Bradley let Provodnikov beat him up

[dynomyte1444]

Nope.

After he got tagged the first time it may of looked like he could see them but his eyes were ****ed up.

No one tries to take punches

[Daddy T]

Do you have brain damage?

lol beat me to it

[Bigg Rigg]

To me if you watch the fight again, its plain as day Bradley saw those punches coming. He saw every one coming and had time to defend but for some reason he wanted to put a show on for the crowd I think. Thats what I honestly think. Watch the fight, Bradley can see the Russian's punches coming yet doesnt move his head.

No he didn't.

[Bigg Rigg]

Nope.

After he got tagged the first time it may of looked like he could see them but his eyes were ****ed up.

No one tries to take punches

Some say Floyd let Cotto get off a little bit on him and I don't buy that either. But if a fighter was to ever let another guy hit them, it'll be punches like those. Stiff jabs. Not thunder right hands that send u flying across the ring.

[EvilGenius]

ROFL

Uh- Oh

[Dirk Diggler UK]

This "he wanted to prove he was tough" **** is funny. As if Bradley is some defensive wizard who never usually gets hit. He gets hit in every fight. He brawls like that in almost every fight

[kardsufur]

No, Bradley wanted to prove he was tough and could put on an exciting fight. He wanted to exchange early and Ruslan caught him and hurt him. After that Bradley tried to box some but every time he got hit flush he was hurt. I think Bradley thought his chin would stand up to Provodnikov's power but he wasn't purposely trying to get beat up.

A big question for me is did Ruslan hurt Bradley so often because of his large drop in weight so close to the fight or because he is such a heavy puncher? Or is it a little of both?

yes. Bradley said in the face off that he got a concussion in the 1st round from the first time he was hurt. Unfortunately as everyone knows a concussion doesn't just go away quick so he was pretty much fighting the rest of the fight with a concussion and was getting rocked/hurt by everything that landed at that point. Honestly Bradley was knocked out in the first round, he fell twice which usually causes a ref to wave off the fighter. So technically speaking he fought the entire fight while being knocked out and that's what caused the moderate brain damage he says he experienced for months after the fight like loss of balance and slurred speech.