BOXNATION - Bradley vs Pacquiao II - Saturday fight night thread.

[Gandalf]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

[Spicoli]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

Not on the scale that Manny gave it away the first go. Come on. Manny earned this one back, and beat Tim up late and did well for a guy left on his face previous. He took it.

[Gandalf]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

Not on the scale that Manny gave it away the first go. Come on. Manny earned this one back, and beat Tim up late and did well for a guy left on his face previous. He took it.

Pac took it, but it was held out on a platter. No elite fighter poses on the ropes with his hands down against Pacquiao and Bradley gave away 2 rounds doing that. I don't understand why you would do that.

[chris6878]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

Not on the scale that Manny gave it away the first go. Come on. Manny earned this one back, and beat Tim up late and did well for a guy left on his face previous. He took it.

Pac took it, but it was held out on a platter. No elite fighter poses on the ropes with his hands down against Pacquiao and Bradley gave away 2 rounds doing that. I don't understand why you would do that.

Yea that was strange. Bradley thought he could just come in an ko manny with a pillow

[Violent Demise]

3rd fight? Shut the fuck up Jim

[imp]

3rd fight? Shut the fuck up Jim

Agreed.

[mnmc10]

i think deep down, after trying a couple of rounds to hurt pac tim gave up and focused on looking good instead

[Spicoli]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

Not on the scale that Manny gave it away the first go. Come on. Manny earned this one back, and beat Tim up late and did well for a guy left on his face previous. He took it.

Pac took it, but it was held out on a platter. No elite fighter poses on the ropes with his hands down against Pacquiao and Bradley gave away 2 rounds doing that. I don't understand why you would do that.

Stamina. Tim looked terribly sluggish from his last few starts and from a early point. Just like Provo..its not a guys choice..its more cause and effect and you needing to adapt. He was put there!

[Gandalf]

Bradley always had great stamina and would throw 800 punches a fight and sometimes 100 punches a round. It was one of his great qualities. I don't understand why you would come out winging wide punches with most of them missing and hope one strikes lucky. That isn't how top fighters operate and for sure his stamina was definitely off. Bradley pretty much admitted that the gameplan was to land a wide punch, but why would you do that when you know the other man is faster and will land more down the pipe. That makes it a lottery rather than a measured strategy.

Like I say, Manny deserved the win, but Bradley has been a better boxer than this and supposedly the Provodnokov fight was a wake up call in that regard but it seemingly wasn't. He should have been up 4-2 and boxed his way to a win, but completely untangled after giving away round 6.

[armin]

I think this fight told us that provo punched bradley stupid

[IamInuit]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

Not on the scale that Manny gave it away the first go. Come on. Manny earned this one back, and beat Tim up late and did well for a guy left on his face previous. He took it.

He did well friend but Tim lost the plot half way through round 6 and never found the page. Manny did well to capitalize but he has noticeably lost a heap of steps. Congrats to him though.

[Beanflicker]

I was really disappointed in Tim's strategy. I knew he was going to be more physical and try to look for the knockout, but I never imagined he'd reduce himself a "looking for one big punch" guy. I think he gassed himself early and Pac took over.

[Spicoli]

5-4 Pac. The sad thing is that I don't think Manny has shown anything special and Bradley has given rounds away with sloppiness. 9 minutes to go.

Totally agree. Manny may be running away with this but man has he slipped. No where near the fighter he was.

I think Pac may have edged this, but he didn't look very good. I think Bradley gave that away rather than Manny displaying anything special.

Not on the scale that Manny gave it away the first go. Come on. Manny earned this one back, and beat Tim up late and did well for a guy left on his face previous. He took it.

He did well friend but Tim lost the plot half way through round 6 and never found the page. Manny did well to capitalize but he has noticeably lost a heap of steps. Congrats to him though.

He def has slipped a notch. But it gives perspective seeing Manny slip in game and pulverized only to come back and top the guy who was said to be hitting his peak? I don't think Tim had a plot after the 6th before he even took the ring and I'm not convinced it would have mattered at all.

[Gandalf]

I'm really disappointed with Bradley as I think it was all there for him. He has never knocked people out and here he is thinking he is just going to knock out a top P4P fighter and pose on the ropes. I really don't understand the mentality. Bradley won rounds, he lost a couple by posing and ultimately lost the fight. Just silly and now he has a loss. What was the point in that? He was younger and fresher, but couldn't concentrate enough.

[Kirkland Laing]

Phillipino people. Who is the fucker with the Oakley style yellow glasses behind Manny when Larry Merchant is interviewing him? Some politician probably.