Has Bradley's punch resistance gone?

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

Vargas has one stoppage in his last 16 fights and that was against a non durable career super featherweight in Walter Estrada who has been stopped by everyone and their gran.

Yet he hit Tim Bradley and made him do the moonwalk. Like he was gone, out of it.

We've all seen Vargas land continually flush on others in exchanges with zero effect.

Is it fair to say that the Provodnikov massacre and fights with Pac have severely taken their tole on Tim and his punch resistance is going/has gone?

Even in the Chaves fight for example, he ate a lot of leather, he is not this slickster he is made out to be. He does get hit with regularity.

Yes, I think the Provodnikov fight had a great effect on him. He'll never be the same. In all fairness though, I think that shot Vargas landed was a hell of a punch, probably the best he's ever landed.

[boliodogs]

It was a beautiful right hand with Tim moving on to it upping its power and it was in the last round after a cracking pace , Tims chin is as solid as its always been , relatively light punchers can hurt most people when all things align and it lands on the button .

It was a perfect punch and probably as hard as Vargas could possibly hit him.

[LacedUp]

To be fair on Bradley, Vargas put all of his weight onto that shot and literally couldn't have landed better.

Any man can punch another man straight in the face and hurt them.

But his punch resistance? I don't know. he's been in some rough fights and that's got to have taken their toll.

[MrFactor]

His punch resistance has been the same all along. He looks the same as when he got knocked down against, I think it was kendall Holt. he recovers well and returns fire. he's ok.