Tim Bradley,"I'm taking this fight at 147 because there was nobody else to fight."

Here's the full quotes;

Tim why the move to 147 pounds. I think they are trying to make you viable for Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao if those two can't get together. I think you are the most deserving fighter to fill that void if they can't come to terms.

TB: Thanks, I appreciate that. If they can't get it together, I would be happy to step up. I'm taking this fight at 147 though because there was nobody else to fight. The fight with Marcos Maidana fell through and nobody was available, so I want to see how I feel. If I feel good, I will go back and forth.

Many people thought you didn't want to fight Devon Alexander, but I understand that boxing is also a business and everything is not as easy as it seems.

TB: You're absolutely right. I have no problem fighting anybody if the money is right.

 

He will lose to either Mayweather or Pacquiao easily in which it will ruined the big fight at 140 pounds in Bradley vs Alexander. The so called "build up" would be out of the window. I told you this before that both Bradley and Alexander don't deserve a big fight vs Mayweather or Pacquiao until THEY FACE EACH OTHER IN WHICH CLEAN OUT THEIR DIVISION!!!!!!!

 

"because there was nobody else to fight"????? Umm ok.

 

Tim Bradley or Devon Alexander should fight Ruslan Provodinikov to prove they are Euro level (elite) fighters.

Yep.

 

So he should pass up a huge payday and a chance at greatness just to fight against a good fighter? You need to learn about risk and reward. If you want a big reward, then you need to take a big risk. If a fight with Mayweather or Pacquiao were to come available, Bradley should jump all over it. Now that probably won't happen, but if he does, only a ****** would suggest that he pass it up just to fight Alexander.

The fight between Bradley and Alexander will probably happen in the fall or winter. The only way it doesn't happen is if Bradley gets offered a fight with Pac, May, Berto, Mosley, Khan, or Maidana. Alexander's own people said they wanted to wait until the fall or winter to fight Bradley. They only started spouting off at the mouth when Bradley had an opponent. Cunningham is simply tryin to hype this fight. It's obviously working as Alexander pole jockers are eating it up.

 

yeah. what a pathetic quote. he needs to man up and fight alexander like, now, before he loses his cred.

 

Alexander. Ducking. ...I deleted a paragraph of me ranting about it for your benefit. In short, I don't blame him for chasing the money fights, but the crap he's talking is bogus for a variety of reasons and it pisses me off.

 

About the whole big risk/big reward thing, I don't buy it. If he lands a pac, fmj, or to a lesser extent moseley or kahn there is big reward (again lesser with mosely and khan and I don't see berto or maidana really as big selling fights at alll), but there's not too much risk cuz even if he loses to fmj, pac, or say moseley he can always write it off to being out of his weight class and return to lww. Also, is he really going to land a pac or fmj fight? These guys want big selling fights and is bradley really going to bring that? There's more risk fighting Alexander cuz if he loses there, he no longer has a claim to being the man at lww. Arguably there's more reward to fighting Alexander cuz he will be the man at LWW and it might go along way to selling a fight w/ pac or fmj (cuz again why would these two really want to try and sell a big fight with just a "belt holder" at lww)

 

Wrong once again bigreg. Alexander wanted to fight Bradley next before Bradley vs Abregu was agree upon until Bradley cancel that to fight Maidana but that didn't happen of the situation w9ith Maidana's people. After Bradley vs Maidana was cancel, guess who wanted to fight Bradley next?

 

Big reg, do you really, really think Bradley will fight either Mayweather or Pacquiao anytime soon? Didn't Arum said that Bradley can't draw flies?????????? And you should know Mayweather will never fight Bradley cause like Arum, Mayweather won't fight Bradley cause Bradley can't draw unless it's in his hometown. If Bradley wants those big big fights then he need to fight Alexander for the undisputed championship to get better exposure in which big big paydays will be there. Bradley should learn alot from prime Judah and Kostya who both fought each other without acting like they are mega stars like Bradley is doing.

 

Really? I think Bradley would cream Khan. You may not call him a big puncher but he put Witter down and Cherry and they both have much better chins than Khan.

 

This thing about Bradley and Alexander somehow reminds me about Hatton and Witter at their time in the 140-pounders. Bradley moves up to make himself a viable option for either Mayweather or Pacquiao and steps aside from a natural confrontation with a WBC-IBF titlist at his weight class just like Hatton moved up to take on Collazo and down again to regain a IBF title against Urango and back up again, completely disregarding Junior Witter in the process. Well, if the story is well told, Alexander and Bradley beat Witter and Alexander beat Urango 2 so the question is all about Bradley risking his status against a much better known fighter much above his own status as a boxer...

 

I really rate Bradley and he's great to watch but I'm not going to defend him on this. He is avoiding Alexander and while I understand the whole risk/reward thing I don't agree with it. It's one of the things which has done a lot of harm to boxing. At the end of the day, if you want to make more money then fight more often, fight everybody. Fighters are always looking for one big payday these days. Maybe I would too in their shoes, after all they have to consider their health and so on but as a fan I just want to see boxers boxing.

 

Usually when fights are put off because it isnt big enough yet, then the fight doesnt happen...