Comments Thread For: Bradley's Calf Injury More Serious Than Initially Thought

[radiotracer]

Anyone with eyes could see that the whole fight changed during the middle rounds and it wasn't from anything that Manny did. Bradley was showing signs of an injury around the 5th round. That is around the time he started slugging more. His lateral movement and aggression was gone and he resorted to loading up trying to counter Manny. In the process he was dead tired from loading up and missing. His punches got wider and wilder. I've never seen that from him. Manny did what he had to do to win the fight. It shows more of the heart of Bradley to be able to make it through the 12 rounds on his feet against a future hall of famer. The sad thing is, he may never get the opportunity again to fight Manny. Hopefully, resigning with TR has set him financially for life. But TR doesn't have the roster for Tim to really show his greatness. If he had signed with GB, he would of had the fighters at 147 to display his talent on the highest level. Now he is only left with Provodnikov, Rios, and Alvarado.

those are big names you mentioned but dont forget marquez and never say never pac. These are ppv fights. With gbp he wouldnt be guaranteed a floyd fight. He might be too risky for floyd. Speed kills and thats floyds advantage that he will never lose.

[mrpizza-nd_beer]

Manny Pacquiao "The Leg-end"

[deanrw]

Bradley keeps sustaining leg injuries against Pac. Hmmm....I am starting to believe the talent gap theory, and perhaps Bradley tries too hard against Pac and is overextending himself.

Bingo! Green K

[-MEGA-]

Let it rest. Let there be no excuses for this fight. Pacquiao won fair and square. I could/was defending the first injury. But this is the second time it's happened and the common denominator is pacquiao. Unless of coarse you beleive in voodoo (which I don't). It is was it is...

[amayseng]

One thing is clear. Tim has to literally injure himself just to try to keep up with Pac. He had to fight at 110% just to be even with Pac 3-3 after 6 rounds. Injured calf or not he was exhausted and physically spent. He admitted at the post fight press that he was hurt numerous times to where his balance and equilibrium was off for half the fight.

Tim is a great fighter, probably at top 7 lb4lber, however Pac and Floyd are just on another level from everyone else at this point. That is a testament to both pac and floyd who are mid and late 30's and beating these young lions impressively...

[turnedup]

I think he's hurt but I don't think it's his leg. I think he's got an orbital/cheek fracture. Look at him all week after they arrived in vegas, he barely ever took the sunglasses off even in an indoor semi dark press conference. Looking back i've never seen dude wear glasses ever. If they say it's the eye it becomes a plan of attack for future opponents...but hey I could be wrong I just find it oddly coincidental. He took the glasses off for a picture on wednesday's press conference before the fight and he had a lump under his right eye, it was less visible on fight night but I posted on fight hype soon as I saw that jawn.

[ddangerous]

Bradley is a solid fighter. But Pacquiao has clearly beat him twice now. Just move on.

[La_Vibora]

Good post man. This reminds me of when Pac himself used to complain of cramps against Marquez. When you have a guy that can keep up with you and you are used to being more athletic you tend to try too hard to get that positioning edge. When you start jerking your legs too much you get hurt. This is why guys like Mayweather and Hopkins don't seem to decline much as they age. They work on keeping their reflexes sharp and countering anything thrown on them rather than depending heavily on their legs as much as when they were younger.

They (Hopkins and Floyd) also avoid fighting guys faster than themselves which helps that problem too.