By Chris Williams: WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (30-0, 12 KO’s) thinks his October 5th fight against Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) will be a tougher fight for him now than a rematch against Manny Pacquiao. Bradley sees it this way because of the confidence that Marquez has going into the fight after his 6th round KO win over Pacquiao from last December.
Bradley said to the Boxing Channel “I wanted the guy that beat Manny, so I chose Marquez. He’s a tougher fight [than Pacquiao] because he’s full of confidence…he’s 40-years-old, but he most have seen something he can expose in the [Ruslan] Provodnikov, because before that his trainer didn’t want no piece of me…this will be an opportunity for me to get the respect from boxing by beating a legend like Juan Manuel Marquez and I mean business.”