Comments Thread For: Tim Bradley Nearly Stopped, Sucks It Up To Win a War

[tlarry]

No he's right, Bradley is not the same. He has been in many wars and has sat for most of his prime years age 26-28. Now he still comes in shape but clearly he's not as quick and agile as he use to be. I think it's a combination of age, inactivity and also weight as he balloons up to 170 pounds between fights. Bradley's best days where @ 140..Marquez will take him out..

Bradley has had TWO wars of which he lost both. Pacquiao beat the crap out of him and so did this Russian Bradley so carefully hand picked. Devon Alexander never threw a punch, scared to death. Prior to that Bradley had fought NOBODY! He wouldn't fight Khan, or Erik Morales, or Maidana, all of who called out Bradley. He was waiting for one career meal ticket and he got that with PAC and they fixed the title to him. I knew that would be a problem. Because there's nearly a dozen guys out there Bradley CAN'T beat! He can't beat Floyd, or Manny. He can't beat Maidana, Matthysee, Garcia, Rios, Prov, Guerrero, Lamont Peterson, Berto, Marquez, Margarito, OR a 41 year old Shane Mosley!!! Lets add in a smaller Gesta, Gamboa or Broner! That's a helluva problem Bradley has, just handing him a belt they stole from Pacquiao. NOW WHAT? How much more careful can you be? Zab Judah? Morales now that he's shot and retiring? Glass chin Khan? 51 year old Vinnie Pazienza??? Bradley has a real problem! He can't beat any of those guys. His best bet is to fight nobody and let them strip the title away. He can't even hand pick an opponent safely.

[jrodz70]

Provodnikov did arguably deserve 3x 10-8 rounds...which would make him a winner with 2 more 10-9 rounds.

[Realizniguhnit]

well he didn't sound right before the fight either. he kept saying he beat pacquiao.

hahahahah good one

[cupocity303]

You just don't get it. I like him and I believe he won, but Bradley was exposed tonight

No, again - he wasn't.

Exposed means when someone who was untested gets in the ring and something new happens that exposes his weakness. We already saw this fight before, and it happened against Holt.

Add that up with the possiblity that little Timmy wasn't all there emotionally tonight (as evidenced by his crying during that interview), and that's why he tried to overcompensate by trying to slug on the inside.

He was NOT exposed. He faced and has beaten much better fighters with just as big Punching power as the Russian. Next!!

[Copyright]

Martinez wasn't conning anybody because he wasn't throwing against Barker for many of those middle rounds. And nobody was giving him those rounds anyway.

And apparently, those punches you say Martinez was conning were not so soft since those same punches broke Barker down a bit and led to the KO.

Your point makes no sense.

The punch that got barker was behind the ear the same style punch that got price its not due to being worn down its due to getting hit right on that sweet spot that takes away all your senses it was an equilibrium punch he got caught and popped an ear drum.

[LAFIRPO]

You just don't get it. I like him and I believe he won, but Bradley was exposed tonight in every way. I have been following his career closely. He is clearly not the same, and just who is he going to bounce back against? The only option out there right now looks like it's going to be Marquez, and If Marquez lands the punches that Ruslan did tonight you can forget about it...Tim's been in 2 many wars he's been inactive for the majority of his prime which I believe he is on the down side now and he's getting injured more showing clear signs of decline. You need to understand that most fighters are done at 30. Bradley's a good fighter but I have always said that I don't see him fighting well into his 30's he's not Floyd he wins on athleticism and being in shape not skill..

It wasn't Bradley's best performance, but you also can't write a guy off because of one performance.

That's a big problem in boxing today; you lose a fight or have a bad performance and people want to write you off.

Do you know how many great fighters have loss fights and have come to win championships?

[Realizniguhnit]

Bradley has had TWO wars of which he lost both. Pacquiao beat the crap out of him and so did this Russian Bradley so carefully hand picked. Devon Alexander never threw a punch, scared to death. Prior to that Bradley had fought NOBODY! He wouldn't fight Khan, or Erik Morales, or Maidana, all of who called out Bradley. He was waiting for one career meal ticket and he got that with PAC and they fixed the title to him. I knew that would be a problem. Because there's nearly a dozen guys out there Bradley CAN'T beat! He can't beat Floyd, or Manny. He can't beat Maidana, Matthysee, Garcia, Rios, Prov, Guerrero, Lamont Peterson, Berto, Marquez, Margarito, OR a 41 year old Shane Mosley!!! Lets add in a smaller Gesta, Gamboa or Broner! That's a helluva problem Bradley has, just handing him a belt they stole from Pacquiao. NOW WHAT? How much more careful can you be? Zab Judah? Morales now that he's shot and retiring? Glass chin Khan? 51 year old Vinnie Pazienza??? Bradley has a real problem! He can't beat any of those guys. His best bet is to fight nobody and let them strip the title away. He can't even hand pick an opponent safely.

Ummm Bradley has been in many wars buddy wtf are you talking about? Peterson, Holt, and on a lesser level Witter and even Abregu. They were all tough fights for Bradley that took a little from him..

[awara]

Home Depot Center, Carson, California - Timothy Bradley (30-0, 12KOs) used up every ounce of his body to win a twelve round unanimous decision over Ruslan Provodnikov (22-2, 15KOs) to retain his WBO welterweight crown. Bradley was hurt in round one, nearly stopped in round two, hurt in round five and almost gone in round twelve. The scores were 114-113, 114-113 and 115-112.

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for some ******s Bradley won just bcuz he took punishment

[daggum]

The punch that got barker was behind the ear the same style punch that got price its not due to being worn down its due to getting hit right on that sweet spot that takes away all your senses it was an equilibrium punch he got caught and popped an ear drum.

i think it's due to being a bum

[LAFIRPO]

The punch that got barker was behind the ear the same style punch that got price its not due to being worn down its due to getting hit right on that sweet spot that takes away all your senses it was an equilibrium punch he got caught and popped an ear drum.

Yes, but before that Martinez was coming on and was changing the tide of the fight that up until that point Barker was doing very well.

And that change came with rapid punches that were mostly blocked but yet somehow effective in creating openings. That punch behind the ear wasn't an accident, it was something that for that Martinez was working on for the past 3 rounds.