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

[Det. Conan]

Bradley is right. Good decision by him. Pac is now near the end of the road. After he is done w/ Boxing. Tim will become TR's new superstar & cashcow. No one else come close to his popularity & skills, aside form Mickey & Provo w/c are distant away from him. While in GBP, there's plenty of guys that lined up after Mayweather is gone

[PeterNeversoft]

Bradley would make good money with either promotion.

Im just saying but this is the area where Mayweather and his constant war against Bob Arum/Top Rank hurts boxing. Bradley deserves a shot before Floyd hangs up his gloves.

[kidjalapeno]

Don't knw what to make of this... He stayed at top rank to fight rematches with jmm Pac... Fight Rios Alvarado .. a battered post martinez cotto... When he could have been at golden boy.. fought the top dog.. but he's right at golden boy you have to fight.. there's Thurman Ortiz Danny Garcia mathysse berto broner khan he's beats most.. but not all... Chose the easiest and already knwn route..

[The Ninth Layer]

There is ONE FIGHT at Golden Boy worth any amount of money for Bradley — Mayweather. That's the only guy, and it's not even guaranteed he would make a $6 million purse to fight Mayweather.

Anyone who thinks Bradley would make more money fighting under Golden Boy, get real. They already have their big names, they have their business model. It's Mayweather at the top, Canelo and ideally Broner for second-tier PPVs, and then a bunch of guys under them who fight for those B-side slots.

Robert Guerrero was in a comparable situation to Bradley (small fanbase, proven at lower weights) before he fought Floyd and then afterward could not make a match worth any amount of money. Now he's in promotional disputes with Golden Boy. Simply put, Guerrero has no momentum now so they're not going to give him dates or make him at all a priority.

Someone said that "Bradley would be a big fish in a big pond" with Showtime. Nope, he'd be a big fish in a small pond. HBO is the big pond, they have plenty of money and their budget isn't tied up in finding ways to give Paulie Malignaggi and Peter Quillin main events.

[jas]

bradley should have looked at marquez before he signed an extension with top rank.

jmm has no-one to fight at top rank and bradley is thinking too short-term. after all, bradley, does lead a vegan lifestyle, doubt he drinks. all the best young 147 pounders are at golden boy.

[CLUE]

I still don't understand how fighters sit by idle while their promoters harm their careers over petty personal beefs. What kind of business is that?

Fighters have somehow been brainwashed to accept it. Its pretty damn crazy, they just let their promoters do whatever they want when it comes to booking them fights with other promoters, like the fighter has no say.

[Dat]

Choosing between the two promoters is just like moving from one leech to another. Can't blame Bradley really.

[Citizen Koba]

Am going to the UK (London to be exact) next year around April, and no offence to you but I don't want to leave without whatching a ManU game vs anybody. how far do I have to travel to see one of this games?

I'll dig you out a schedule, but if you wanna see Man U play, you're best coming up to Manchester (I'm more of a Man City guy myself, but I ain't really that partisan) - it'll take you a coupla hours on the train and you can jump on the tram from the train station pretty much directly to Old Trafford. Take you about 3 hours each way.

I'm assuming you mean this coming April though? Next years fixtures ain't been decided yet.

http://www.manutd.com/en/Fixtures-And-Results/United-Fixtures-And-Results.aspx?month=4&competition=

TBH April ain't really great - Everton should be OK but that's in Liverpool - best bet might be wait'n'see how the Champions League matches play out.

[$mannyFresh]

IMO, if you're a top tier fighter, you're usually better with top rank than any other promoter.

My problem with the company is that they've been so stingy with their matchups; putting together the worst undercards I've seen on PPV... Although they've gotten better recently, they're still well below GBP in that category.

[Citizen Koba]

Fighters have somehow been brainwashed to accept it. Its pretty damn crazy, they just let their promoters do whatever they want when it comes to booking them fights with other promoters, like the fighter has no say.

Fighters fight...they usually look at the numbers put in front of them and say - well y'know...I'm OK with that. An essentially guaranteed $6 mil is better for a guy at this point in his career than an unknown figure somewhere between perhaps 1 and 15 mil. Like every other fighter Bradley knows he has a limited shelf life - I'm assuming he has family etc and needs to think long term - which means looking at certainties rather than ******** on future paydays that might not happen,

Quite a touching interview, actually, for an old f#kker like me who understands fully his point - sometimes it is better the devil you know..