Damn boxing fans ,grow up
I don't understand why people refuse to give Tim Bradley credit. The man outclassed one of Mexico's best and people are saying Marquez was robbed or "Bradley was given a gift". The.fact is that Bradley has shown last night, that he has tweaked himself for the better. He looked slick , light on his feet and crisp against one of your favorite fighters....u mad ?o_O His last fight people liked him for getting beat up, when he obviously could have boxed provodnokov easily , yet his mind was stuck on pacquiao. He wasn't thinking of the opponent in front of him , only redemption from the last bout he had. Last night he made the right move and channeled that need for redemption and recognition and put on a show. He must now be considered p4p and the fact is , if you don't respect Bradley , u r obviously a butthurt Pac fan , or a butthurt Marquez fan. Congrats on a great win Tim ! Keep boxing like you did last kght and you'll be undefeated for a good while !
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
It's sad that world class skills are so unappreciated by today's boxing fans. I mean I love a great slugfest as much as anyone, but I can't believe people are actually shitting on Bradley for choosing not to brawl with JMM.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Credit is hard to come by when clearly, Bradley only outpointed the pee-juice version of JMM.
It's the version that lacks any motivation nor courage to go on in any level of offensive at any point in the game but forever waits to purely just counter-punch regardless of the many opportunities presented during the fight... for easier referencing, the JMM version that fought Floyd Joy Jr.
Justifiably so... because when Juan Manuel Marquez finally did, the greatest fighter of all time hailing from Mexico, summoned enough bravado in the last few remaining rounds, particularly as in the twelfth, he almost got KOed... clobbered by a pillow-fisted feather duster!
That was one hell of an encounter indeed... well worth the moolah in this cash-strapped times! :;D
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Quote:
Originally Posted by
TheBlondeBomber
I don't understand why people refuse to give Tim Bradley credit. The man outclassed one of Mexico's best and people are saying Marquez was robbed or "Bradley was given a gift". The.fact is that Bradley has shown last night, that he has tweaked himself for the better. He looked slick , light on his feet and crisp against one of your favorite fighters....u mad ?o_O His last fight people liked him for getting beat up, when he obviously could have boxed provodnokov easily , yet his mind was stuck on pacquiao. He wasn't thinking of the opponent in front of him , only redemption from the last bout he had. Last night he made the right move and channeled that need for redemption and recognition and put on a show. He must now be considered p4p and the fact is , if you don't respect Bradley , u r obviously a butthurt Pac fan , or a butthurt Marquez fan. Congrats on a great win Tim ! Keep boxing like you did last kght and you'll be undefeated for a good while !
I am a Pacquiao fan and Bradley won that fight last nite. He made it look easy.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Quote:
Originally Posted by
imp
Theres still alot of anger over the manny fight. People blame bradley for this for some reason.
Bradley is good in all areas but great in heart.
See. This. This is a sensible statement. Bradley isn't "great" so to speak, but good enough in all areas to get the job done , with more heart than most of his division
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
This is what I hate about bradley...I moved.
If I hadn't moved I would have seen 20 of his fights; 16 were fought about 1/2 mile from where I lived for 7 years. It bothers me that a guy is fighting in and winning major fights and, if he had had the decency to start fighting 6 or 7 years sooner, I would have seen him from his first fight. That bothers me.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Quote:
Originally Posted by
greynotsoold
This is what I hate about bradley...I moved.
If I hadn't moved I would have seen 20 of his fights; 16 were fought about 1/2 mile from where I lived for 7 years. It bothers me that a guy is fighting in and winning major fights and, if he had had the decency to start fighting 6 or 7 years sooner, I would have seen him from his first fight. That bothers me.
Lol
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
A lot of boxing fans are naturally negative and unwilling to give the benefit of the doubt in most cases.
Winning over boxing fans in a "majority" is a very difficult thing to do. Especially difficult with a fighter like Bradley...he's not overly slick, he doesn't have amazing power or speed, he is just an outright fighter. He has good solid skills that he uses to his advantage, he's a smart fighter, and he wins rounds. If Bradley had big time KO power people would be clamoring for him to fight Floyd, ditto if he was a really slick boxer, but he's not one of those extremes...most boxers aren't so the guys who like the sweet science AND the guys who like KO's are bummed out about Tim Bradley. He's a very solid fighter, I would say he's almost this era's Carmen Basilio. He's small, always the underdog and he doesn't care, he comes in and does his work in a blue collar style. Nothing but respect for him.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Also boxing fans like opposing forces, rivalries, adversity, peers:
Ali-Frazier-Foreman
Leonard-Hearns-Duran-Hagler
De la Hoya-Mosley-Trinidad
RJJ-Toney-Hopkins
Eubank-Benn-Collins
Lewis-Tyson-Holyfield
I think Bradley kind of messes up "the natural rivalry" between the older guard, better established fighters Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez....but it's not his fault, he's just fighting the best out there now and to his credit he's beating them more often than not. The fight vs Provodnikov is something that needs to be revisited, I think everyone agrees to that.
Bradley would have been the perfect foil at 140 for Hatton and Cotto, maybe Judah or Mosley as well. Those would have been nice to see. I welcome him as a fighter, he's respectful, he's a good person outside the ring, a hard worker, he gives his heart in the ring. He deserves to be respected.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
You should go back and read some of the older threads about him. He was taking flack from the start and praised with reservation by most. I've not seen him called a bore, a ducker or a head butting cheat in awhile which was bs all along. It's one thing to have an honest thought out opinion, favorable or unfavorable, on a guy but we all know that quickly veers in to distortion and just disdain for a fighter. That is unreasonable, saying you think a guy lost a couple fights he won is not. Every fighter has things follow them, is it his fault? No. Negative and brash sell in this sport, its often looked at as a guy 'selling tickets'. Too many characters and con jobs reading headlines. Bradley is an honest professional in that all he does is fight and I've not seen him grow a big head and only hope keeps humble and improving.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Watching the fight for the first time now. Got Bradley ahead but I just can't stand the douchebag. He's such a fucking tryhard with the shaking of the head after rounds and raising his arms like he's just knocked a man down. Saw a little clip of the highlights and post fight beforehand on youtube and heard him saying "destined for greatness I told y'all". Such an irritating cunt.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Quote:
Originally Posted by
jahmez
Watching the fight for the first time now. Got Bradley ahead but I just can't stand the douchebag. He's such a fucking tryhard with the shaking of the head after rounds and raising his arms like he's just knocked a man down. Saw a little clip of the highlights and post fight beforehand on youtube and heard him saying "destined for greatness I told y'all". Such an irritating cunt.
this is my problem with bradley
al this "i just gave him a boxing lesson" and talking shit to the camera and all that
when you win, just smile and tell everyone how pleased you are, dont be a cunt about it
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Quote:
Originally Posted by
imp
Theres still alot of anger over the manny fight. People blame bradley for this for some reason.
Bradley is good in all areas but great in heart.
It's not the I blame Bradley for the judges call but but I have disdain for his flippant attitude when he says he easily won the Pac fight and after watching it several times he feels he won it 8-4. What the hell fight was he watching. Why didn't he just say it was a close, tough fight instead of implying he ran away with it. His statements are an insult to boxing fans. Does he think if he looks in a camera and says that several times we will believe it. That is why I don't like Bradley. Also, that preflight tough talk he does doesn't become him. I know it's boxing and its part of the game but he plays the humble part much better.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Sounds like a smart man following the set course of get some to hate you so they pay to watch you lose, get some to love you so they pay to watch you win; thats still a win/win.
Good luck to him, he walks his talk, no problem here.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
im not sure why people who thought that JMM won need to "grow up?" i admit that i dont like bradley for various reasons but i just saw JMM win the fight. as others have said, he acted like he dominated JMM which he did not. even if he won, i dont think that he even really dominated a single round in that fight. he may have won some but did not dominate.
Re: Damn boxing fans ,grow up
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Andre
Sounds like a smart man following the set course of get some to hate you so they pay to watch you lose, get some to love you so they pay to watch you win; thats still a win/win.
Good luck to him, he walks his talk, no problem here.
the problem with this though is that i dont care about bradley enough just to watch him lose. its not like other fighters to where i may not be that interested in the fight but im watching for the fact that i want to see that fighter lose. i want bradley to lose, but if he fought a nobody then i wouldnt really care.
