The hate toward Bradley

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Simple... Because he's black

 

Rios got a gift.
Broner got a gift.

No one gives a ****.

Yet Bradly gets a gift against Pacquaio (who owes much of his clout to gift after gift) and the ******* media goes ape ****.

 

Bingo. HBO = Manny's promotional crew. Lampley's extremely biased commentary also set him up to disagree with the judges and add fuel to the fire.

I also have to imagine that a lot of Pac fans didn't watch Rios/Abril or any of other prominent robberies in recent years so Bradley is the face of all robberies in their minds.

 

Suddenly isn't the right word... After how he was treated over a circumstance he had nothing to do with, he has the right to now be jaded...

The boxing world has not been kind to him, so why should he continue to kiss its ass?

 

Oh so he's frontin huh? He doesn't actually wanna fight those guys, huh? Funny.

 

Had your back, Timmy. :hi:

 

How can anyone not admire a guy like Tim. Good father, good person and one of the biggest heart i've ever seen from a boxer. There is no quit in this guy.

 

Good post bro. Alot or broken people in this world. Broken people side with wrong for their own selfish reasons. Raise your kids right. Its all you can do.

 

Like Kellerman said, there's so much to like about Tim Bradley.

 

A lot of the outright hatred for Bradley comes from dip**** casuals who don't even follow the sport anyway. People that just saw him on the news as being winner of a robbery so they use that as excuse to trash him blindly. The fact that he doesn't have a built-in fanbase like a Pac, Marquez, or Floyd doesn't help his case, but tonight just proved he's as legit as they come.

 

I really don't think Bradley lost the Pac fight. Just saying.


I feel bad for him, because he imo won the fight despite having injuries to both ankles early in the fight. I thought Pac fought terribly and gave the fight away and deserved to lose a close one that he probably could have won by knockout.

Understandably, if Pac loses a close fight his fans (who are mostly Manny fans, not boxing fans) there will be an uproar the likes of which you don't hear when Pac win a close fight.

Bradley had to feel like all the fans and the entire boxing establishment turned on him. He was expecting to finally get the exposure and recognition he's deserved and it totally backfired on him, and he doesn't even get the dignity of a rematch to set it to rest. I think it's because Arum knows he's a bad match for Manny and wants to cash Manny out against some names. Now when Bradley fights it's like Lamps is constantly trying to undermine him.

I really think Bradley needs to go to Showtime and try to get a Mayweather fight. I've said it before, the commentators there will treat him right and he'll get the exposure of fighting on Mayweather cards/being mentioned alongside Mayweather, Canelo, etc. Showtime has a much more positive approach toward boxing.

Bradley just needs to keep winning, collect belts, keep attaching his name to established fighters, and travel a bit to get fans/exposure elsewhere.

Marquez: Beat the legend that knocked out Manny...in Mexico City.
Khan: Destroying Khan in the UK would be a step toward stardom.
Garcia/Peterson/Matthysse: Beat the man at 140.
Guerrero/Mayweather winner: Mayweather ("I beat the guy that beat Manny") Could even fight Guerrero if his stock rises.
Brook/Alexander winner: Brook, in the UK. If Alexander wins **** it.
Malignaggi/Broner winner: Pick up a belt, gain exposure on East coast (Paulie)/or vs. next big thing (Broner).
Rios/Alvarado winner: Fun fight
Ortiz: Fun fight.
Lopez: Fun fight.
Thurman: Fun fight.
Maidana: Fun fight.

Bradley has a lot of fights left and just needs to move smart. I'd favor him against anyone except Marquez or Mayweather, and even losing a fight like that could help him.

 

This, but the wave of hate was extremely undeserved and Bradley eventually just became reactive to all of it. It's kind of understandable he created a "me against the world" kind of attitude after being lost after all that backlash.

 

Definitely. He's still all around a classy guy with a very accomplished career who fights with skill and with heart. Like I said, I'm only annoyed when he insists on saying he won, his performance last night demands respect and his overall persona is likable. No real reason to hate on him, it's puzzling.

It's not about wanting to fight them, it's about talkin tough and straight up insulting fighters when you probably don't mean the things you say and never acted like that before.

His right to be jaded is kind of mitigated when he adds to the problem by insisting he won.