Timothy Bradley to face Marcos Maidana on June 19
by Brickhaus on Apr 8, 2010 1:56 PM EDT
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According to Rick Reeno at Boxingscene, all parties involved have agreed to a bout between Timothy Bradley and Marcos Maidana. Bradley would be defending his junior welterweight title, while Maidana will likely need to give up his interim title (and his mandatory status at Amir Khan) for the shot. The fight will be on June 19 on HBO.
Initially, Bradley was to make his HBO debut at welterweight against stablemate Luis Carlos Abregu. Hats off to Bradley's team for making this fight, as it's a much more intriguing and significant bout. Bradley is currently ranked the #1 junior welterweight by The Ring and Bad Left Hook, while Maidana is ranked as the #4 junior welterweight in the world. This will be the fifth time in six fights that Bradley has faced a top 10 welterweight, and nearly all of those defenses have come against dangerous opponents with little name recognition.
This fight should be quite the test for both Bradley and Maidana. This will be the first time in his career that Bradley is facing an elite puncher. In his unification bout with Kendall Holt, Bradley was knocked down twice, and it's sure that his chin will be tested once again. However, it appears that he has made strides with his defense since that fight, and he'll have to put his skills to additional good use.
Say what you will about Maidana, but the man can punch. Out of 29 fights, he's won 27 by knockout, including his recent knockout of Victor Cayo by a brutal solar plexus shot. While there will be a great speed disparity in this fight, there will be almost as much of a power disparity, and Maidana can box enough to keep from just being flat outboxed.
Hats off to both men for taking on this kind of challenge and making what looks on paper to be a fight of the year candidate.
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Wow, just wow
Guess HBO has earned some more subscription time from me with curb your enthusiasm possibly returning in June.
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I will most definitely be staying up for this one!
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
Huge props to Bradley
For taking on all comers. This one, I think he regrets, though— Maidana by vicious stoppage in 8.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Apr 8, 2010 2:33 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
This is how I see it also.
Now, Tweek, boxing is a Man sport. There is nothing in the world more Man than boxing. It is Man at his most Man. So when you spar with Ned here, just dig deep into that most Man part of you. (Uncle Jimbo, South Park: Tweek vs Craig)
Head says Bradley, heart says Maidana. I’m a sucker for big punchers and body punchers, and the body shot he put Cayo down with was beautiful.
by Verklemptomaniac on Apr 8, 2010 2:42 PM EDT reply actions
I've got Bradley by a lopsided, yet exciting, decision win
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
Obviously,
the Maidana camp wasn’t listening to me. No more free advice is forthcoming.
Maybe, because they are actually in the boxing business, they know something I don’t.
I still think that this might be a timing error, but I’ll sure be watching. …
you have to give him major respect
He’s really a bright spot in the sport right now, and one of my favorite fighters.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Apr 8, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed.
I like the fact Bradley will fight ANYONE.
If Vitali fancied fight to rival Oscar/Pac (or at least the way it was viewed at the time of announcement) then he could do worse than give Bradley a call….
Bradley by SD in that one… ;)
Now, Tweek, boxing is a Man sport. There is nothing in the world more Man than boxing. It is Man at his most Man. So when you spar with Ned here, just dig deep into that most Man part of you. (Uncle Jimbo, South Park: Tweek vs Craig)
Both Bradley and Maidana are two of my favorites right now. Bradley going up to 147 to mess with the limited but powerful Abregu was gutsy, too, but this is just more significant.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Hasn’t been mentioned yet: This fight will go head-to-head with the Andre Ward-Allan Green Super Six fight on Showtime.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
I hate to say it, but this is the better fight
We might need to tag team on that one.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
This is the far better fight. If it comes down to it, I’m skipping the Super Six that night. I hate to do it, but at the end of the day it’s just Allan Green.
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Dammit
I hate that they keep doing this…but HBO clearly wins here. I’m rapidly becoming quite the Maidana fanboy, so no way I miss this one.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Apr 8, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
O/T, but something interesting
Evidently David Haye did a TV interview and said that John Ruiz suffered a broken jaw and a busted eardrum in their fight.
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Thankfully,
his press release writing hand escaped uninjured.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Apr 8, 2010 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Is that true? Any links on that? The shots he took just before the towlell came in were very hard ones and could have done some damage.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Apr 8, 2010 4:08 PM EDT reply actions
After these two are done
Devon Alexander will be waiting. Fights between these guys could mirror the Barrera, Morales, Pac fights of the last decade.
I wish we could do something like the Super Six for 140. I don’t mean to use the same exact format, but some sort of event where we get a combination of the top guys in the division in the ring together.
It’s pretty much what HBO is doing. They already did Alexander-Urango and Maidana-Cayo, now they have Khan-Paulie, Campbell-Ortiz and Bradley-Maidana on the horizon.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
It does, but I take what I can get when it comes to great matchmaking.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
pretty ballsy giving up the mandatory against glassjaw to take on The Man. really glad that HBO embraced Maidana rather than shun him when he massacred one of their “rising stars”
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by battle axe of doom on Apr 8, 2010 9:14 PM EDT reply actions
It helps that Golden Boy went “Well I guess we should promote this guy.”
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he’s a GBP fighter? awesome
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by battle axe of doom on Apr 8, 2010 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Golden Boy / Universum
Which is just a really strange combination, especially considering he’s from Argentina.
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Good to see Bradley coming to his senses. Him going to 147 for a meaningless fight when there were still great fights at 140 was pretty damn stupid. I’m taking Maidana in a shoot out. His power will be the difference
If a man ain't found something worth dying for. He ain't fit to live.
Him going to 147 for a meaningless fight when there were still great fights at 140 was pretty damn stupid.
The problem was, I think, that the other meaningful guys at 140 were either busy or wouldn’t fight him. Maidana solves that. Fighting Abregu got him in the door at HBO in a pretty winnable fight where he’d look good, since Abregu has bad defense and is slow. It was still a slightly risky fight since Abregu can bang, but yeah — this is way more useful a fight in every way, and a better fight in every way.
Bad Left Hook
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The reason i think it was a stupid move was cuz it was a bad fight for him. Not that Abregu is great. It’s just Bradley is a small 140 pounder to begin with. Despite his speed and quickness he’s not that hard to hit. I have doubts about him being able to take Abregu power shots. Especially since I don’t see him hurting Abregu. Bradley losing in his HBO debut will not be a good thing. Despite him still holding his 140 title.
If a man ain't found something worth dying for. He ain't fit to live.
by Violent Demise on Apr 8, 2010 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
well they wanted bradley to fight these guys on HBO, and win/lose they will have The Man at 140 on their network. bradley will bounce back from this future-loss
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by battle axe of doom on Apr 8, 2010 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
The reason i think it was a stupid move was cuz it was a bad fight for him. Not that Abregu is great. It’s just Bradley is a small 140 pounder to begin with.
Well, amen. I agree with all of that. I’m really, really not looking forward to the backlash that comes when Bradley eventually does lose a fight. Guys that fight like him lose, and so do guys with his balls when it comes to fighting other top fighters. It’s going to happen. It might happen in June, it might happen against Devon Alexander, it might happen later on down the line.
I thought Abregu was a bit dangerous, but I thought he’d win in the end because he’d just batter Abregu, perhaps into submission. Abregu’s leaky D and slowness gave me pause in his case. But fighting Maidana is better all around. Maidana now has the HBO hype train, so even if Timmy lost (and it’d be a great fight if he lost, I’m guessing), I don’t know how much it would hurt him. He’d probably just want a rematch right away, which Maidana would probably give him.
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by Scott Christ on Apr 8, 2010 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
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