Comments Thread For: Seeing Pacquiao Bloodied, Battered by Horn Made Bradley Retire

[Dark night 24]

Enjoy retirement champ.

[al-Xander]

Overpay Haymon fighters and they will think of retiring already. They don't even need superfights. Most of them are almost retired. Thurman, Peterson, Stevenson, Quillin, Jacobs, Degale, Lara, Williams, Charlo2, Berto, Porter, Andrade, Thurman is probably Swift's last fight this year. Nobody knows when he's going to be back. Young fighters in their prime fighting once a year.

[New England]

So a fight fans universally think Manny won convinced him to retire because Manny as always had some damage?

didn't watch manny in his prime, doesn't know a ton about boxing and really have an understanding of what it does and how it can turn a great athlete and one of the best boxers ever into a dude who went life and death with jeff horn.


take your money and get out while you still can. i guarantee you that you'd feel differently if you saw one of these guys on one of their "bad days" when they couldn't talk right or even get up in the morning.

[Larry the boss]

Overpay Haymon fighters and they will think of retiring already. They don't even need superfights. Most of them are almost retired. Thurman, Peterson, Stevenson, Quillin, Jacobs, Degale, Lara, Williams, Charlo2, Berto, Porter, Andrade, Thurman is probably Swift's last fight this year. Nobody knows when he's going to be back. Young fighters in their prime fighting once a year.

what does Haymon have to do with this thread?

[Liondw]

Good decision by Bradley. A career to be proud of. If any of you are in your forties, it's kinda like this, one day and then over weeks and months you just see you can't workout like you used to anymore. The body takes longer to recover and you cannot do as much as you'd like to. Your mind wants to, but the body can't do what you could when a few years younger. As Oscar De La Hoya said, he tried to train for a comeback but the body just didn't respond well enough anymore. Hopkins, everybody knows he would beat Joe Smith a few years ago but at 51 yrs and 11 mths there is no way you can fight as well in the ring in a pro fight anymore.

[HanzGruber]

Overpay Haymon fighters and they will think of retiring already. They don't even need superfights. Most of them are almost retired. Thurman, Peterson, Stevenson, Quillin, Jacobs, Degale, Lara, Williams, Charlo2, Berto, Porter, Andrade, Thurman is probably Swift's last fight this year. Nobody knows when he's going to be back. Young fighters in their prime fighting once a year.

thuman is injured smart guy..

[Zaroku]

more like Bradley watching a basic fighter like horn (who pac would've utterly destroyed a few yrs back) give pac a tougher than expected fight made him realize that its better to get out before you get beaten by a school teacher.

This right here^^^^^ exactly!

[22k]

didn't watch manny in his prime, doesn't know a ton about boxing and really have an understanding of what it does and how it can turn a great athlete and one of the best boxers ever into a dude who went life and death with jeff horn.

Age, attrition over time, fighting above your real weight class, & not really taking the fight seriously because it's an unknown opponent.

[champion4ever]

I agree. He made a very wise choice. Once the passion is gone for something that you used to love and you are financially set for the rest of your life, then what is the use for your continuing? To just become a mercenary fighter; while risking your health and legacy in the process?

Why risk long term and serious injury to your health, once a boxer realizes his body is older, slower, tired and is no longer capable of doing what it once was capable of doing? Then at the point, I think it is in the best interest of that fighter to just retire and find himself a new trade.

I am not referring to Pac because he fighting under special circumstances.

[j.razor]

Overpay Haymon fighters and they will think of retiring already. They don't even need superfights. Most of them are almost retired. Thurman, Peterson, Stevenson, Quillin, Jacobs, Degale, Lara, Williams, Charlo2, Berto, Porter, Andrade, Thurman is probably Swift's last fight this year. Nobody knows when he's going to be back. Young fighters in their prime fighting once a year.

I see you don't watch much boxing....