By Chris Williams: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley says he’s 100% natural on natural supplements to supply his strength and ability. He’s got a fight coming up against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on June 9th, and when asked about blood testing for the Pacquiao fight to check for performance enhancing drugs, Bradley told writer Kevin Davis at boxingsocialist.com that he doesn’t care one way or another about the tests.

Bradley said this in the boxingsocialist.com interview about blood testing “It doesn’t matter. I’m going to beat him [Pacquiao] anyway. You know, I’m not saying Manny is on steroids or not…I don’t know but it ain’t going to help him in this fight.”

Ouch! Bradley was really slamming Pacquiao here and tip-toeing around the performance enhancing stuff. I don’t believe Pacquiao is using PEDs. I just think he might getting worked too hard by his strength trainer Alex Ariza. Pacquiao needs to just focus on sparring and light road work rather than what he’s been doing. He needs to make some changes in his training.

Bradley is considered an underdog in this fight, but given his youth, determination, him having never been beaten, and Pacquiao’s problems with leg cramps, Bradley has a real good chance of beating Pacquiao on June 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be a huge win, but not an upset as far as I’m concerned. Pacquiao has been showing signs of fading for the last three fights, but he’s been fortunate to have soft matchmaking for two of those fights and in his third, Pacquiao got a questionable decision over Juan Manuel Marquez. I had Marquez winning that fight comfortable. Pacquiao will probably do well in the first few rounds, but once his leg cramps stat rearing their ugly heads, Pacquiao will become grounded and start taking punishment like an older fighter. It’s too bad Pacquiao’s strength trainer Alex Ariza likely won’t be able to whip Pacquiao into the kind of shape where the leg cramps won’t happen but I don’t think he will. I see it as age related.