adminLOS ANGELES. — Timothy Bradley knows that in the minds of many there’s a blemish on his ostensibly perfect 31-0 boxing ring record.
He’s aiming to set that right against Manny Pacquiao in April. “This fight is to clean up the uncertainty, clean up the controversy, to redeem what I didn’t get after the first fight — which is the credit for beating Manny Pacquiao,” Bradley said on Tuesday as the build-up to the April 12 bout in Las Vegas began.
There was no war of words as the two met the press in a glittering Beverly Hills Hotel ballroom, just mutual respect and a determination voiced by both fighters to set the record straight. Bradley snatched Pacquiao’s welterweight belt on June 9, 2012 via a split decision, with two judges scoring it 115-113 for the American and a third scoring it 115-113 for Pacquiao.
With the win, unheralded Bradley snapped Pacquiao’s 15-fight, seven-year winning streak, but the decision sparked outrage in the boxing-crazy Philippines and in the United States, where two senators pushed for the creation of a national boxing commission to regulate the sport. — AFP.
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