Sport
Timothy Bradley beats Manny Pacquaio in stunning win
“You have six minutes to go, son,” Roach said. “It’s your fight.”
But it wasn’t Pacquiao’s fight, with Bradley getting credit for winning some of the close middle and later rounds. After the 11th round Bradley went back to his corner and trainer Joel Diaz told him he needed to win the final round.
“I listened to my corner,” Bradley said. “I got to give him a rematch now.”
Arum said there will be one on November 10, though he thought Pacquiao won easily, as did most writers at ringside.
“I’ll make a lot of money off the rematch, but this was outrageous,” Arum said.
It was the biggest fight of Bradley’s career and it came with a minimum US$5 million payday. The rematch will be even richer, though Pacquiao’s loss could damage any plans for a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Mayweather Jr., did not see the fight because he is serving a sentence on a domestic abuse charge at a jail a few miles from the MGM Grand.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
