By William Mackay: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) wants the best opponent possible for his next fight under Top Rank Promotions. Bradley defeated 40-year-old Joel Casamayor by an 8th round TKO on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight earlier this month on November 12th in Bradley’s first fight with Top Rank.
Pacquiao vs. Bradley
Bradley looks horrible, Arum possibly interested in matching him against Pacquiao in the future
By Chris Williams: Maybe it’s just a sad coincidence but promoter Bob Arum has picked positively the worst time to get excited about matching Manny Pacquiao up with WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) following Bradley’s poor performance against WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander last weekend. Bradley may have won the fight but he really looked bad, showing zero power, average hand speed, no size and a tendency to ram heads with Alexander.
Arum doesn’t want to give Bradley or Williams a “free ride” by matching them against Pacquiao- News
By Jason Kim: Dan Rafael of ESPN reports that Bob Arum, the promoter of World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, isn’t interested in matching Pacquiao up with stars like Timothy Bradley and Paul Williams because Arum thinks they’re not well known enough by boxing fans, and he doesn’t want to give them a “free ride” by helping their careers by pitting them with his number #1 star Pacquiao. Arum says this about the talented unbeaten Bradley: