Comments Thread For: Tim Bradley Explains Reasons For Staying at Top Rank

[-PBP-]

Bradley was a b side in two PPVs that didnt do as well as projected. He is hardly a superstar.

The word "superstar" was never even typed in my post. Everything I said was true.

[bojangles1987]

Question: Why is it Bradley's responsibility to leave Top Rank and not Guerrero, Garcia, Maidana, Broner and whoever's responsibility to leave GBP to pursue a Bradley fight?

Facts:

Bradley is the #1 welterweight NOT named Floyd Mayweather
Bradley makes more money than ANY WW fighter on GBP's roster
Bradley headlined more PPVs than ANY WW fighter on GBP's roster
Bradley is higher ranked pound for pound than ANY fighter on GBP's roster

The way I see it, the fighters over at GBP need to go to Bradley. He owes them nothing.


Bottom line: You take guaranteed money over uncertainty in the fight game. Bradley's job is to fight. Its up to the promoters to find opponents that can justify the money that they are paying him. If Top Rank runs out of opponents, either they need to work with other promoters or take losses by paying Bradley too much money for easy fights.

It's not a responsibility, it's just where the better fights are. Garcia or Thurman or Maidana or whoever have no reason to leave Golden Boy, all the best and biggest money fights are there. Why chase Bradley when they can stay where they are and get all the fights they need to be a star and have a nice career?

That reasoning doesn't apply to Bradley. He needs the promoters to start making fights together or his career is going to be full of fights no one cares about.

[BuckToothed]

i think cotto will retired before pac and floyd lol!!!

We'll see, if he beats Sergio by a long shot, I see him sticking around long enough to nurse that belt while raking in PPV paydays.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Bradley didn't sign for GBP a few years ago because they were gonna make him fight Khan first whereas TR gave him the Casamayor fight....lol not hard to see why he's made this decision.

No after Khan fought the great Mccloskey to sure up more contracts(safety net)Bradley did the same..So what ever Bradley did,Khan did first..

[Jsmooth9876]

If Tim loses a close fight to Manny this time, they will have part 3 in September and Tim will make another 6 million. That's 12 million in 5-6 months.
It would probably take him 5-6 FIGHTS to.make that against GBP fighters...Floyd he would probably make the same 6 million anyway.

[whoseyourdaddy]

I would ask this question? could it be cause he is ducking? I mean when Broner skiped the 140 lbs Most of us here were saying it was cause he was ducking the big fish at 140, well now we have Bradley situation, staying at TR where there is no significant fights for him any more...Pacquiao ok, Ruslan so so, (because this time around Bradley is going to back pedal this fight to an univentful, non entretaining UD) Marquez? who we all saw how his age showed is not the same Marquez and no one cares for a rematch. Rios? Brandon punching bag bag rios....who in the hell cares for that fight. conclusion Bradley took the easy route.

[IronDanHamza]

Again this proves my point,and the reason why Bradley stayed with TR..Garcia Broner Alvarez and Thurman..Would all be bigger priorities then Bradley..Not the same with TR..There are reason for Bradley to stay with TR,money is a big one,but it's also the promotion and being the top of it..Where on GBP he's just another fight tbh..

He was under a similar situation when he got to TR.

He could do the same at GBP and there's so many more fights for him.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Of course YOU can

Of course you can not..Your known for over estimating fighters anyway..

[-PBP-]

It's not a responsibility, it's just where the better fights are. Garcia or Thurman or Maidana or whoever have no reason to leave Golden Boy, all the best and biggest money fights are there. Why chase Bradley when they can stay where they are and get all the fights they need to be a star and have a nice career?

That reasoning doesn't apply to Bradley. He needs the promoters to start making fights together or his career is going to be full of fights no one cares about.

That's Top Rank's problem not Bradley. If they are going to pay him $2 million per fight for rematches then its up to them to find suitable opponents. From Bradley's perspective, $2 million is $2 million whether its a rematch with Abregu or a fight with Keith Thurman.

Thurman vs. Guerrero was going to be on an undercard over at GBP. If they were with Top Rank, that fight would be on HBO, generate over a million viewers and they would both get much higher purses.

GBP has a deeper roster, but Bradley is in a WAY better position financially then every single one of their welterweights and junior welterweights.

As a fan I would love to see all of those fights but I'm not blaming the fighters for them not happening. I place my blame on the promoters for putting the fighters in these types of predicaments.

[Rome-By-Ko]

He was under a similar situation when he got to TR.

He could do the same at GBP and there's so many more fights for him.

That's really not true..He was always going to get a nice push..It was his biggest reason for going to TR..To get promoted right..At the time GBP was pushing Khan hard,why would he sign with GBP then??TR who was they promoting heavy outside of Pac,who at that point really did not need the push anymore..