UNBEATEN BUT NOT TRULY UNDEFEATED
By Recah Trinidad
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 27 Mar 2014
THERE?S one request here directed to Top Rank Promotions: Next time they let Tim Bradley and Manny Pacquiao do the selling on television, the ring rivals should be made to work separately.
The reason is not simple. In their last televised confrontasi in California, Bradley, trying to project competence and nobility, ended up selling himself short.
He instead exposed an inner lameness.
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Bradley fumbled in that televised face- off after Pacquiao calmly smiled off the taunts and insults.
Despite his cheap hysterics though, Bradley remains a top bout seller, maybe a couple of notches better than Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Didn?t the unbeaten WBO welterweight title holder try to sell tickets to a rematch way,way ahead during the press con for his encounter with Manny Pacquiao?
He has not yet resorted to something as incredulous, but his sizzling sales pitch for the rematch with Pacquiao is sure to help break gate and ppv records.
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Bradley has been declaring to the whole world that the old Pacquiao is no longer there.
No more fierceness and intensity, and the killer instinct is totally gone.
In fairness to the 30-year-old Bradley, he has not yet assumed a false label like, say, call himself Bomber Bradley.
He should be commended for this because, in the first place, he?s more known as a push puncher, with one of the lowest KO percentages on the exacting prizefight stage.
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Bradley has minced no words in trumpeting he?s a lot smarter than Pacquiao.
He also swore Pacquiao can?t expect to win come April 12 if the Filipino superhero can?t knock him out.
Of course, all Pacquiao needs this time out is ride the ring a hundred percent--and take it from there.
There?s no urgency for a severe stoppage. Because of the fact that Bradley had had to spend the first six rounds of the first fight running--and survived only after Pacquiao visibly ran out of wind.
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Meanwhile, the boxing world continues to reject the official result of Pacquiao-Bradley 1.
Maybe it would?ve been more palatable if they had maintained that Bradley did get declared official winner, but the honest fact remains that Pacquiao did not lose.
Another odd thing: Bradley continues to flaunt the fact he?s been unbeaten; although that should not be made to mean he?s truly undefeated.
Bradley has, in fact, been sobbing the cries of the rejected, one who had been seen and ruled by a critical boxing world as the certified loser in that first fight with Pacquiao.
All told, we have here sobs and tears that could yet create a sell-out.
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