Comments Thread For: Timothy Bradley: Standing There and Trading Was Idiotic

[Southpawology]

This will be the last exciting fight we see from bradley he will never go toe to toe like that again. Ruslan scrambled his brain.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

Bradley I hope you can recover health before everything

[sNiTcH]

I dont think it was a good fight for bradley...

[-Antonio-]

Id rather see Bradley fight someone else first then a rematch after. A Rios fight would be very interesting.

[ddeg10]

Bradley deserves a Pac rematch, a Marquez fight or the winner of Mayweather/Guerrero. Anything else but a big fight doesn't make sense at this point. Accepting the fight with Provodnikov was a risky move by Arum and Bradley but it's now time for Tim to cash in - he deserves it and is a true champion. Hopefully he learned a valuable lesson during this fight and when he is hurt he can learn to manage himself in the ring instead of trading with a big puncher. Mayweather or Pac would have put him away if he traded the way he did Saturday night.

Provodnikov is lucky Tim gave him the match to begin with. If Provodnikov has a couple more good fights I could see a really big rematch down the road if they can both keep it together.

[APBrooklyn]

This will be the last exciting fight we see from bradley he will never go toe to toe like that again. Ruslan scrambled his brain.

Yeah, I'd say Bradley's egg shell is definitely cracked after this one...he probably get KO'd badd in a rematch....Rios would put him into retirement if Bradley fought that same way against him

[ddeg10]

I think he learned a great deal from this fight. This guy lives and breathes boxing - he will not go in there with a big puncher and stand toe to toe again unless he absolutely has to. He was winning rounds easily when he boxed Provodnikov and he knows that now.

[..David..]

awesome fight ! loved it and i think it was a good fight for timmy in the sense of recovering credibility as a champion after the pac fight ( at least for the casual fans )

Still ... im not sure we will se him do that kind of crazy s.hit again

[mathed]

Tim is iron man for real, negative for a concussion, willing to take a rematch and wants to fight two more times this year. If you didn't see the fight, you would have thought Ruslan was the one worried about a concussion by looking at him.


So glad he acknowledged that he should have boxed. I'd expect him to do that from round one in a rematch.

[mathed]

Bradley is a true warrior and a true champion. I love his approach to the sport. He realized after the Pacquiao fight that he wrongfully lost a lot of respect from fans. So like a true warrior, he made the decision to go toe to toe with this VIOLENT puncher and was willing to go out on his shield simply to prove a point. As a fan of boxing, I admire that and was thrilled. But as a fan of Timothy Bradley, I am very concerned. I hope that war didn't do any major damage and shorten his career in any way. I hope he goes back to being a technician in the ring that only exchanges when it is safe and necessary. Boring or not, when he boxes, there are not too many guys at 140 or 147 that can deal with him.

I sent him an email saying exactly that too. I told him that we appreciated his efforts and that we knew why he did it but there is no need, he is too good of a boxer to resort to that.

I think he can beat anyone in the world at 140-147 if he just boxes. It's not about being exciting, it's not about being a fan fighter it's about winning, it's about hitting and not getting hit - "Dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee"