By Chris Williams: WBO light welterweight champion Tim Bradey says if he’s not bothered by WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s power in their 147 pound fight on June 9th next month, he’s going to turn it into a war.
Bradley told the manilatimes.net “If I don’t feel like he can hurt me then I’m definitely going to step into him to make a fight out of it.”
That’s the best way to do it. If Pacquiao couldn’t hurt Juan Manuel Marquez, then he won’t be able to hurt Bradley. But the important thing is Bradley has to get in close and keep the fight at a fast pace so that Pacquiao’s legs start cramping up, and age starts to show. Pacquiao is 33, but that’s an old 33 given all the wear and tear he’s accumulated in fights against Antonio Margarito, Juan Manuel Marquez, Joshua Clottey, Miguel Cotto and Erik Morales. Those were fights where Pacquiao took a lot of big shots.
Bradley is going to take the fight to Pacquiao in the same way he’s done it in the past in victories over Kendall Holt, Lamont Peterson, Junior Witter and Joel Casamayor.
Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is once again saying that Pacquiao is having the best training camp of his life, and that he’s never seen him work so hard or look so good. In other words, the exact same things that Roach said in Pacquiao’s last training camp before his fight against Marquez last November. After the fight, Roach changed his tune, saying that something wasn’t right with Pacquiao and that he couldn’t give it his all because of family problems. It just sounded like a trainer making a bunch of excuses for what his fighter couldn’t do in the ring. It may be that no matter how good Pacquiao looks in punching a heavy bag, speed bag or beating up on badly over-matched sparring partners, he’s not going to be able to take his body back to where it was physically in the prime of his career between 2004 and 2009. Those were the best years for Pacquiao, and he’s now a different fighter in 2012.
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