BRADLEY speaks on KHAN fight not happening---"Hopefully we will meet in the future"

[awas88]

WBC and WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley said a July fight against WBA champion Amir Khan will not happen, but he has not ruled out fighting the British star later this year.

“Right now I'm not fighting Amir Khan,” Bradley said in an exclusive interview. “Unfortunately, we couldn't come to terms. “I'm ready and willing to go and available for other opportunities. “


Immediately after Bradley's fight, there was talk he would face Khan in a July 23 bout in Las Vegas or Los Angeles. The fight was to be televised by HBO.


Negotiations have been back and forth. Reports have said the sticking point was money, and the fight was declared dead over a week ago. But new reports this week by ESPN's Dan Rafael said Khan and his promoters, Golden Boy Promotions, sweetened the deal, giving Bradley a share of the pay-per-view revenues in Great Britain. It was also reported Bradley, who is expecting his first child in August with wife Monica, would have made $1.4 million for the fight, which would have been his career high.

“I'd rather not discuss the private negotiations in public out of respect to the people involved,” Bradley said. “Hopefully, Khan and I will meet in the future.”

There has been reports that Bradley's camp is sitting out until his contract with promoter Gary Shaw runs out at the end of June. Shaw had the rights to the July fight based on the two-fight deal with HBO.

Bradley said he would not comment further on the situation.

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Dan Rafael:

I asked Gary Shaw for a clarification on Bradley. Did he reject the offer made for @amirkingkhan or the fight outright? Gary said the fight outright

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[P.K]

Bradley simply has some fear to lose to Khan, who would give a gurantee of only 100k more than any other bum.

The UK PPV would have added nicely, but oh well.

[Cubanborn87]

foking pussi, i guess he can jus keep fokin dat ugly fat mexican bytch and raise her kids instead lmao

[Rome-By-Ko]

WBC and WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley said a July fight against WBA champion Amir Khan will not happen, but he has not ruled out fighting the British star later this year.

“Right now I'm not fighting Amir Khan,” Bradley said in an exclusive interview. “Unfortunately, we couldn't come to terms. “I'm ready and willing to go and available for other opportunities. “


Immediately after Bradley's fight, there was talk he would face Khan in a July 23 bout in Las Vegas or Los Angeles. The fight was to be televised by HBO.


Negotiations have been back and forth. Reports have said the sticking point was money, and the fight was declared dead over a week ago. But new reports this week by ESPN's Dan Rafael said Khan and his promoters, Golden Boy Promotions, sweetened the deal, giving Bradley a share of the pay-per-view revenues in Great Britain. It was also reported Bradley, who is expecting his first child in August with wife Monica, would have made $1.4 million for the fight, which would have been his career high.

“I'd rather not discuss the private negotiations in public out of respect to the people involved,” Bradley said. “Hopefully, Khan and I will meet in the future.”

There has been reports that Bradley's camp is sitting out until his contract with promoter Gary Shaw runs out at the end of June. Shaw had the rights to the July fight based on the two-fight deal with HBO.

Bradley said he would not comment further on the situation.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2011...text|Frontpage

Easy to see this has everything to do with Shaw..Where did you find this??

[Uncle Sam]

Easy to see this has everything to do with Shaw..

Yes it does, with that said Tim needs to man up and let the world know what his intentions are. Fuck this "private" bullshit. Shaw has been plastering the details of the negotiations to every boxing site that will listen. Uncle Tom.

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

This is whats hurting our sport. I'm glad that boxers are more independent than MMA fighters (UFC) in that they control who they fight but on the flipside, sometimes they can prevent us from seeing the fights we wanna see.

[The_Golden_Goy]

I believe this is what most sensible fans knew would happen. Bradley would release a statement saying nothing of note, and that he wanted Khan in the future.

personally I'm not so sure Bradley and Khan will meet at 140lbs anymore, Bradley has made no secret of his desire to move up to 147lbs and he only really was going to stick around for the Khan fight. Now i believe he'll take a mid-level fight at 147lbs, before trying to to win a belt and going for bigger fights.

This leaves Khan able to unify and, somewhat disappointingly, lay claim to be the best at 140lbs without fighting Bradley. He'll be the best by default in a way, which will hurt Khan and only give the Bradley fans something to make noise about.

But it should not be forgotten that Khan wanted this fight more than any other trying TWICE to get it made, even giving Bradley a bigger cut of the UK PPV (and try to get the Khan family to be generous with money is like getting blood from a stone).

Unfortunatley the ones who lose out are us fans, again. Deprived of a fight that should happen for so many reasons, but for silly polictical and out-of-ring reasons, it isnt. I can only hope they make it happen at 147lbs.

[danny711]

The man is waiting for a Manny fight. It sucks because the Khan/Bradley fight would have been good and brought the 140 "tourney" to completion.

I do understand that Timmy has a shot at Pac and I can't fault him for it. These fighters build themselves up for years to get the big shot. Now it's in sight for Timmy and he's not going to try and get it.

[Kagami Taiga]

honestly, the guys u should be blaming for this more than anything is shaw and arum. im not gonna say anymore, but timmy is gonna take a major hit for this one, and partially, he should.

[strykr619]

Capt Obvious is staring yall in the face. He wants to go to Top Rank. Bradley wants the big payday's. The Khan fight will happen, when he is with Top Rank LOL....

I hate Arum but this **** is funny.