I'm going to be honest, I never really liked him, I've always thought his style was incredibly ugly, and he intentionally came in with his head, none of his in-ring antics particularly endeared me to him, his barefaced evasion of Amir Khan made it worse. So when Pacquiao - Bradley was announced I was hoping Pacman KO'd him, I made a thread on here asking whether or not posters thought Arum would cash in on Pac in order to build bradley as his new superstar, most of the responses were no, as lets be honest, the guy had very few fans and it wouldn't be worth it So I got a few glimpses of his 24/7 with Pacquiao, and Tim seemed a pretty likeable guy, his attitude and his life were commendable and he gradually grew on me Come fight night, in the words of emmanuel steward, the fight went ...well, almost exactly as expected, but Bradley managed to exceed expectations. He trained for months, went out and fought the absolute best he could, and due to shady judging decisions, his stock has fallen incredibly, he's received death threats, emails, letters, videos, comments from people enraged over the decision, the problem is obviously, they are directing their anger at the wrong person I just feel sorry for him, fought the biggest fight of his life and performed as best he could, and has come out of it not looking good at all, and now without it seems, somebody to fight
he earned a cool $5M and can earn more if he gets the pac rematch. even if he won't get it, he would be making at least a million or two with any opponent which few boxers can earn right now. so there's no reason to pity him.
He's a boxer and a human being. As a human he's being **** on and as a boxer he's being...well, **** on, regardless of any money he'll make. Getting death threats & racism because Bap Arum fixed your fight is not cool.
Bradley really earned my respect with how he trained and how he fought and how he never quit he just kept fighting his fight and it paid off oddly enough Manny and Bradley never touched heads leading me to believe its unintentional and that much of the blame could maybe be on his opponents for hitting heads, i really thought Bradley was gonna use his head and be mean on the inside but he wound up boxing a pretty good fight and moving his feet very well
The death threats and pure unfiltered racism/etc Tim has had to deal with because of 3 judges decision is absolutely disgraceful. :deal
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You forgot to mention Bradley's shocking lack of power. I'll always hold that against him. However, Bradley's done really well for himself and he's earned some good dough. If he sticks around and keeps winning he'll get the big fights. In time the Pacquiao decision will seem less relevant.
i could stomach some racist comments like a filipino midget and a dog-eater from youtube if i can get even 10% of what bradley got. my guess is bradley is really not worried by some anonymous internet users that might be 8 year old kids.
What truly sucks is he just "Won" arguably the biggest fight possible in boxing & people are treating him like a plague. Haven't heard NO fighter calling him out or even interested in fighting against him.
how do you FEEL for someone who made a huge payday in a sport where most fighters make vritually nothing dont cry for Bradley. Look where he's at and look where Khan is at
Not only was he gifted with his biggest payday (which he actually deserved, to be fair), but he was gifted with a win he shouldn't have got. What's there to feel sorry for? I suppose the only thing you could feel bad over is that he didn't ask for that corrupt decision. He just went in there and performed the best he could. It's not his fault Manny got robbed. And in regards to those death threats. Ah come on, man. None of them were serious, were they? If they were measly little things like tweets, facebook comments, etc, then someone like Mayweather gets death threats every day. Ain't no thang, mayne.
I agree. Can't feel sorry for him, ESPECIALLY the ****-talking he did AFTER he got the massive gift decision. He went from saying that he was seriously hurt in the 4th round and that the Pacquiao of old would have finished him to saying that Pac is terrified of a rematch. :nut