Timothy Bradley vs. Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao II RBR

Yep, fully understand what ordinary means. And when I say ordinary, I say ordinary in comparison to all eras, not just today. You boys just keep darting yourselves over your top 10

 

Tim fought better this fight but there's just a difference in levels between these 2. I had it 8 rounds to 4, PAC. Manny did well but Tim made it a difficult fight by switching up his gameplan constantly. He'd bang and box but Manny was faster and was finding a home for the left hand that Kept Tim off balance. Both fought a tactical fight but Manny was able to control the pace and dictate the action. Props to both fighters.....both are top 5 p4p fighters deserving of their status.

 

close fight

 

That's cool, don't take it personally. Entitled to your opinion.

 

First.....your card is a disgrace.... Second....your perception that Tim is "Ordinary" is criminal. Bradley doesn't deserve to be called ordinary....he's a proven champion....a top 5 p4p fighter and has won titles in multiple divisions. I see you want to take away from Manny's win by saying Tim is an average joe who somehow made it to a few world titles and fumbled his way to the top of everyone's p4p ratings.....but you know that's just bullsh*t that no one is buying.

 

7-5 for Pacman. Bradley blew his momentum midfight with his hands low like that and eventually got dazed. Not surprised he did catch and stunned Manny several times.

 

I scored the main event for Pacquiao, 7-5 rounds, 115-113 points, giving Bradley rounds 1, 4, 5, 6, and 11. Many rounds were close, and a few were difficult to score, especially the 1st, which I gave to Bradley for two brief spurts of activity. Pacquiao won the 2nd for a couple flurries in the second half of the round, and one hard left that buckled Bradley's knees. Pacquiao edged the 3rd by being on the front foot and slightly outlanding Bradley. Rounds 4-6 was Bradley's best period of the fight, he consistently backed up Pacquiao while boxing from distance, and landed multiple hard shots in each round, including two hard rights in the 4th (one buckled Pacquiao's knees), a R-L-R sequence late in the 5th, and several hard single lefts and rights in the 6th.

Pacquiao won the 7th with two separate flurries in the final minute that backed Bradley against the ropes; Bradley kept his distance, and countered with a few partially blocked head shots. The 8th round, Pacquiao moved forward the entire round, while Bradley kept backing up while showboating with his arms down; Pac landed very little, but Bradley landed even less. In the 9th, Pacquiao had Bradley off balance twice in the first minute, though replay showed one of those was due to Pacquiao stepping on Bradley's foot, and Bradley landed his own share of head shots in the exchange; with about a minute left, Pac had the best moment of the round with two hard lefts that knocked Bradley into the ropes.

The 10th was very close, with neither landing much of note, but Pac was on the front foot during the round, and marginally outpotshotted Bradley. In the 11th, Bradley was on his bicycle the entire round, with Pacquiao stalking him, but Pac threw very little, and Bradley landed several single shots to the head, including a hard right late in the round. In the 12th, after an initial toe-to-toe exchange, Pac backed up Bradley, landed two hard lefts during the middle minute, and outlanded Bradley from distance the rest of the way.

In sum, Bradley had significant success in the first half of the fight by boxing from distance, yet also consistently being the one more often moving forward, backing up Pacquiao, and landing several hard head shots in rounds 4-6. For some reason, Bradley started retreating in the 8th, and Pacquiao became the aggressor, moving forward stalking Bradley, initiating more of the exchanges. Bradley did show some defensive skills in moving his head and torso to avoid many of Pacquiao's punches, but it seemed he fell too much in love with avoiding punches, and stopped initiating offense of his own. He was much less active in the second half of the fight, and was mostly reduced to counterpunching in the final five rounds; the problem is he is not a counterpuncher, and his punches lacked timing, and tended to be looping over-the-top shots devoid of power. Except for those rounds 4-6, he showed little of the in-and-out movement, speed, and skill that he showed in the JMM fight. Considering that Pacquiao did not show fearsome power tonight, I am not sure why Bradley was retreating so much; I would guess he incurred an injury, except he looked perfectly fine postfight. Good performance by Pacquiao, and a disappointing performance by Bradley. Pacquiao has now clearly won BOTH their fights, but given the lack of TR options at 147, they might well fight each other again.

 

Why why why why why? Fuk why?

 

More concerned with fighting "the fan's" fight instead of fighting the way he wanted to. TB probably won't get death threats this time though.

 

Rewatched it on local TV this time and while I had it initially 115-113 Pacquiao (on a blurry stream), I can now safely agree with the majority of the people here that it is indeed a clear 116-112 Pacquiao.

Bradley, in all his youth and peak, simply can't match the stamina and workrate of an already fading Pacquiao.
I see this kinda similar to Pac-Cotto in that Cotto was having success early on, only to be drawn to trade with Pac and then ultimately run out of "outs" to his strategy.
This is the first time I saw Pac adjust his gameplan (especially how to negate that looping right hand of Bradley and taking the fight inside), and much kudos to Roach for that.

 

I love reading IB's RBR threads. I don't get many of those fights over here in Germany, especially not at 5 or 6 am in the mornings. But reading those threads is almost like watching a fight, just inside your head.
Thanks for that, IB!
Have you ever thought of recording it with a cam? I am amazed how you manage to do it while watching a fight. Especially when you are doing 2 RBRs at the same time.
I would love to see that recorded (no homo). I just don't know how that works.

 

I couldn't agree more. I'm clueless. He should have fought the Marquez game plan and boxed.

 

Were you posting CJ Ross' scoring for the first fight, or is this seriously your scoring of the second fight? lol

 

It you think that was a schooling YDKSAB

 

Manny should've lost last night.

You people need to go and watch the fight with sound off, Manny was hitting but AIR all night long, with his ridiculous pac****s screaming and gasping for air.