Bradley-Provodnikov Revisted

[Bushidō]

I couldn't enjoy this fight at all the first time, being a Bradley fan. He's lucky as hell he didn't lose this fight.

I hope this didn't force Bradley past his prime.

Pacquiao forced Bradley past his prime.

[RespekonMyName]

I don't think Bradley is recovered from this. I see JMM stopping him within 3. That's why I'm scared to order the fight.

[mathed]

Bradley will go out there and boss Marquez and a new line of excuses will have to be generated. If you start now, you might have a long enough list to semi-save face.

[_original_]

How I scored it...

1. Provodnikov 10/8
2. Provodnikov 10/8
3. Bradley 10/9
4. Bradley 10/9
5. Bradley 10/9
6. Provodnikov 10/9
7. Bradley 10/9
8. Bradley 10/9
9. Bradley 10/9
10. Bradley 10/9
11. Bradley 10/9
12. Provodnikov 10/8

112-113 Bradley

It was a close fight but Bradley edged it out IMO. I also became a Bradley fight that night.

His heart is unquestionable. I remember him being on the ropes swinging when he was out on his feet!

Good to see somebody else post up their scorecard, interesting that you gave Ruslan two 10-8 rounds. I've always struggled to give out 10-8 rounds w/ no KD unless it's an absolute domination/thrashing, which in this case I can see people's argument. However, I'm still not sure it constitutes scoring those rounds 10-8, but all things considered it's up for debate and according to people's own personal judging criteria.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Some of my thoughts about this fight..

I did not score the first 2 rds a 10-8,and the reason why was because Prov did not dominate the entirety of the rd..Bradley was actually winning both rds before he got over confident and tried to really do damage to Prov and open himself up..Not to mention I did not feel there was a KD in either rd..I thought it was the right call for Pat not to call either of the so-called KD,by the rules of the sport Bradley was not KD..

This was a true battle,but I still think both,Marquez and Bradley are still highly skilled and tough as nails fighters..Even after the last battle both were in,I mean think about it..Marquez was in last yrs fight of the yr(also his last fight),while Bradley was in this yrs(so far)FOTY..I don't believe anything came close to the excitement this fight brought tbh..

I'd love to see a rematch of this fight at some point,I thought their style match up was lovely..Roach imo came up with a great game plan for Prov,a lot of sneaky tricks in there for Prov..

Great fight,very memorable..

[Rome-By-Ko]

oh, but Bradely's trainer wasn't trying to motivate him to listen to him and start boxing? Seemed to have worked because Ruslan's vortex technique to drag Bradley into a phonebooth brawl stopped working after the second round.
And who cares if Ruslan was close to hitting the ground or not, his tissue face was getting repeatedly hit by mr. featherfist and getting cut up.
Common sense?
If you think Bradley's trainer was legit going to stop the fight, why wouldn't you believe Roach would for ruslan who was constantly getting hit in the face and cut by a guy who everyone says couldn't bust a g****?

GIFSoup

[daggum]

Some of my thoughts about this fight..

I did not score the first 2 rds a 10-8,and the reason why was because Prov did not dominate the entirety of the rd..Bradley was actually winning both rds before he got over confident and tried to really do damage to Prov and open himself up..Not to mention I did not feel there was a KD in either rd..I thought it was the right call for Pat not to call either of the so-called KD,by the rules of the sport Bradley was not KD..

This was a true battle,but I still think both,Marquez and Bradley are still highly skilled and tough as nails fighters..Even after the last battle both were in,I mean think about it..Marquez was in last yrs fight of the yr(also his last fight),while Bradley was in this yrs(so far)FOTY..I don't believe anything came close to the excitement this fight brought tbh..

I'd love to see a rematch of this fight at some point,I thought their style match up was lovely..Roach imo came up with a great game plan for Prov,a lot of sneaky tricks in there for Prov..

Great fight,very memorable..

the rules say the ropes can't hold you up. in round 2 his entire body fell into the ropes. gravity says there's no possible way he would have stayed up without the ropes. also in round 6 he fell on the bottom rope so once again the ropes held him up. why don't you like using the rules? oh because you love bradley well that's excusable then.

[Rome-By-Ko]

the rules say the ropes can't hold you up. in round 2 his entire body fell into the ropes. gravity says there's no possible way he would have stayed up without the ropes. also in round 6 he fell on the bottom rope so once again the ropes held him up. why don't you like using the rules? oh because you love bradley well that's excusable then.

I agree with the 6 rd the ropes held Bradley up,yet I clearly said the first two rds..I don't agree that the ropes held Bradley up,he was catching his balance not falling..

[-PBP-]

No, Brads trainer was trying to motivate him, I never said any different did I? I just countered his argument with what he threw at me. I have NO CLUE why you are bringing up tissue damage, that has ZERO relevance, do you understand Bradley is a darker tone to Ruslan? Bruising will not show as easily/at all? You understand bone structure and skin sensitivity will decide how red a fighters face becomes and how easily they swell or bruise? It is not a clear indicator of punishment.

Lets use the facts and link to common sense. Who would you rather be in that fight? Who do you think suffered brain damage? Who's speach was slurred from the damage? Who didn't even know where they were after the fight? Now, once you've answered all those, it's quite obvious that Bradleys corner were FAR more likely to throw in the towl than Roach, especially when Roach knows Ruslan can KO Bradley, yet not vice versa, cmon.

Boxing is scored on a round by round basis. Bradley won more rounds. End of story.

[T18Z]

Boxing is scored on a round by round basis. Bradley won more rounds. End of story.

What a pointless and ****** response, you quoted my reply which was a response to another poster discussing the likelyhood of each corner throwing in the towel, how about you add the context before quoting me next time?

Lastly, boxing is scored on points, round by round, key word there is points. I never argued Bradley won more rounds, I argued he won less points, end of story.