being talked about instead of signed and just being waited for. I guess I've just never been a fan of all the BS that goes along with hype and promotion. Whatever fans he loses in this mess I'm sure will return if he turns in a great performance. Just can really backfire if he loses!

[Chunk..]

Alexander can't say **** about anybody after his last performance.

[Big Lou]

Wake and Stop Being Foolish

Stop making excuses. Alexander didn't have an "off night". He was schooled, outclassed, humiliated and dominated by a superior fighter. That was the worst robbery I have ever seen. Kotelnik is the REAL WBC/IBF Light Welterweight champion of the world.

Robbery, or you crazy!?! Dan Rafeal didn't think so. Neither guy was really hurt, Kotelnik won the jab battle, and Alexander won the powershot battle. If you think that earns him 2 belts in someone else's back yard, you must be crazy. You gotta do more then that baby. Kotelnik got the same treatment that Madiana recieved when he lost a close decision to Kotelnik on his turf.


Keep watching as this young man takes over the game!

[V.WEBB]

These dudes are still talking. Man, I tell ya, my excitement for this fight just isn't where it was before.

[throbk1974]

if these 2 were in the UFC, we'd be getting ready to watch the rematch!

[Steelhammer2011]

FAO: Big Lou

You're a delusional moron.

Alexander was hitting air and gloves all night. He BARELY landed any clean punches.

Kotelnik controlled the fight, he was the elusive aggressor from start to finish, he landed more punches and was landing the harder, cleaner, more accurate, more effective punches.

Kotelnik dominated Alexander. It wasn't a close fight.

Read this article:

Russ Anber: Winning in America against American fighters is difficult

As I started to write this blog about the upcoming WBC world light-heavyweight title fight between world champion Jean Pascal and undefeated contender "Bad" Chad Dawson, the Don King promoted "Gateway to Greatness" card was about to begin live on HBO.

Headlining the attractive card was undefeated IBF and WBC light-welterweight champion Devon Alexander putting his title on the line against former champion and the 2000 Olympic silver medalist, Andriy Kotelnick.

Alexander was coming off an impressive eight round stoppage of durable war horse, Juan Urango, while Kotelnik was looking to erase the memory of his one-sided loss to Amir Khan in their meeting one year ago.

This was a good looking card, but in my mind it would still receive second billing to the Pascal-Dawson preview, which I was about to start writing.

All that would change, however, when three American judges; Jerry Roth, Oren Shellenberger and Denny Nelson who were either myopic, incompetent or just plain corrupt, offered up three identical scores of 116-112 in favour of the defending champion Devon Alexander. Add to that the even more ridiculous scorecard of HBO's "unofficial scorekeeper" Harold Lederman, and you have what might be one the most blatantly biased decisions rendered in an American ring in recent memory.

Before we go any further, I would like to start off by giving Devon Alexander an A+ for effort, as he showed a lot of heart in trying to turn around a fight which began slipping away as early as the second round. More importantly, however, I have to give Kotelnik credit for a masterful, surgical performance as he dominated Alexander with clean hard punches and pin point accuracy.

While it is true that Alexander was often the busier of the two, Kotelnik was clearly the aggressor and definitely the more accurate puncher. In my opinion, Alexander missed the target so often he looked like he was shadow boxing for the better part of the 12 rounds against the elusive Kotelnik. With hands held high, Kotelnik constantly stalked the fleet-footed Alexander and made him pay dearly every time Alexander missed. The Kotelnik right hand was a thing of beauty, and the fluidity of his punches were truly something to behold.

While there are many things which have changed in the sport over the last 10-15 years, perhaps the biggest change has been the emergence of world class fighters from the former Soviet bloc and other countries, who in the past never quite figured into the pro boxing landscape. Much like the heavyweight division, America is quickly losing the stranglehold it once held on the sport. While still a power, it is evident that more and more world champions are being reared in places on the planet other than the U.S. or Latin countries, and this is not making U.S. television very happy.

In the end of what was a brilliant contest, a new champion should have been crowned Saturday night in St. Louis. Instead, the sport of boxing now sports another black eye. Three judges, who should know better, rendered a decision which by all circumstances can be construed as nothing but bias and pro-American.

Is it merely a coincidence that such a horrific decision, robbing Andriy Kotelnik of a world title, comes at a time when negotiations are ongoing between Devon Alexander and Timothy Bradley for a showdown in January on HBO?

Please, don't ever let me hear another American media member, promoter, boxer, manager, trainer or anyone else for that matter EVER criticize again, how impossible it is for an American to win on Canadian or European soil. On Saturday night, three American judges proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that winning in America against an American fighter, especially one who has a TV contract, is becoming increasingly more difficult. Ask Kotelinik, or for that matter, ask Simon Brown!

Oh, Simon Brown! Please don't get me started again!!!!

[wylout]

This is Bradley posturing for more money from Shaw. How many times have we read about Bradley talking $$$$? And how many times has Devon talked $$$?

HBO wants this fight for Jan 29 and Bradley wants his payday. The fight is gonna happen.

Now for those who are downplaying Alexander's skill...well....even Bradley admitted that Devon had an "off night" on 8/7. Bradley knows that's not the fighter he'll get Jan 29.

Devon had an off night and never had his usual snap from the first bell. Think about it. He sat in his locker room and watched his former mentor get destroyed on the TV. He had to headline his first show and was running all over the STL doing various promotional appearances. Those issues would affect any 23 year old kid who had his first true shot at the big show. Devon showed the heart of a champion by digging deep and gutting out a win vs one of the most rugged 140'lbrs out there.

Go ahead and write off Devon. That's cool with me as I'll be the one at the betting window getting that fat + money from all the dead money you naysayers will be posting.

cosign, you sound like you know D

[wylout]

If you look at what I wrote the poster claimed that Bradley made the same/less money for fighting Nate when there is no evidence to prove it..I believe he was offered 150k(I may be wrong)to fight Devon(Once again I might be wrong)but there are no documents to prove what Bradley was paid to fight Nate..But I think that's what I remember..But if you have any info I'm all ears..But I know for a fact he got offered more to fight Campbell then Devon,Nate was more of a name at that point...Bradley is having problems with his own promoter not Devon's..Fact of the matter is yes,yes his next fight will be with Shaw but business is business and Shaw want's an extension on Bradley's contract which is unfair Bradley should not be bound to Shaw like his mule..Braldey has the right to shop around that's all I was trying to say..This poster(and even you)are trying to make it seem like an excuse when really it's a man's life and lively hood at stake and he wants to make the right decision for him and his family..Bradley never stated having a problem with the money being offered,it was the contract extension he has the problem with which would make him Shaw's fighter for the next two years more then likely..My real problem with the poster was he was calling Bradley a *****..The fight with the best resume at 140lb is a ***** it does not make sense..Does it too you??If you have any info on the money that was being discussed for the first bout with Devon and Bradley I would love to hear it..But my man wyout told me him self what the numbers was when they first talk bout fighting and noway it was more then he got to fight with Nate and Nate was more of a name at that point..All I was saying was his info was off but yet he delivered it as the truth...You have to correct that..No??

rome u know i told u before that bradley got 125k for nate cambell and u know my sources

[kc1]

You clowns think he won because devon did'nt ko him. All three judges had it 116-112. Bring on bradley.

[kc1]

Hey timmy your only 27 not 37, once devon beats you there is time for another payday.