Bradley signs with HBO, will fight Abregu on June 26th – News
March 12th, 2010
By Eric Thomas: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (25-0, 11 KO’s) has signed with HBO, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. Bradley, 26, has been fighting on Showtime as of late. However, Showtime didn’t have him under contract, which enabled HBO to scoop him up for their network. This move should enable Bradley to be set up against other top light welterweights that HBO has been showing on their cable network, like Devon Alexander. For the time being, Bradley will be matched up with welterweight contender Luis Carlos Abregu (29-0, 23 KO’s) on June 26th.
Other than the Gutierrez fight, Abregu has faced only a couple of notable fighters, beating Irving Garcia and David Estrada. Abregu barely beat Estrada and looked totally gassed in the last three rounds of his 10 round split decision win in December 2008. At 5’10”, Abregu will have a four inch height advantage over the 5’6” Bradley.
Bradley is hoping to fight the best fighters in the light welterweight. Provided that he gets by Abregu in one piece, Bradley will be looking to take on fighters like Alexander, Marcos Maidana, Amir Khan. The good thing about Bradley signing with HBO is that it will be easier for him to get a fight against the top light welterweights, because HBO has Alexander, Maidana and Khan already fighting on their network, to it shouldn’t be hard for Bradley to get a fight against them.
In his last fight, Bradley dominated light welterweight contender Lamont Peterson, beating him by a 12 round decision in December. Bradley looked to be on his way to victory in a no contest with Nate Campbell last year in August. The fight was stopped because of a bad cut over the eight eye of Campbell due to a head butt. Bradley also has wins over Junior Witter, Miguel Vazquez, Edner Cherry, and Kendall Holt. Bradley would like to fight Alexander, who recently defeated IBF light welterweight champion Juan Urango by an 8th round stoppage last weekend.
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@Bob
Hype job? fighter with 10 fights treated like god are an hype job, abregu is a hardened veteran with good punching who deserves this chance (but i cant see him beating bradley anyway)
bradley is going to taste 100% argentine beef. AGUANTE ARGENTINA PAPA!!!!!!!!!!!
Easy win for Bradley. His Amateur was @ welterweight, hes gonna have more power along w/ his slick boxing style. Even if abregu is a big puncher it won’t matter, just look @ the Urango Alexander fight.U can’t hurt wut u can’t hit.
Bradley hasn’t ducked anyone !!! He wants to fight Alexander any Khan and everyone else out there… He had to take a fight @ 147, no one else wanted to fight him. To all you haters, let me say this one more time. Bradley had two belts and had two mandatories to defend… He agreed to fight Campbell first, so he had to give up a belt… U can’t fight two mandatories at once!!! Sorry Bradley didn’t getted babied like Khan, Khan got Maidana to agree to a 3 fight waiting period, must be nice!!! Bradley was forced to surrender a belt, why did Khan get to delay a mandatory for 3 fights??? Paper Champion that Khan is…
Bradley is ready to fight anyone, he is the best and all you haters need to just shut up and watch him continue to win, and take out all the top guys!!!
duck devon? have you compared and contrasted anonymous, Devon is bush league compared to Bradley, he didn’t even beat Witter convincingly, Witter quit because he threw his arm out on a crazy punch. When your’e the best you want to fight the best and Devon hasn’t even been tested against a quality opponent. Amir Khan is a chump as well, who has he fought at the top of the division?
agree with scotty and stu 100%
oli lives in cookoo land the idiot !!!!!
bradley ducked devon let everyone get matchups at 140 then the act comes in i want devon !!!! yeah tim get real you want another lamont to beef your resume.
khan would get bashed for this !!!!!
I agree there weren’t many options for Bradley. It would have been to stay with Showtime for 1 more fight and ink a deal against Valero. Now this fight is almost certainly out of the works for the immediate future, being they share different networks now.
Scotty: Im well aware of him vacating the title but the reasoning was not to duck him. Devon Alexander was virtually green at the time and has just come on in his last two fights. Bradley was looking for someone to pad his resume after coming off an upset with Kendall Holt, enter Nate Campbell. Like I said Bradley isnt worried about Alexander and the only reason he wants to fight him now is to get those belts off him and prove hes the best at 140.
bradley keeps saying no one wants to fight him but before he was on showtime and the date he wanted was in june. most of the fighters who were coming up like maidana, khan, alexander, ortiz
did not want to wait that much to fight a fighter who is not really known on the general boxing public and would not offer them half the money hbo would. if a fighter can make more money, be more exposed to the people and still have the chance to get a world title sooner they are more likely to take it. if you notice all the fighters took fights in the first 3 4 month’s so they could have more fights this year.
@Bob
quite stupid to call the south american fighter and hype job but i guess you are a jerk so it dosent matter. I have seen abregu myself like in 8 of his fights and hes lacking in world caliber footwork or speed but he does have an interesting punch (a little below maidana anyway) this would be a good test for bradley and maybe and upset for abregu. (im expecting it for my fellow argentinian)
haha this goes for (stu) abregu is a pretty big puncher 29-0-23ko that 23ko would scare khan even tho for my taste abregu is too slow to hang in with the top fighters. he is a really good fighter but is going to need to improve a lot to be a top contender. he does punch pretty hard tho..we’ll find out if bradley has a good chin but i think bradley boxing skill and speed will be 2 much for abregu.
Stu,Scotty: You two can’t read? Bradley took a step forward in his career moving to HBO. Now it will be easier to fight the likes of Maidana, Khan and Alexander with less hassle in negotiations. Bradley’s never dodged anyone, I can assure his #1 goal is to unify those belts, and he def. isnt worried about Alexander.
If Stu and Scotty knew what they were talking about and didnt bum khan so much, they’d know that Bradleys fighting this guy because NOBODY else wanted to fight him, everyone at 140 signed up to fight somebody else.
And Alexander fights judah then he wont get support for it
if khan was fighting abregu you’d have over 100 responses accusing him of cherry picking & ducking. just saying.
A great step forward in the career of Tim Bradley, now he can be seen on the bigger stage. The cowards at 140 they know who they are, cannot run forever
What country is Abregu from? If he’s from South America he might be a hype job.
I’m happy for Bradley. Seems like this guy should have been with HBO long ago. He’s going to prove he’s worthy and dominate the 140s. You can run but not hide.
140 is heating up.