Bragging Bradley now comes begging
By Recah Trinidad
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 29 Aug 2012
HE sent the boxing world down laughing hoarse on the floor with an invitation to his rematch with Manny Pacquiao well ahead of their world welterweight championship fight in Las Vegas last June 9.
Sorry, but after the unthinkable happened, reigning world welterweight boxing champ Tim Bradley has been going through desperate times selling himself to Team Pacquiao.
Remember how Bradley had cried out that Pacquiao was scared of him.
That was indeed a dreadful way of selling Tim Bradley, the undefeated boxer.
Knowing the old Pacquiao, the Filipino boxing superhero would have jumped up and told tipsy Tim: ?Lace on (those gloves) bum!?
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Pacquiao, renewed, has remained unmoved.
Last heard of, Bradley was obviously on the bottom of the Pacman lottery list.
It?s like this. The announcement of Pacquiao?s next foe has been rescheduled again for early next week. Now, with Bradley feeling terribly threatened by Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez, not necessarily in that order, the (cheaply) assumed world welterweight title-holder has gone begging on his knees.
?Pacquiao can choose anyone he wants to fight, but I don?t know how be can pick anyone other than me,? Bradley told Lance Pugmire of the LA Times.
?I am the champion. If he wants the belt back, he has to come through me to get it. He relinquished it to me. Regardless of what everyone might think of how I beat him, I?ve got a win on my resume over Manny Pacquiao, and it?s going to be in the history books that way.?
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Bradley was neither asking nor begging. He was already twisting other people?s arms in trying to sell his dubious worth.
Of course, he has a problem. Pacquiao didn?t have to be told it was not himself but the blind judges who relinquished the world crown to the often-retreating American.
Another thing: Pacquiao is fully aware that picking Bradley (as his next opponent) would be foul, dirty as approving of the June 9 fraud, the way the blind Nevada State Attorney General has swept the on-ring robbery of the century under the rug.
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Continued salesman Bradley: ?There had been less than a million ppv buys last June 9, but we?ll meet a number everyone will be happy with because of the controversy. People know who I am now because of the controversy, Honestly, I didn?t get crazy beat in that fight. It was competitive.?
Meanwhile, Pugmire added Bradley will report back to his Indio camp for the first time since the June 9 bout on Monday after his broken foot and twisted ankle had healed.
There was one commentary which yesterday stated Pacquiao handlers were being ?super cautious because of how bad the Pacman?s last two fights have been.?
Of course, it?s also worth noting that the last bout did drag but only after Bradley, who had called Pacquiao scared, shifted to a cheap cowering mode in the second half.
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