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

[whoseyourdaddy]

When Floyd and Pac retires, TR will have the bigger names in Bradley and Cotto (assuming he continues on).

Guess who will be the man to chase? I also believe that when Pac and Floyd retires, this ****** cold war ends.

Canelo will be the bigger name easy...no contest right there

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Bradley - Abregu II

The World Awaits

[Rome-By-Ko]

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.

Great post,100% agreed..

[IronDanHamza]

Prov Rios Alvarado and Abregu all I would give a good shot to beat Broner Khan Garcia Thurman..There really is no different except GBP fighters might be a bit younger..Don't mean that they would hands down win against TR fighters..This is a myth,a ****ty one at that..

Take the names of the fighters I posted there..Mix and match them,you'd get different winners bro..I don't believe any of these guy's to be head and shoulder better then the other guy..That goes for Bradley and Pac as well..The only guy I think is head and shoulder better is Mayweather..That's just cause his track rec..I think all these guy's can lose to the other..So let's stop trying to act as if GBP stable are such better fighters..It's deeper I'll give ya that..(In my Nancy Grace voice)Better I'm not buying it buddy..

Oh and believe me the landscape will change..The money will dictate that it does..

Whether it's better or not, it has way more options.

You list Provodnikov, Abregu, Rios, Alvarado. He's already beaten two of those aswell as Pacquaio and Marquez.

So that leaves who? Rios and Alvarado?

At GBP theres;

Guererro, Maidana, Thurman, Garcia, Porter, Broner, Khan etc even guys like Pauli that he hasn't fought yet.

[hitking]

So now that Timmy is locked up with Arum. Its safe for the Floyd haters the amp up the "Floyd's ducking Bradley" campaign into full overdrive.

[Jsmooth9876]

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.

Broner was ducking..He never fought anyone then moved to 147 and fought the least powerful puncher there.
Bradley has fought good fighters, I don't think he's afraid of Golden Boys guys. There's a chance the cold war ends and he gets those fights anyways.
It's funny how Marquez got "old" after his KO of Manny..or could it be he had to take some stringent drug testing and lost all that magical power he had.

[IronDanHamza]

Neither would I,but the fact remains..He makes more money at TR,he get's promoter better at TR..TR has his name being talked about with HOF implications..TR has been good to Timmy..No need to leave..The landscape will be changing soon enough anyway..Guerrero will be one of the first to jump ship..Expect to see fighters like Lopez Maidana and a few others want to leave GBP as well..

Has TR been that good to Bradley? I'm not so sure.

Yeah they've got him fights but I don't think Arum wanted Bradley to come out on top and they way to talked about him after the Pacquaio fight was ridiculous.

[-PBP-]

Let's be real, if Bradley was with GBP he would be fighting Guerrero, Garcia, Thurman, Maidana or whoever on Canelo's undercard in the middle of Texas. They don't build fighters that don't promote themselves or have built in fanbases.

[IronDanHamza]

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.

Are those fighters really going to jump ship to pursue Bradley?

Fighters at GBP fro 140-147 want Floyd, that's who everyone wants to fight and they'll stay there in attempt to get it.

No one's going to jump ship for a Bradley fight.

Most of the fighters are at GBP, Bradley should be pursuing that. He doesn't owe them anything obviously but the good fights and fresh fights are over there inlcuding Mayweather.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Whether it's better or not, it has way more options.

You list Provodnikov, Abregu, Rios, Alvarado. He's already beaten two of those aswell as Pacquaio and Marquez.

So that leaves who? Rios and Alvarado?

At GBP theres;

Guererro, Maidana, Thurman, Garcia, Porter, Broner, Khan etc even guys like Pauli that he hasn't fought yet.

Your absolutely right bro,I'd rather watch Bradley fight the GBP fighters as well..I don't blame Bradley tho,for taking the better business deal..No matter how ya slice it,Bradley is making more then most of the GBP roster..I can't fault Bradley for staying..