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[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
When you show up to your press conference like this, you either had the best night or worst night of your life.
Depending on how your weekend went, you may or may not have known about the “big fight” that was scheduled for Saturday between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley, Jr. Boxing certainly hasn’t had the appeal in recent years that it had under the heavyweights of earlier decades (Tyson and Foreman, and Ali/Frazier before them), but in those years, Pacquiao has certainly been the biggest name, if not the biggest frame. Which is why his loss to Bradley caught many by surprise.
The decision was, well, controversial at best, with many who are familiar with boxing expecting the call to go the other way. Floyd Mayweather, Sr., who knows a thing or two, said that “This one belonged to Pacquiao. I’m calling it like it is.” The scorecards were so wrong, he said, that ”whoever these judges was [sic], they need to find a new job.”
Even their shared promoter, Bob Arum, had the fight going Pacman’s way:
Something like this is so outlandish, it’s a death knell for the sport. This is f—— nuts. I have both guys, and I’ll make a lot of money in the rematch, but it’s ridiculous. You have these old f—- who don’t know what the h— they’re looking at. It’s incompetence. Nobody who knows anything about boxing could have Bradley ahead in the fight.
I’m no boxing expert, but clearly, this one could, and maybe should, have gone the other way. But regardless of whether or not you agree with calling Timothy Bradley the best 147-pound boxer, you have to agree on one thing: Bradley is the biggest tough guy since Teddy Roosevelt. Don’t believe me? Well, according to ESPN:
Timothy Bradley suffered a fractured left foot in Saturday night’s controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao.
Bradley’s manager, Can Dunkin, also said Sunday that Bradley’s right ankle is twisted and swollen.
Bradley, who attended the post-fight news conference in a wheelchair, said he heard his left foot snap in the second round. In the fifth, he injured his right foot.
Despite the injuries, Bradley continued and went on to win a highly controversial split decision to claim the WBO welterweight title and end Pacquiao’s seven-year unbeaten run.
That’s right, Timothy Bradley won his title after twelve rounds, on an ankle that broke in the second.
Boxing fan or otherwise, that is immensely impressive. The decision may have been wrong, but you can’t fault Bradley or his will to win. Now we wait for the rematch.
Stick around this morning, as Matt and Drew will be by with the show thread to talk about jumping out of planes, among other things. Just make sure your tandem jumpers by you dinner first, fellas.
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June 11th, 2012 at 9:10 am
What does this have to do with kentucky?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:14 am
All you haters can kiss it. im a good writer with in-depth knowledge of the program. I watched the 2011-2012 kentucky basketball season!!!!
June 11th, 2012 at 9:18 am
like number 1 said…and this has what to do with Kentucky?
I’ve held off being critical of Corey but I am jumping on the bandwagon. No creativity. He just regurgitates the easiest and nearest article written by someone else. He forgets this is a KENTUCKY sports blog! Matt Jones can defend him as much as he wants but many times there is simply no excuse for his writing and his posts
June 11th, 2012 at 9:18 am
Pacquiao the biggest frame? I hope you meant fame. That first paragraph is just confusing.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Wow, Guess some folks can’t be satisfied no matter what.
I guess the ring judges must have had a few totties (or a lot) before the fight because Picquiao rocked Bradley in the earlier rounds and held his own, while Bradley had a decent later rounds, and the end of the bout was what they could remember.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Smh over this whole article……..and until Bradley takes a bullet then continues on his way there is no freaking way you can compare him to Teddy
June 11th, 2012 at 9:49 am
Manny won that fight. Point. Blank. Period.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:50 am
Can Matt fire Corey already? How many garbage posts is it going to take?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Pac-man took Bradley to pieces. Boxing is so fixed. I read somewhere that Pacquiao landed around 60 more punches than Bradley. Even Bradley thought he lost. utter bollocks.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:53 am
I didn’t think it was possible, but you’ve managed to find a sport you are less informed about than basketball. Can’t wait for tomorrow, when I’m sure we’ll be subjected to a thousand word essay on water polo, or a copy and paste from a writer you’re stealing hits from by commandeering his/her work!
June 11th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Broken foot and broken ankle are two different things. He broke his foot and twisted his ankle. People that must do much more physcially draining things have accomplished far more impressive things on sprained ankles.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:59 am
is this real life? A boxer was injured during a fight? never heard of such things, incredible.
Thank you corey for making my day and inspiring me to stand up to the world and keep fighting. you really are an inspiration. The idea that a kid with downs syndrome can write for a plagiarized website everyday at 9 in the morning makes me believe that I can do keep on in this world. Today I salute you Corey, the biggest idiot on the internet.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:59 am
I can give you some basketball significance for this fight. The fight was scheduled to start after the NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 7. It turned out that the game ended around the same time as the undercard, so there was no need for a delay. However, there was a period of about an hour after the end of the undercard where HBO broke in and reported that Pacquiao was not in his dressing room and no one knew where he was. Turned out he sat around and watched the end of the NBA game before he did any warming up or had his gloves put on! If you want to know a reason why the judges may have screwed Manny, I would say that making them sit around with their thumbs up their butts for an hour may have had something to do with it.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:06 am
I correct myself Corey. You are now the 2nd biggest idiot on the internet. 13.) has taken your spot.
trhyrth: I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:24 am
What was wrong with what I said? No one thinks Bradley deserved the decision. Most thought it was between 119-109 and 116-112 for Manny.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:38 am
#15 I don’t think 14 got your tongue in cheek sarcasm about how this relates to basketball
June 11th, 2012 at 11:05 am
#15, maybe because your statement was absolutely asinine. Millions upon millions of dollars were on the line in Vegas, and yet you think that a petty grudge by the judges was the definitive factor in the outcome. Nevermind the fact that several days ago Pac forewarned everyone involved in organizing the fight that he would not box until the Celtics game was over. Maybe, just maybe, money was the key motivation for the judges, and not having to wait a few minutes for the biggest name in the sport to enter the ring. Moron.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:05 am
Boxing isn’t fun to watch, MMA has took it spot years ago you old folks need to step up and realize
June 11th, 2012 at 11:09 am
16.) I picked up on that possibility however, i don’t believe 15.) has the brain capacity to make such a joke. Even if it was, it was the most idiotic thing of all time. It was not funny and made little sense.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:34 am
18#- right. During MMA events a fighter usually breaks a hand or foot and keeps fighting. That is pretty common. It happened Friday actually. I would rather watch MMA than boxing any day.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:49 am
Ali fought the last 9 rounds against ken Norton with a broken jaw! Norton along with Foreman was considered one of the hardest punchers of his era.
June 11th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
19. You can think I am the one with limited brain capacity if that is what helps you “can do keep on in this world”, as you say.
17. Your name is houseofstark. I’m just going to ignore you because you probably live a sad life in your parents’ basement flying your World of Warcraft dragon and pleasuring yourself to the girl gnome animations. Maybe, just maybe, (as you say,) that pathetic existence was the cause of your outburst. Of course, there’s no evidence that leads me to say this, but there isn’t any for your hypothesis either. I did not realize that the purpose of a comments section was to write a footnoted scholarly article to enlighten mutants such as yourself. I did think I could point out that one of the fighters was so engrossed in a basketball game that he kept upwards of 1 million people watching live and millions of others following the fight in the dark as to his whereabouts for roughly an hour, instead of focusing on the guy who was going to try to knock his block off later in the evening, which I think is kinda interesting. (Your point about everyone knowing he would come in late is WRONG.)
In conclusion, reading comprehension, folks. Get some. I didn’t say they screwed Pacquiao because he made everyone wait. I just said that MAY have been a reason for them to screw him. Just like all that paint you CSers sniffed MAY be the reason you like to carry on intimate relations with sheep.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I did make a typo, my apologies.
However, you are terrible at ignoring people since you just dedicated an entire rambling paragraph to houseofstark. it must be difficult to live with your superior intelligence. I am in awe at the genius of your comments. The fact that you honest to god advanced the idea that there was a connection to Pac getting screwed and basketball makes you almost as bad as Nichols himself. They had a KSTV casting call to attempt to join the crew. The comments section is not the place to advance your career in idiotic writing by people who have never put a jersey on in their life.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
UH OHH looks like we have an internet nerd fight going on here!! Post away I’m ready for some good insults on a KY Sports blog!! haha nothing gets better than this in my opinion!! (this was a use of sarcasm, just wanted to make that clear)
June 11th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
I’m pretty sure the official nerd fight handbook says we have to start comparing advanced degrees and income before the nerd fight begins.
June 11th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
haha I believe you are correct there!!
June 11th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
if you don’t think boxing is fixed then this weekend’s bout should be the final proof you need. Manny out struck Bradley by nearly 90 punches and actually landed more in 10 of the 12 rounds. Yet they gave it to Bradley…who by the way tweeted out a rematch poster picture for Nov 10th. a week and a half BEFORE Friday’s fight. It would be interesting to see how many people betted on Bradley a few hours before the fight took place. I am willing to say it was substantial amount of money.
The fix was in…Manny could have been on time or 3 days too late it didn’t matter….he wasn’t winning that fight.