Comments Thread For: Tim Bradley Storms His Way To a Knockout of Rios

[ShoulderRoll]

Did you guys catch Bradley trying that right hook to the body-right uppercut combo?

A little reminiscent of you know who....

[Redd Foxx]

You may not be ready to call it a coincidence. But it's no coincidence that Rios was in bad shape and had 24 lbs of water jiggling in him. Things like that takes away credit, and that's no fault of Bradley.

Bradley didn't just happen to change his style of attack, favoring straight punches to looping. Tightening up the radius of the hooks. Relying on movement in and out without getting planted in between. Not twisting his waist so heavily and locking his feet into a position. You could even see him responding to Teddy's instruction, something he was terrible about in the past because the advice from his corner was often questionable. I know a lot of people don't like Atlas and want to think this was Tim all along but this was a renewed fighter. Still has some old habits to correct but I think he'll get there.

[BoxerDood]

I don't know why a lot of people are taking his words to heart. Rios isn't retiring anytime soon in my opinion. He'll take a break and be right back.

He probably did say that on impulse knowing him, but his heart definitely isn't in there and his days are numbered. The combination of top rank not keeping him active and him not being in the gym until he had a fight scheduled were recipes for disaster and I don't see either one of those things changing. Its only a matter of time before someone actually KOs him into retirement with a chin shot this time.

[Zaroku]

Mexican Boxing DOWN THE DRAIN!! Boohoo! :'(

Brandon is an American from Kansas of Mexican ancestry!
His loss has no impact on Mexican boxing.

Mexican boxing won't go down the drain. New warriors minted monthly.

The better man won & that was Bradley!

[Brickyardigan]

If Rios is your boy, he got wrecked.

I been said Bradley was going to knock Buddy out. I was saying Brook ducked him.

[whoseyourdaddy]

Problem for Khan is Bradley can cut him up on the inside. Bradley would be back in Brawler mode and not let Khan breathe. I can see Bradley stopping Amir Khan. Too sharp, too versatile.

I put all my points on Khan, if it ever happen, there is a reason why Timmy avoided Khan for ever. there is a video out there where Khan tells Timmy in his face to grow some balls and he just look the other way.

[R_Walken]

Wrote before that I haven't watched the fight yet and was hoping Rios could pull off the upset but it seemed it played out the way most thought it would except I never would have guessed Bradley getting the KO

But this thread has been gold, due to the contributions from Hitking, Aboutfckntime, Redd Foxx, Doom Specialist , Brickyardigan , Radio Raheem and a couple others I'd green all of them if I could. Great opinions and insights as usual from all of them.

[St. Johns Gent]

Mexican Boxing DOWN THE DRAIN!! Boohoo! :'(

if a real mexican were to get the opportunities that bam bam had he wouldn't get fat and piss that opportunity down the drain

[The plunger man]

Overslept and missed the fricken fight. I'm ...worth watching on a replay ?

[big_james10]

Next up: Pacquaio vs Bradley III in April 2016