The Official Juan Manuel Marquez-Timothy Bradley & Undercards RBR & Discussion Thread

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good fight I'm not riding with anyone just wanna see a great fight


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Anyone know the background tune playing at 4:55 onwards?

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Bradley's damaged goods. He always had more will than skill to me, and he's running high on concussions as a result. Marquez will beat him, whether he uses PEDs or not. Pacquiao felt more power from Marquez in their last fight than he ever did in their previous three. I believe Marquez juiced for that fight, and may juice for this one, especially with the sketchy testing. That being said, he is more skilled and accurate than Bradley, and no juice can create those attributes. The juice will make him stronger though, which is dangerous. Bradley pitty-pats and rarely sits down on his punches, especially when he's hurt. He has so much pride that if Marquez hurts him, he will continue to pitty-pat, instead of grab and hold. This will allow Marquez to do what he does best; counterpunch! Bradley will fall. Hopefully, he won't get hurt too badly, but he will get hurt.

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Timothy Bradley, undisupted champ? Please!!

Pacquiao is the only real champion Bradley ever fought, and the decision of that fight was questionable. Pacquiao lost because he didn't destroy Bradley as he did other fighters. He didn't even seem to try at times during that fight. He said something about cramps in his calves, I think. Bradley said he had a broken foot, and a twisted ankle, yet fought on to win. I give Bradley credit for heart, and living a seemingly clean, honest life. I just don't think he should go down in history as anything more than a pretty good fighter though. He said, "Ain't no 40 year old going to beat me." Technically, he should be right, since he's ten years Marquez's junior. But if Marquez beats him (and I think he will!), Bradley should seriously consider retiring. The respect he so richly covets will be more elusive than ever.

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Pacquiao is the only real champion Bradley ever fought, and the decision of that fight was questionable. Pacquiao lost because he didn't destroy Bradley as he did other fighters. He didn't even seem to try at times during that fight. He said something about cramps in his calves, I think. Bradley said he had a broken foot, and a twisted ankle, yet fought on to win. I give Bradley credit for heart, and living a seemingly clean, honest life. I just don't think he should go down in history as anything more than a pretty good fighter though. He said, "Ain't no 40 year old going to beat me." Technically, he should be right, since he's ten years Marquez's junior. But if Marquez beats him (and I think he will!), Bradley should seriously consider retiring. The respect he so richly covets will be more elusive than ever.

So how did Tim unify both the WBO and WBC belts at jr welterweight? Abregu and Alexander's only career losses came to the hands of Bradley. Tim won the fight because it was his first ever PPV headline, he was moving up in weight, and he was fighting the p4p#1 guy who had be pulverizing everyone before Tim, yet he couldn't even draw blood from Bradley or drop him. Poor little average Tim was still able to outbox Pac for the last 3 or 4 rounds on two bum ankles.

Tim doesn't take a lot of damage in fights, that's the only time he has taken punches like that. In the Holt fight, he got caught by two solid punches period, he came back to destroy Holt. Bradley will be shredded and much faster than Marquez.

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Marquez ready to snatch that title. I hope Timmy B fully recovered from that Provo fight cuz if he hasn't it is going to show in a BIG way against Marquez.


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Stylistically this is a tough fight for Marquez if Bradley sticks to his boxing. Marquez has trouble with guys who are slick and don't give him too much openings for his counterpunching. Which is why he had so much trouble with guys like Norwood and Mayweather and to a lesser extent guys like Casamayor and John gave him trouble by not being too aggressive as well. This is the type of fight I expect Bradley to fight.

But if Bradley is ****** enough to fight the way he fought against Provodnikov, Marquez will pick him apart.

I expect this fight to be quite close on the scorecards but I think it's hard to ignore that Marquez, even though he knocked Pacquiao out in his last fight, has been showing his age in recent years, this might be quite a big factor down the stretch so I'm picking Bradley by close decision.

[redmyth79]

Marquez knocks Bradley out. Initially I thought Bradley had a good chance but I don't think Bradley is the same anymore.

I have to agree with you about Bradley not being the same. I would have favored him to win vs Marquez a while back but he didn't even fight Pac well and got a Robbery decision. I don't know that Marquez can knock that big head out, reminds me of Holyfield!! But I do think he can out counter him and hurt him as well. But the same goes for Bradley, he can hurt Marquez with his head, not his hands.

Marquez M/D

[Rome-By-Ko]

Speed will be a big factor in this fight..

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im a big fan of JMM but dont see him winning this fight. i do think hes going to land the harder more accurate shots but i think bradley is going to pressure him throughout the fight and land far more total punches. bradley by decision