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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #26 Timothy Bradley

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

2023 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Timothy Bradley had an excellent career that saw him win 33 fights, lose just two and draw once in his 37 bouts.

Of course, there was a trilogy with Manny Pacquiao, the Fight of the Year with Russian Provodnikov, victory over the likes of Juan Manuel Marquez, Brandon Rios, Joel Casamayor, Devon Alexander, Lamont Peterson and Kendall Holt before he retired and became one of the sport's best analysts for ESPN.

He won his first world title in England, against Junior Witter, but he had always had his eyes on the Hall of Fame.

This is Bradley's own story, from growing up tough in Palm Springs, to having his heart broken in the Olympic trials and becoming a pariah for his win over Pacquiao to becoming Hall of Famer and resounding boxing good guy with universal respect.


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0:00.0

After every single fight I'm lumped up my defense is starting to fade a little bit, man

0:06.2

Something is going wrong. I was like man. I hate going in these fights because after the fight I freaking hate being sold

0:12.7

My aches and pains my body my arms my yeah, all this stuff started hurting on me and I'm just like damn this sucks getting older

0:21.4

Told my wife. I said if I can get these three things I'll retire and and she said well, what are those things?

0:26.9

I said well, I want to I got to say at four or five hearts of star hotels. I said if I can't stay if we can't stay at four or five

0:33.6

Star hotels, I was like I'm not gonna retire

0:35.8

She said done and I said well, I said I also want to be able to eat at at a fancy restaurant

0:42.5

You know, I if I want to go and spend six hundred seven hundred dollars at a restaurant eating well and no and enjoying them

0:49.4

Join my family and fruits of my heart labor. I said then I'll retire now. I said one more thing honey

0:54.1

I said I want to fly first class. I don't need a private jet. I don't need any of that

0:58.9

I just want to be able to ride first class wherever I go. I think I'm earning the right to do that

1:05.5

You know and that's when things got rough for me man things got really rough for me. I had a really dark dark dark patch in my life

1:13.2

It was a dark point in my life. I remember

1:16.0

Taking a vacation and going to Hawaii and that's when things trying to change I felt like the entire world was against me

1:22.2

Hello, and welcome to box in life stories with me

1:25.2

Kristik's happened in the ring after

1:27.8

Tasting only good with his child's play compared to that. They still have goosebumps to this day

1:34.1

Just you couldn't take the tears for his eyes or the smile for space, could you I know

1:42.6

Maybe they made me look like Al Capone. I miss you. He's gonna be your night. There's a winning and there's

1:48.4

Nothing else

1:50.4

Hello, welcome back to box in low stories with me Kristik's and this week

1:53.7

I'm joined by a newly minted Hall of Famer Timothy Bradley

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