Comments Thread For: Bradley's Big Gamble Pays Off With Securing Pacquiao Tilt

[New England]

Most of them are not even Bradley huggers like Romebyko. I think hes the only one really. But plenty of people are quick to excuse him.

I dunno if its an American thing because there's no chance in hell Khan would've got the same leeway if he'd ducked Bradley and jumped to the Mayweather fight.

yes he would (get the leeway)

100%. you cannot knock a guy for passing up a 2 million dollar payday for a 5-10 million dollar payday.

we're all about that cash, dog

the fools will be foolish no matter which way thing end up. anybody who thinks a pro on the level of khan and bradley is actually scared of another man in their weight class is nuts.

that type of mentality is for the fans
these guys go out there, pull their shirts off, and fight. they're not scared of other men. that's really not what motivates them

its all about that cash

both guys made the right move, by the look of htings
khan will get floyd
bradley already has pacquiao

and more importantly, bradley needed to let his contract with gary shaw and thompson boxing (i think thats the name,) expire and then he had to go to war with them in court before he was able to sign with TR

fighting khan would have extended that process, win lose or draw, and it was definitely holding him back


gary shaw does not promote
he gets TV dates
secures modest garanteeed purses
and then he puts a bumper sticker on his car and calls that "promotion"

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Khan would of gotten destroyed by the american media no doubt



WTF r you rambling about? Khan offer your boy his biggest payday by far after your boy open your mouth and talked crap.

He could of fought Khan under shaw(Shaw didnt requested a multi fight contract) and then go and fight Pacquiao or whomever the **** he wanted, but his fear of losing kept him from doing it.

He cowardly ducked Khan whether you admit it or not.

I wouldn't bother. Romebyko has got a way to deflect and divert anything. The guy stays protecting Bradley's balls 24/7. Bradley could've also fought Khan in December instead of Peterson. But he fought Casamyor....

[Dirk Diggler UK]

yes he would (get the leeway)

100%. you cannot knock a guy for passing up a 2 million dollar payday for a 5-10 million dollar payday.

Just a sidebar: Why do you have to double space all your posts? I literally dose off after the first paragraph. They're not aesthetically pleasing.

Again, everyone gets it twisted. He passed up a 2million payday which IF HE HAD BEEN CONFIDENT OF WINNING, would have lead to an even bigger payday than the one he is getting now.

Instead he fought a "gimmie" for half what he wouldve got versus Khan and is now fighting Pac for less than he would've got had he beaten Khan.

The "fear" aspect comes into the not being confident of beating Amir Khan. Its that simple.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Oh change the ***in record. When Khan and Bradley were 1 and 2 in the division, Bradley backed down. FULL STOP. You keep harping on about some ***** from years ago with Frank Warren when no negotiations even took place. You're so desperate and delusional

So what's so different about the situation??Bradley and Khan never had nego with each other,Shaw who was on his way out had nego with Khans team..But Bradley and his team was on to the next one already..The same with Khan and Warren,so what's different??Except you like one fighter and not the other...

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

Lorily, Rome, Coach, and New England???????? How could I NOT open this thread?!?!?!?

[tredh]

As a fan I would have loved to see Bradley vs Khan. But yall are crazy if yall don't see how Bradley made a great business move. HBO had already garaunteed Bradley a $1.1 mill payday for his next without it being Khan. So why would Bradley fight Khan for $1.5? That is just ****** when he can fight a light fight on HBO for $1.1 and then fight Khan since he was already garuanteed the mill+ payday. With Bradley wanting to switch promoters taking the easy payday to be done with his promotional contract made all the sense in the world. Bradley IMO never ducked Khan he did what he had to do to get where he wanted to be and it worked out great for him. I can't hate on him for that.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Khan would of gotten destroyed by the american media no doubt



WTF r you rambling about? Khan offer your boy his biggest payday by far after your boy open your mouth and talked crap.

He could of fought Khan under shaw(Shaw didnt requested a multi fight contract) and then go and fight Pacquiao or whomever the **** he wanted, but his fear of losing kept him from doing it.

He cowardly ducked Khan whether you admit it or not.

Again an unrealistic view by someone who is not acting like an grown up...If you believe Bradley signing to fight Khan with Shaw would not have come back to bite him you don't know anything about business..Shaw is not letting his top fighter just go off into the sun set be smarter then that... Oh and in case you have not notice Bradley is about to get his career payday and the fight he's wanted since being at the top of his div...Oh and he did it without Khan...

[New England]

Just a sidebar: Why do you have to double space all your posts? I literally dose off after the first paragraph. They're not aesthetically pleasing.

Again, everyone gets it twisted. He passed up a 2million payday which IF HE HAD BEEN CONFIDENT OF WINNING, would have lead to an even bigger payday than the one he is getting now.

Instead he fought a "gimmie" for half what he wouldve got versus Khan and is now fighting Pac for less than he would've got had he beaten Khan.

The "fear" aspect comes into the not being confident of beating Amir Khan. Its that simple.

i'll ahve to go back and check the timeline again, but i'm pretty sure that he was waiting for his contract to expire during the window where the khan fight was most reasonable (after the alexander fight, where he actually made more than 2 million,)

he wanted to get away from gary shaw and thompson boxing, and taking a khan fight would have extended his tenure as a gary shaw fighter. obviously you know that he couldnt work with a GBP fighter and sign with top rank for the same fight

jsut for you, i'll work on the structure of my posts. you'll ahve to deal with paragraphs with sentences without capital letters, though. i cant be troubled to be hitting the shift key all the time

i'm on a tiny little mac laptop and the shift keys are literally at the center of my palm. i dont know why they made them with little baby hands in mind. these keyboards were made for wimpy hipsters and the like. blame macintosh for my ugly posts. and hipsters

The more i think about the fight the more i start to think that the styles would favor khan to the point where he'd probably win more rounds, but i do think that the motivation was to secure a pacquiao fight, and not to avoid khan simply on the merits of how good he is. also, 2 million for fighting khan isn't quite as nice as 2 and some change for a fight against devon alexander.

[tredh]

Bradley is making the same mistake pac did in underestimating JMM, Bradley is very sloppy, JMM beat pac because hes JMM his ring intelligence,style power,timing,experience, against pac and fortitude allowed him to do that I dont buy bradley has the goods to beat pac he has enough to put alot of ring wear on pac but I dont buy hes at that level NOBODY has ever dominated JMM except for Floys mayweather nobody , it can be said JMM hasnt even lost a fight ,because JMM has never been CONVINCINLY BEAT and sometimes LEGITIMATLEY BEAT EITHER,except for mayweather ,bradley better do his homework, and not give pac an inch to breath otherwise hes getting ko'dPacs last 2 performances had more to due with his opposition pac is used to fighting washed-up has-been bums........we need a shakeup If bradley wins its good for boxing

Please explain how Bradley is underestimating Manny

[Mister Wolf]

So what's so different about the situation??Bradley and Khan never had nego with each other,Shaw who was on his way out had nego with Khans team..But Bradley and his team was on to the next one already..The same with Khan and Warren,so what's different??Except you like one fighter and not the other...

Dirk is just mad that Khan needed a Bradley win to even be considered for a fight with Mayweather. If Bradley beats Pac easily he will still be on here saying the Khan can beat Bradley.