Comments Thread For: Photos: Tim Bradley Sparring Tough For Manny Pacquiao

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

It's going to be amazing when Bradley manhandle's Pac.

I'm still trying to see if you wanna do that 50m bet...

I'll also do an extra 10m Bradley won't drop Manny once.

[Terrel]

Bradley will surprise many people come June.

I just hope Pacquiao fans don't make a ****** excuses if Pacquiao loses.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

interesting. =P

And that's not even a natural southpaw, imagine what a real one would do to him. Good job team Bradley bringing in someone who SWITCHES to southpaw.

[RichCCFC]

Game plan revealed

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Bradley got this fight wrapped up. TKO Pac within 4 rounds.

When was the last time Pacquiao got stopped? I really doubt a featherfisted Bradley will do it.

[mathed]

That might work against people like Alexander and Abregu, but Bradley's going to have a tough time making it work against a guy like Pacquiao.


Yeah, it's impressive. How's he going to dominate Pacquiao? Pacquiao even when he's being tactically outmatched is very likely to remain more active. Plus, there will be a fine line between Bradley forcing Pacquiao out of his comfort zone, or getting too involved and getting caught with fast, hard shots.


Of course, we both realize that regardless of how impressive Bradley's performance is, he's just not going to win the fight by countering. As solid as Bradley's counterpunching is, he's not the technical master that Marquez is and Marquez didn't get the decision even after counterpunching his ass off.


These two are probably right, but I think if there's any chance of Bradley becoming fatigued in a fight it'll be against an opponent as explosive as Pacquiao. Let's face it: as good as Bradley is at forcing his opponents to become uncomfortable, his biggest challenge to date is getting that to work against Pacquiao.


Bradley is a tough competitor. One thing we both agree on is that Pacquiao cannot, I repeat cannot overlook Bradley. If he does, he may still get a gift decision but he could be exposed. I think the best way to summarize Bradley is the way Roach put it: "he doesn't know how to lose". I hope that Pacquiao's camp at least realize that he's not just a forward-plodding Provodnikov, although to his credit Provodnikov may be doing his best to imitate Bradley's style in their sparring matches.

I'm not sure that Pacquiao is overlooking him, though. After all, he apparently insisted to Roach that they need a strategy in case Bradley tries to counterpunch like Marquez did and win the fight that way. I think he knows he's not as one-dimensional as Hatton.

One last thing: is it not possible that at least some of the perceived turmoil is mind games? It may be too clever for Pacquiao's camp to have actually come up with, but consider the Ariza leaving thing. What if they did that because they a) know Pacquiao can follow Ariza's instructions when he's away, b) know that it may feed the idea that Pacquiao is in for an upset. If this was their thinking, Bradley has already appeared to fall for it. He has said that he thinks Ariza left because Pacquiao wasn't willing to follow his suggestions.

We'll see what happens in June. I don't think Bradley has what it takes to beat Pacquiao, personally, but I think he's dangerous enough that Pacquiao needs to take him very seriously. I'm just saying 100% Pacquiao vs 100% Bradley, Manny wins.

Anything can happen and if Arum thinks he can ride the Pac money train a few more times,then no matter how good Bradley does, Pac will win the decision. If, however, Arum is planning ahead, he may want to cash out on Pac and setup Bradley as another marketable fighter. If this is the case , then I could see Bradley winning a decision....the ball is all in Arum's court and after Pac tried to expose Arum's corrupt accounting practices, Arum could be trying to get Pac out of the mix.

[mathed]

Game plan revealed

You do realize that Bradley, the guy in the gray shirt, is the one getting headbutted by his sparring partner.....same thing as in the Casa fight....I love how everything gets blamed on Bradley. In the other pic, Bradley is clearly leaning to the side....smh

[TerrisJ3]

this fight will be similar to Pacquiao-Diaz. Bradley will be saying the samething in the end. "the ****er was too fast"!

[mathed]

I'm still trying to see if you wanna do that 50m bet...

I'll also do an extra 10m Bradley won't drop Manny once.

I'll bet you 50M that Bradley beats Pac. I don't know if Bradley will drop Pac or not but I'll bet you 10M additional that Pac doesn't stop Bradley. Let me know

[Realizniguhnit]

Bradley will surprise many people come June.

I just hope Pacquiao fans don't make a ****** excuses if Pacquiao loses.

I think Bradley is the one in for a surprise come June...