Saturday, May 26, 2012

Pacquiao Should Be Ready For Bradley's Headbutts

The world was able to witness how Manny Pacquiao managed to reach the peak of his boxing career. No one could barely remember the last time Pacquiao stepped out the ring defeated. He continued to knock down his opponents and defended his titles from the various challengers. 

On June 9, Pacquiao is yet to face another challenger for the his welterweight belt in the person of Timothy Bradley. A man who us known to be undefeated. A tough fighter who has been always branded as an underdog but managed to grab the title. 

No one can tell if this time Bradley could do the same to Manny Pacquiao. The latter has been warned for the head butts record of Bradley and has been advised to avoid colliding heads with Bradley's helmet shaped head.  

As for the record, he has opened cuts through headbutts on at least seven opponents – Jorge Padilla, Eli Addison, Jaime Rangel, Manuel Garnica, Nate Campbell, Carlos Abregu and Devon Alexander. He is also a right-hander and fighting a leftist like Pacquiao would most likely result to a headbutt filled fight. 

"Right now, Bradley has little name recognition outside of boxing and is mostly known by casual fans for what seems to be chronic headbutting … hopefully, this doesn’t happen against Pacquiao but it could because the Filipino typically lunges into the pocket aggressively," says Gary Andrew Poole's article in The Ring Magazine.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Bradley's Confident To Defeat Pacquiao

Timothy Bradley Jr. is set to be facing the pound for pound champ Manny Pancquiao this coming June 9 and everyone's concluding that Bradley would end up defeated. However, he's conditioning himself to upset everyone and defeat the Pacquiao instead. 

"I've been the underdog my whole life. Being the underdog don't really matter. At the end of the day, I can still win and get the victory," Bradley said. "So being the underdog, just because of what people think, really doesn’t matter to me. I’m gonna win the fight on June 9," he added. 

According to his trainer Joel Diaz, Bradley is all well prepared to face whatever's Pacquiao has to offer. Bradley might not be a knock out expert but he is going to focus on hitting the body to weaken his opponent. Bradley is not experiencing defeat yet and he would be doing everything to have one. He also stressed out that even though he and Manny are "bro's" outside the ring, inside, he there will be no "bromance" 

"All the hand-shaking will take place in the center of the ring when we start. Whatever happens in the fight, it happens. After the fight, we embrace each other like brothers," Bradley said. 

On the other hand, everyone is eyeing on Pacquiao to pull this one through again not just because renewed his faith but he is still the pound for pound king.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

HBO's Road to Pacquiao vs Bradley Debuts on May 19

The much awaited Pacquiao vs Bradley match is less than a month from now and both boxers are now training hard for their match this coming June 9 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas Nevada.


HBO, known for its pay-per-view boxing fights, will host a documentary special 24/7: Road to Pacquiao/Bradley which will debut this coming Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 10:15pm to 10:45pm ET on HBO.

The said 24/7: Road to Pacquiao/Bradley introduces boxing fans to the career and back story of undefeated Timothy Bradley Jr. (28-0, 12 KOs), who is challenging welterweight champion Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) of the Philippines in Las Vegas on June 9.