By Chris Williams: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) says he’s never been handled before by any opponent during his many years in the amateur and professional ranks, he doesn’t expect that to change on June 9th when he steps into the ring to face WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bradley said to RingTV “I don’t care what level you are, if you’re the best in the world, I’ve never been dominated, period. I don’t think this guy [Pacquiao] is invincible.”

Of course he’s not invincible. We just saw that in his questionable 12 round decision over 38-year-old lightweight Juan Manuel Marquez last November where Pacquiao won a gift decision in a fight where pretty much the entire boxing community saw Pacquiao losing. That tells you something, doesn’t it? The wheels are starting to come off the tracks for the Pacquiao machine.

Bob Arum can try and delay that from happening by putting him in with his Top Rank stable fighters but Bradley has enough skills to take this. He’s not the typical Top Rank fighter that Pacquiao has been fed the past couple of years by Arum. He’s not drained by a catchweight handicap, not coming off of a major beating and he’s not 40-years-old and shot to pieces. This means that Pacquiao can lose this fight unless we get another one of those crazy decisions where Pacquio appears to lose but is given the win anyway by at least two of the judges. I sure hope not because it’s bad for boxing to have judges giving decisions to fighters that don’t do enough in the ring to deserve the win.

Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer said during Pacquiao’s last training camp that this was the best he’d ever seen him before. Well, we saw how little Roach’s words mean when Pacquiao came out flat-footed against Marquez and immediately started getting spanked by him. The spanking continued all fight long and we never saw how great Pacquiao looked because he looked like he’d lost a step.

I now don’t buy any of the stuff that Roach says about Pacquiao in terms of him looking sensational because it just seems like tripe meant to influence fans. What Roach says and we see in the ring seem to be two different things. I expect Roach to say Pacquiao is having his best training camp ever and then come out fighting in the same flat-footed style against Bradley and get dominated.