Bradley: I beat Pacquiao 8 rounds to 4

By Boxing News - 03/23/2014 - Comments

bradley135By Chris Williams: Last Saturday night in the Manny Pacquiao – Tim Bradley face off with Max Kellerman, Bradley stood firm with Kellerman when he brought up their previous fight from 2012 and seemed to be trying to get Bradley to admit that he lost that fight. Bradley wasn’t going to play Kellerman’s game, so he shut him down in mid-sentence when he brought it up, and this left Kellerman stuttering briefly.

Kellerman: “You went back and reviewed the tape. You’re one of the most honest.”

Bradley: “8-4.”

Kellerman: “You won the fight 8-4?”

Bradley: “8-4.”

Kellerman: “Pacquiao-Bradley I?”

Bradley: “Pacquiao-Bradley 1. I won that fight 8 rounds to 4.”

Kellerman: “How did you get those 8 rounds?”

Bradley: “By out-boxing him,” Bradley said to HBO. “He [Pacquiao] missed the majority of the punches he threw at me. I continue to beat the odds every time out. I’m capable of doing it anytime I want to. As long as I put my mind to it, I’m going to do whatever I want to.”

Kellerman seemed to want to get Bradley to say that he lost the fight for some reason. I’m not sure why he went in that direction because he had to know how Bradley felt all this time. The man watched his own fight, and he saw himself winning 8 rounds. I don’t know what Kellerman couldn’t understand about that.

Bradley did fight well enough to win 8 rounds to 4. He worked harder than Pacquiao in that fight, especially in the 2nd half of the fight when Pacquiao got tired and was just fighting one minute of every round. Bradley was pushing the fight to him, and fighting harder in the last minute of the round. Pacquiao was fighting hard during the 2nd of the round, but then he’d do very little in the last minute and this would allow Bradley to take charge.

Instead of Kellerman and Pacquiao griping about what is already over and done with, they should be focusing on the future. The past is over with, and they just need to move and forget about it. Pacquiao can’t go back and fight the past because he had his chance in that fight and he came up short. The judges made their decision in giving Bradley the win, and that’s how it went.

Judge Duane Ford scored it 115-113, and C.J. Ross 115-113, both for Bradley. The only judge that had Pacquiao winning the fight was Jerry Roth, who scored it 113-115.



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