Timothy Bradley: record, next fight and profile →
Calling the fight for ESPN will be Joe Tessitore and Mark Kriegel, with guest analyst Tim Bradley, reporter Bernardo Osuna and on-location contributor Stephen A. Smith. ESPN Deportes’ coverage includes play-by-play from Pablo Viruega and analyst Delvin Rodriguez.
Palm Desert-based Back Story Publishing has released its inaugural book entitled “Hard to Heart: How Boxer Tim Bradley Won Championships and Respect,” a biography geared to middle-grade readers about five-time World Champion boxer and Palm Springs, CA, resident Tim Bradley. As an element in the standard agreement with a book’s subject, Back Story Publishing makes a $5,000 contribution to the charity of the subject’s choice.
Last month, former two division world champion Timothy Bradley (33-2-1, 13 KOs), only 34 years old, announced his retirement from the sport of boxing. For the majority of his career, Bradley was trained by veteran coach Joel Diaz. Their partnership came to a very heated and unexpected ending in 2015, after an internal dispute saw Bradley part ways with Diaz and hire Teddy Atlas.
Timothy Bradley will always appreciate how much fans enjoyed and respected his epic performance in that unforgettable brawl with Ruslan Provodnikov. Bradley was so dejected during the aftermath of his extremely controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao, the former two-division champion says he had suicidal thoughts. Beating Provodnikov in their stirring slugfest gave Bradley back his rightful place in boxing and re-established the confidence he needed to upset Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez in his following fight.
In a span of a week, Manny Pacquiao saw two of his main career rivals ride off into retirement. Last Friday, former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez announced his retirement. A day later, two division world champion Tim Bradley announced his own retirement from boxing. Pacquiao had three fights with Bradley and four fights with Marquez.
Timothy Bradley boxed 36 rough rounds against Manny Pacquiao, but it was another Pacquiao fight that convinced Bradley to retire. Bradley wasn’t sure if he wanted to fight again when he arrived in Australia to call Pacquiao’s upset defeat to Jeff Horn for ESPN last month. But after looking at a battered, bloodied Pacquiao following his controversial loss July 2 in Horn’s hometown of Brisbane, Bradley realized he didn’t want to box again.
This past Saturday night, former two division world champion Timothy Bradley (33-2-1, 13 KOs) announced his retirement from the sport of boxing. Bradley last fought in April of 2016, when he was dropped twice and lost a twelve round unanimous decision in his trilogy bout with Manny Pacquiao.
Tim Bradley Video Interview - Ukrainian southpaw Vasyl Lomachenko retained his WBO junior lightweight title, flooring challenger Miguel Marriaga with one second left in the seventh round en route to a technical knockout victory.
There always comes a point in life where we have to make choices that no matter how much we know the right option, it still leaves us filled with mixed emotions. I have spent the past couple days trying to find the right words to describe this point in my life and no matter how long I sit and reflect, I still don't know if these words can do my thoughts justice, but I'm going to do my best to open up my heart and share with all of you during this pivotal time.
Opinions appear to vary as to whether people think Manny Pacquiao’s controversial loss to Jeff Horn on Sunday was as suspect as his split-decision defeat to Timothy Bradley five years ago. Bob Arum, whose company promotes Pacquiao and co-promotes Horn, doesn’t think the decisions are comparable. ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas vehemently disagrees.