Comments Thread For: Timothy Bradley: I Don't Need Amir Khan, He Needs Me!

[reetcunt]

Why would Arum wste his time signing him to "feed" him to Pac if he is a no-draw? He wants a plan B for when Pac is gone......would Pac be as big of a star if he weren't with Arum? No,of course not, his personality is too polite and he is too reserved.....he sells millions of tickets though doesn't he? If people keep seeing Bradley on Pac's PPV's and he keeps on winning.....the public will soon be begging for that fight. Just like music on the radio...keep hearing the same songs and hearing how people are saying that the songs are the greatest....what happens? They become top singles and make platinum albums regardless of how good you think they are......the power of suggestion and marketing strategy....Arum knows what he is doing.

Arum had no qualms in putting Cotto and Margarito up against Pac both of whom are more valuable commodities than Tim even with Marg's wraps scandal . Pacquiao is a bad example to compare to Bradley . Pac has a country behind him and drew 350 ,000 x 3 and 400,000 PPV buys for his fights against Morales and Marquez before he got worldwide mainstream recognition. Arum had no problem putting $$ behind him .Bradley has no fanbase and it would take a lot of investment and time to build him up . How many building up fights do you want Bradley to take before he becomes a "star"?

Do you know how much money Bob arum has made from these inhouse Pac fights? He has fed bigger stars And more marketable fighters to Pac than Tim Bradley, what makes you think he wouldn’t?

And he is not a draw as of right now that is pretty much fact Arum would have to inject some serious money into making Bradley a big draw and he is not going to do it to much risk. He can just build him up over the next 2 fights make sure he keeps his 0 then market Pac vs young undefeated champion next year.

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[Rome-By-Ko]

Bradley made the right choice deal with it...

[mathed]

Arum had no qualms in putting Cotto and Margarito up against Pac both of whom are more valuable commodities than Tim even with Marg's wraps scandal . Pacquiao is a bad example to compare to Bradley . Pac has a country behind him and drew 350 ,000 x 3 and 400,000 PPV buys for his fights against Morales and Marquez before he got worldwide mainstream recognition. Arum had no problem putting $$ behind him .Bradley has no fanbase and it would take a lot of investment and time to build him up . How many building up fights do you want Bradley to take before he becomes a "star"?




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Cotto had already lost to Margarito and Margs was tainted man, where is he now? Cotto is on the down slide, Margs is too, Pac is almost out of the sport and JCC is a prefabbed star living of his dad's legacy. JuanMa already caught his L and lost all of his steam, who else has he got to run with?

Bradley is clean cut, undefeated, a belt holder, a trash talker, and African American. If Alexander could be billed as the next Mayweather, then I'm pretty sure the much more talented Bradley could as well.

[Ray*]

Cotto had already lost to Margarito and Margs was tainted man, where is he now? Cotto is on the down slide, Margs is too, Pac is almost out of the sport and JCC is a prefabbed star living of his dad's legacy. JuanMa already caught his L and lost all of his steam, who else has he got to run with?

Bradley is clean cut, undefeated, a belt holder, a trash talker, and African American. If Alexander could be billed as the next Mayweather, then I'm pretty such the much more talented Bradley could as well.

Coming from you? Bradley is worse than Mayweather that you crucify all the time, He did a blatant duck and you are now trying to make out "He got. Better deal" with Arum? Lets wait and see how his career pans out with Arum in the next 3-4 years before we see how much of a better deal he got by ducking Khan for casamayor.

[reetcunt]

Cotto had already lost to Margarito and Margs was tainted man, where is he now? Cotto is on the down slide, Margs is too, Pac is almost out of the sport and JCC is a prefabbed star living of his dad's legacy. JuanMa already caught his L and lost all of his steam, who else has he got to run with?

Bradley is clean cut, undefeated, a belt holder, a trash talker, and African American. If Alexander could be billed as the next Mayweather, then I'm pretty such the much more talented Bradley could as well.

Yet Marg and Cotto are still much bigger draws than Bradley and Arum still fed them to Pac . You say yourself that Pac only has 2 -3 fights left . How the hell is that enough time to build up a guy like Bradley to PPV status ? The evidence points to him having a quick build up because of his past acheivements and then pac.

As i've said earlier if the casuals didn't take to Bradley when he won his titles and was headlining HBO how are they going to take to him now? He's certainly not going to skyrocket in popularity fighting guys like Casamayor even if it's on a big undercard . Pac is almost out of the sport and Bradley will be a credible opponent but will take his L and will never be the A side to a big promotion . If you think it'll be some kind of "passing the torch " fight you're deluded .

Also Alexander has/ had a good following in St Louis . 10 ,000 people came out to see him against Kotelnik . Bradley hasn't ever touched that number in his career so talent does not always equate to popularity . Also please answer . How many african american PPV stars are ther outside of Floyd?

[Ray*]

Bradley would be dump by Arum after he has serve his purpose and selling his "0" to Paq, Top rank prefers boxers who can command a paying boxing community and it has been known in recent times that African American boxers do not possess that criteria, This is why Arum goes with a lot of Latino fighters and this is why most African American fighters don't really do too well under Top ranks in recent years.

[whatismyname]

Bradley is a no seller with a boring style and zero charisma. He has his 0 going for him and that's about it. Going into 147 his wbo light welterstrap aint gonna matter anymore. And after he sells his 0 to Manny nobody but his babymomma will care about him anymore. He is gonna become the next Devon.

Khan will go on to probably get defeated by Mayweather unless father time catches up with May, but I don't think that loss will hurt his marketablilty at all seing how he has come back from Bredis.

anybody see any other outcomes, we're listining

[Zocalo]

this guy is delusional. tim bradley is everything thats wrong with boxing

Yeah pretty much... ***** and cry about fighting someone and then duck him, and then lie to the public....

I don't like Khan at all, but the guy was willing to give him half of a great payday and Bradley wussed out.

[Hougigo]

So Bradley wants to get out of contract and sign with new promoter.... so he's ducking Khan.
But when Khan was supposed to fight Bradley after Bradley fought Peterson but opted to sign with GBP instead.... it's..... not ducking?

[PensionKillerer]

3 days Later...

Bradley on his period again?

Mood changes every week LOL.

Bradley needs Khan.

Next week...

50/50? Nah I want 70/30 because Khan needs me.

Oh wait I got Pacquiao no Khan fight.