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

[peplz]

Bradley Makes No Sense

Bradley makes no sense when he uses the fact that Pacquiao and Mayweather have been unable to strike a deal for a fight in years as a an example of how him going to Golden Boy would not guarantee him a fight with Mayweather. Hello Timothy! Pacquiao is and has been a Top Rank fighter the entire time. What he said actually speaks against his point and is evidence that points to the obvious fact that being with Top Rank is a guarantee against him getting a fight with Mayweather. And it also speaks to the fact that the only reason he stays with Top Rank is because it does garauntee him a fight with Pacquiao and that right now that's the only thing that he cares about.

[john_uphold]

Mayweather Vs Bradley would have created an insane buzz, and he would be pretty much guaranteed the Mayweather fight if he would have signed with Golden Boy. The problem with Mayweather and Top Rank are obviously deep enough to stop the Pac fight. Mayweather is not ducking anyone. Especially no one in Golden Boy within his reach, so Bradley is a fool and has also made a move that will keep him from fighting some great fighters from Golden Boy, including Floyd Mayweather. Bradley right now should be considered the 2nd greatest fighter out right behind Floyd. I am more than sure the fight would have happened. If Pac man were to be in Golden Boy the fight would have happened as well. This would have easily answered all of your questions about Mayweather's ducking.

When Mayweather needed someone to fight, nobody thought for a second that he would have called out Canelo. The boxing public deeply expresses how he is known to duck fighters because of the Pacman issues with Top Rank. Join Goldenboy or fight as a free agent, you might be able to have your theory tested. Bottom line, I feel Bradley made a bad move.

Bradley V Pac
Bradley V Floyd Mayweather

[peplz]

And those fights are not guaranteed. A street dude from Palm Springs isn't exactly 1.5 million PPV buys. If boxing worked like a sport should then Floyd/Bradley would be major. But they were to chicken **** to let Khan fight Devon Alexander for a shot at Mayweather. What makes anyone so sure they would put one of their aces in the ring with Bradley; a way better opponent than Devon?

My guess is that he will be mix and matched with Porter/Thurman/Devon/Maidana/Guerrero, etc. over the next 2-3 years or so. Difficult fight after difficult fight for way less money than he is getting from Bob and HBO.

A way better opponent huh? They actually fought and he didn't look like a way better opponent. He actually got out landed in that fight and his best offense in that fight was fouling with his head that eventually led to the fight having to be stopped because of a cut near Alexander's eye caused by Bradley's repeated "accidental" head butts. Bradley is good but let's not make him out to be better than he is

[BoxingSmarts24]

Bradley made the right choice. Top Rank/HBO keeps ****ing down Showtime over and over in ratings. Plus Bradley's been on PPV twice already with them, and now a 3rd time. Good money

Female you must be smoking! Speaking of PPV didn't Floyd's PPV with Guerrero even if it was only 875,000 out sale Pac/Rios and Bradley/Marquez combined? And that was considered low for Floyd.

Add in: Canelo, Broner, D. Garcia, Lucas Matthysse, Maidana, Thurman, Porter, Guerrero and some other fighters.

And if you wanna look at ratings Floyd/Canelo CRUSHED all of HBO's top two ratings that were free by themselves alone. Don't forget that Golden Boy fighters were fighting on HBO last year at this time to help boost some of their ratings.

You must be new to boxing huh? One of the dumbest post I've read since I've been on here.

[-PBP-]

A way better opponent huh? They actually fought and he didn't look like a way better opponent. He actually got out landed in that fight and his best offense in that fight was fouling with his head that eventually led to the fight having to be stopped because of a cut near Alexander's eye caused by Bradley's repeated "accidental" head butts. Bradley is good but let's not make him out to be better than he is

Don't even try to make that fight sound like it was remotely close. It was ugly but there was no doubt who the better man was after the fight was over.

[BoxingSmarts24]

Mayweather Vs Bradley would have created an insane buzz, and he would be pretty much guaranteed the Mayweather fight if he would have signed with Golden Boy. The problem with Mayweather and Top Rank are obviously deep enough to stop the Pac fight. Mayweather is not ducking anyone. Especially no one in Golden Boy within his reach, so Bradley is a fool and has also made a move that will keep him from fighting some great fighters from Golden Boy, including Floyd Mayweather. Bradley right now should be considered the 2nd greatest fighter out right behind Floyd. I am more than sure the fight would have happened. If Pac man were to be in Golden Boy the fight would have happened as well. This would have easily answered all of your questions about Mayweather's ducking.

When Mayweather needed someone to fight, nobody thought for a second that he would have called out Canelo. The boxing public deeply expresses how he is known to duck fighters because of the Pacman issues with Top Rank. Join Goldenboy or fight as a free agent, you might be able to have your theory tested. Bottom line, I feel Bradley made a bad move.

Bradley V Pac
Bradley V Floyd Mayweather

I agree fans realize that it is hard for Floyd to fight Top Rank fighters so they claim he is ducking them. I remember reading numerous of boxing websites and YouTube where fans where claiming he was "ducking" Canelo we seen how that went.

Imagine if Canelo was on Top Rank, fans would still be crying Floyd was ducking him. At this point they really don't want to see Floyd fight these dudes and dominate them, you see how quick they turned on Canelo lol

[Lineal]

I can understand loyalty & all that but if Bradley gets by Pacquaio, his options are a little thin. A rematch with Provodnikov, then what? Mayweather ain't going to fight him with Aram around

[I Love Jesus!]

I agree fans realize that it is hard for Floyd to fight Top Rank fighters so they claim he is ducking them. I remember reading numerous of boxing websites and YouTube where fans where claiming he was "ducking" Canelo we seen how that went.

Imagine if Canelo was on Top Rank, fans would still be crying Floyd was ducking him. At this point they really don't want to see Floyd fight these dudes and dominate them, you see how quick they turned on Canelo lol

Like Manny said “Top Rank already allowed us to directly negotiate with them [Mayweather] before but they never communicated with us,”

Mayweather just doesnt want the fight period. Face it

[Ringlife]

Bradley seems happy at TR if he feels he made right decision thats all that matters.

[Chex31]

dude doesn't want to fight Mayweather?

ok then