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

[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