Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley met up for that finalpress conference ahead of Saturday night’s Pacquiao vs Bradley HBO pay-per-view main event from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO) will be defending his WBO welterweight title against Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO), who is looking to become a two-weight world titleholder, after multiple reigns at 140 pounds, and having ...
A crowd-filled MGM Grand welcomed the arrival of both fighters Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) and Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KOs) on Tuesday, June 5. Both camps arrives at Noon PT at the porte cochere and inside of MGM Grand front lobby. They arrive riding a luxury buses made through custom-designed with Pacquiao and Bradley images. Hundreds of die-hard fans chant for their idol as they entered the ...
The Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley World Welterweight championship match is 5 more days to go and the tension heats up as days go by. Two great boxers will be fighting inside the boxing ring to settle who is the great boxer. Manny Pacquiao is a highly picked 4-1 favorite on most betting sites online. The pound for pound Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) projected to dominate undefeated Bradley (28-0-0, 12 KOs) in this mega-fight in Las Vegas.
Many boxing fans believes the upcoming June 9 clash between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and unbeaten junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley will be an even more exciting fight than the recent Floyd Mayweather vs Miguel Cotto bout. Even many boxing analysts believes Pacquiao’s style will make for a more exciting encounter that Mayweather’s unanimous decision victory over Cotto ...
Get ready fans as we all awaits for the open to the PUBLICPacquiao vs Bradley Weigh-in on Friday, June 8, 2pm Eastern Time (11 am Pacific Time). It will then be followed by Tweet-Up event at the MGM’s Rouge Lounge. The boxers on the June 9 mega-fight must first step on the weighing scale before meeting the following night inside the ring. The expected weight of the two professional boxers, who ...
The last week premiere episode of HBO 24/7 Pacquiao vs Bradley was really a big bang! undefeated junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KOs) showed his identity of building the June 9 fight through his self promoting stuffs while WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) was continuing his rigorous training in Wild Card gym. The 24/7 Pacquiao vs Bradley Episode 2 is ...
Unbeaten junior welterweight contender Timothy Bradley has been working on trying to avoid head-butting opponents during fights as he prepares for his June 9 clash against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao and his camp have repeatedly expressed concerns over Bradley’s propensity for head-butting his foes, with Hall-of-Fame trainer Freddie Roach at one point saying he has ...
Few more years from now whether we like it or not Manny Pacquiao will retire from boxing. And that is why, Manny Pacquiao hopes boxing fans will remember his ring exploits for many years to come. Pacquiao said, he wishes that his story would inspire people the way he was inspired by boxing greats that came before him. “To be considered an all-time great is very important to me,” Pacquiao said. “Hopefully ...
The no. 2 pound for pound fighter and reigning WBO welterweight champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao will be defending his belt against the undefeated junior welterweight champion Timothy “The Desert Storm” Bradley. Boxing analyst Larry Merchant believes it is possible Timothy Bradley might get knocked out cold when he faces Manny Pacquiao this coming June 9 at the MGM Grand in ...
Undefeated junior Welterweight champion Timothy Bradley gets his hands taped during a jam-packed media day in preparation for his upcoming World Welterweight title fight against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Timothy Bradley’s fight week media day work out took place at the famed Kronk Gym. Less than three weeks before Pacquiao defends his mythical title of pound-for-pound king at ...
Many fight fans, who are for the most part Pacquiao fans, have been expressing their disapproval for Timothy Bradley's recent pre-fight self-promotion and cocky persona.
Bradley has in the last several days said everything from he will destroy Manny Pacquiao, that his famous multi-award winning trainer of the year Freddie Roach is overrated and even most cleverly made a cool rematch poster for "Timothy Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II" set for their rematch clause date in November which obviously implies that he already won the fight on June 9.
However, for those of us who have ever met Timothy Bradley before, we know this is not his personality. In fact, Bradley in his own words in an interview, stated how he disliked Floyd Mayweather for doing the very same thing that he is now doing.
I first met Bradley at the Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana fight back in December 2010 and asked him how he felt and even a prediction on how he would do against Devon Alexander.
At that time, his fight with Alexander was the biggest fight of his career with both of the top elite champions at 140 pounds fighting to unify the titles and it was hyped to be one of the most meaningful fights in the sport of boxing.
Bradley was very humble and genuine and told me he feels good and that he does not know how his fight with Alexander will go down. What I gathered from him was that he was indeed confident that he would beat Alexander, but he did not want to come across as an arrogant person.
If you recall all of the HBO promos and pre-fight segments such as the Face Off with Max Kellerman tended to be biased in favor of Devon Alexander at the time. It appeared to me that HBO was desperate for their next big all American star to be born and they were intending for it to be Devon Alexander.
Even during the Face Off with Max Kellerman we see a trash talking Alexander and his trainer trying to play mind games and punk Bradley, but Bradley does not fire back.
Bradley either just takes it in and gets irked by the taunts from Alexander and his trainer or perhaps even HBO cut off or edited what Bradley had to say back to Alexander, to make it look like he was getting owned in the Face Off?
Either way, Bradley did not fight fire with fire and trash talk Alexander back and it seemed that HBO wanted to edit the Face Off with Max Kellerman in a way that showed Bradley as intimidated or insecure, but I was not buying it.
It seemed to me that Alexander was the insecure one laughing and trying to get inside Bradley's mind that day, but it did not work.
As we all know, come fight night Bradley was the better man inside the ring as he dominated Alexander onto a unanimous technical decision. Was Bradley just simply on a different level? Or was he just more hungry and willing to take it that night? I would argue it was a little bit of both.
