Professional boxing Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley. Pacquiao beat Bradley

Welterweight (up to 66.7)

Former world champion in eight weight categories, Filipino Manny Pacquiao(58-6-2, 38 KO) defeated the American Timothy Bradley(33-2-1, 13 KO) in the third and final part of their trilogy, won the WBO International welterweight title and said goodbye to boxing.

The fight, which took place on Saturday in Las Vegas, ended with a unanimous decision in favor of Pacquiao.

The first half of the fight was an even fight with a small number of double-edged attacks. After the sixth round, Pacquiao's advantage became more noticeable - in the seventh and ninth three-minute rounds, Bradley was knocked down. Note that in the seventh and ninth rounds, Pacquiao sent his opponent to the floor. The result is 116-110 on the notes of all judges.

This was Manny and Timothy's third fight. The first in 2012 was won by Bradley, the second in April 2014 ended in victory for the Filipino.

After the fight, Pacquiao said he plans to retire, as he promised his family members. According to the boxer, he intends to serve people in his homeland.

Pacquiao beat Bradley and retired

Anthony Joshua (Great Britain) – Charles Martin (USA)

Heavy weight (over 90.7)

British Anthony Joshua(16-0, 16 KO) knocked out a previously unbeaten American Charles Martin(23-1-1, 21 KO) and became the new IBF world heavyweight champion.

The fight took place on Sunday night in London and ended in the second round. Joshua sent his opponent to the canvas twice, after which the referee stopped the fight.

Gilberto Ramirez (Mexico) – Arthur Abraham (Germany)

Second average weight (up to 63.5)

Unbeaten Mexican super middleweight Gilberto Ramirez(34-0, 24 KO) defeated the German Arthur Abraham(44-5, 29 KOs) and became the new WBO world champion.

The fight, which took place on the undercard of the Pacquiao-Bradley fight in Las Vegas, ended with Ramirez winning by unanimous decision - three times 120-108.

Ramirez became the first Mexican to win a championship title in this weight category.

Oscar Valdez (Mexico) – Evgeniy Gradovich (Russia)

Featherweight (up to 57.2)

Two-time Olympic champion Mexican Oscar Valdez(19-0, 17 KOs) had no problems in the fight with the former world champion Russian Evgeniy Gradovich(21-2-1, 9 KOs), winning the vacant WBO NABO North American title.

Valdez tried to avoid exchanges with his opponent, moved a lot and hit more often. In the debut of the fight, after one of Oscar’s blows, a cut opened on Evgeniy’s face. In the fourth round, Gradovich was knocked down and managed to get up, but the referee stopped the fight.

Lee Selby (Wales) – Eric Hunter (USA)

Featherweight (up to 57.2)

Welshman IBF world featherweight title holder Lee Selby(23-1, 8 KOs) made his second successful title defense, defeating the American Eric Hunter(21-4, 11 KOs).

Already in the second round, a left side kick to the head sent the champion to the floor.

Subsequently, Selby acted more cautiously, avoided exchanges and mainly attacked from a distance, interrupting his opponent. In the eighth round, Hunter was penalized for a low blow, but this did not affect the final result: 116-110, 116-110 and 115-111 in favor of Selby.

Selby defended his title

Jamie McDonnell (Great Britain) – Fernando Vargas (Mexico)

Bantamweight (up to 53.5)

British Jamie McDonnell(27-2-1, 12 KOs) defended the title of “regular” WBA world champion in the bantamweight division (up to 53.5 kg), stopping the Mexican Fernando Vargas(29-9-3, 20 KOs).

McDonnell's opponent was supposed to be the Mexican Juan Alberto Rosas (41-9, 28 KOs), but shortly before the fight they found a replacement for him.

McDonnell confidently led the fight, interrupting his opponent. In the ninth round, he knocked Vargas down and the referee stopped the fight.

McDonnell retained title

George Groves (Great Britain) – David Brophy (Great Britain)

Second average weight (up to 63.5)

British George Groves(22-3, 17 KOs) won the WBA International regional super middleweight title, outboxing his compatriot David Brophy(16-1-1, 1 KO).

The fight did not last even four full rounds: after another attack from the favorite, Brophy dropped to his knees and was saved by the referee's decision.

Groves beat Brophy

Alexander Gvozdyk (Ukraine) – Najib Mohammedi (France)

Light heavyweight (up to 79.4)

Bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics, Ukrainian Alexander Gvozdyk(10-0, 8 KOs) knocked out former world title challenger Frenchman Najib Mohammedi(37-5, 23 KOs) in a fight for the vacant NABF North American title.

In the second round, Gvozdyk shocked his opponent, and a little later he knocked him out with a perfect hit.

Let us note that against Gvozdyk Mohammedi lasted a round less than against the world champion Russian Sergey Kovalev.

Gvozdyk knocked out Mohammedi

Konstantin Ponomarev (Russia) – Brad Solomon (USA)

Welterweight (up to 66.7)

In the battle of unbeaten welterweights, the Russian Konstantin Ponomarev(30-0, 13 KOs) got the better of the American Brad Solomon(26-1, 9 KOs), defending the NABF North American title.

Ponomarev's advantage became especially noticeable after the end of the fight, but Solomon survived all 10 rounds. Moreover, one of the judges counted the American's victory 96-94. The other two saw the Russian win 98-92 and 96-94.

Ponomarev maintained a “clean” record

Jack Culcay (Germany) – Jean-Carlos Prada (Venezuela)

First middleweight (up to 69.9)

“Interim” WBA world champion in junior middleweight German Jack Culcay(22-1, 11 KOs) won an early victory over the Venezuelan Jean-Carlos Prada(31-2-1, 21 KOs).

The former amateur world champion outnumbered his opponent in all rounds and scored the winning point in the 10th three-minute mark.

On the night of April 10, 2016, the famous Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao defeated American Timothy Bradley in a fight for the WBO International title.

Pacquiao - Bradley: the fight for the WBO International title was the last in Manny Pacquiao's career

Former world champion in eight weight categories, Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao defeated American Timothy Bradley in a fight for the WBO International welterweight title. The fight, which took place on Saturday in Las Vegas, ended with a unanimous decision in favor of Pacquiao. The scores were the same - 116:110, writes R-Sport.

This was the third fight between these rivals. The first one in 2012 was won by Bradley, then in April 2014 the fight ended in victory for the Filipino. The fight with Bradley was the first intkbbee for Pacquiao after his defeat to American Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May 2015.

For the 37-year-old Pacquiao, this victory was the 58th with 6 defeats and 2 draws. 32-year-old Bradley lost the 2nd fight of his career (both with Pacquiao) with 33 wins and 1 draw.

Fight Pacquiao - Bradley 2016, online: video

Manny Pacquiao announces retirement after Bradley fight

Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao announced the suspension of his professional career after defeating American Timothy Bradley. The athlete decided to “retire,” Mir24 reports with reference to Yahoo! Sports.

“At the moment, I am retired. I'm going to go home and be with my family. I want to serve people,” the athlete noted.

The boxer has not officially announced his retirement. According to him, everything will depend on the elections to the Philippine Senate, which will be held in May this year. At the same time, the boxer did not rule out that in the future he could become the President of the Philippines.

In total, the Filipino spent 66 fights in his career, scoring 58 victories and six defeats. Two fights were reduced to a draw.

From the beginning of the fight, the Uralian went forward, and this played into the hands of the hard-hitting Mexican, whose counterattacks immediately began to reach the target.

Evgeny received a cut by the end of the first round, and a series of very tight left hooks from Valdez at the beginning of the second three-minute period completely caused serious bleeding in the Russian.

Whether this fact or the skill of his opponent’s defense led to the fact that the percentage of Gradovich’s punches became prohibitively low: during the entire second round, when he continued to attack, only eight of more than fifty “shots” hit the target.

In the third segment of the fight, Oscar dealt a choice of blows to the advancing opponent: to the left side he connected both a straight one and an equally lethal one to the body, and with the right he got direct hits.

The fourth round became a real nightmare: everything the Mexican threw flew towards the target. Several blows seriously shook the Russian, but he continued to advance, missing again and again.

It all ended after Valdez’s “two” “right side - left side”. Gradovich ended up on the floor. “It makes no sense to continue this,” HBO commentators noted in the report. The referee in the ring also agreed with them: the Russian stood up at his count of “five,” but the referee decided to stop the fight.

Valdez won the North American title and brought his record to 19 victories, 17 of which were won ahead of schedule. Gradovich suffered the second defeat in his professional career, having won only two of his last five fights (one was a draw).

Gilberto Ramirez (Mexico) - Arthur Abraham (Germany) - victory on points

The only fight for the world title at the boxing evening in Las Vegas ended in the dethronement of the champion. The aged Abraham was unable to oppose anything to the Mexican who won his 34th fight and gave away the WBO world champion belt in the up to 76.2 kg category.

Ramirez was considered the favorite not only because of his impeccable record, but mainly because he is 12 years younger than the Yerevan native, who competed in the United States several times in his career against very strong opponents.

The main question before the fight was this: will Gilberto become the first Mexican to win the world title in the up to 76.2 kg category?

It’s probably not worth describing the fight round by round, since here we can simply say that it lasted all 12 periods of 3 minutes allotted for the title fight and ended with a score of 120-108, according to the judges, in favor of the Mexican.

That is, all three referees in a confrontation in which there were no knockdowns considered that Ramirez won each of the 12 rounds.

The most striking moment was the episode in the second round, when the title contender shook Abraham with a right hook to the jaw. Commentators believed that the gong saved the champion from falling. Immediately everyone remembered how Arthur won a fight with Colombian Edison Miranda in 2006, boxing with a double jaw fracture.

The German fought courageously this time too, having good moments in each of the remaining rounds, but the Mexican did not slow down his pace of movement (mostly backwards) and, taking advantage of his significant height advantage, shot his opponent from a distance.

“Ramirez controls the fight, not giving Abraham a chance to exchange and throw some power punches,” Roy Jones commented on what was happening in the middle of the confrontation.

In the later rounds, the champion began to land some sharp jabs, but the overall number of punches thrown remained low. The power shots landed in the place where the Mexican was a millisecond ago, and now it was as if he had disappeared into thin air.

Arthur tried to hit the deuce while jumping forward, but it was also in vain: the glove whistled far from the target, and the Mexican immediately tried to carry out a counterpunch.

At the end of the fight, the champion simply did not have the strength left for any lengthy series: even after putting his opponent’s back to the ropes in one of the episodes, Abraham himself took a step back, taking a pause in the attack.

“Abraham desperately needs a knockout,” the experts declared the obvious before the final two rounds, before the last one they also cited statistics: the German had won by knockout in the 12th round three times in his career.

Shortly before the end of the last three minutes, having gone forward, Abraham missed two serious blows towards him, but still rushed into a new attack, hit - and immediately received a counter-blow.

That's where the fight ended. And you already know the result: we have a new world super middleweight champion, and for the first time this is a representative of Mexico.

Manny Pacquiao (Philippines) - Timothy Bradley (USA) - win on points

And let’s finally move on to the main fight of the evening - the third meeting of these rivals in history. The previous two, in fact, were won by Pacquiao, even though in the first confrontation the judges gave the victory to the American, for which they were mercilessly criticized.

Before the confrontation, the 37-year-old Filipino stated that it could be the last in his professional career. After all, the ex-world champion in eight weight categories has been in this business for a very long time and is quite tired of boxing, and in his homeland he is in the midst of a brilliant political career.

There was also a confrontation between coaches in this fight: Pacquiao’s long-time companion Freddie Roach and Teddy Atlas, who began working with Bradley, once again interrupting his commentary career.

“Freddy hates Teddy, Teddy hates Freddy,” Roy Jones more than clearly stated the relationship between the specialists.

Bradley was the first to enter the fight, in which one of the secondary WBO titles in the weight category up to 66.7 kg was at stake, but the fees were about $25 million, and Pacquiao came second to the roar of the audience. This fight turned out to be homely for the Filipino, who is simply adored in the USA.

The first two rounds of the meeting took place in an equal and rather cautious fight, but the third clearly remained with Timothy, who looked more coordinated, basing his tactics on counterattacks and jabs.

Feeling this, Pac-Man slightly increased the pace, which was enough to take the threads of this fight into his own hands. With two precise left straights, he put his presumptuous opponent in his place, and then added a right hook to them.

The fifth segment of the fight turned out to be very bright, in which Timothy first showed activity, but Manny responded to this with new accurate hits from the left. Then there was a battle on a collision course, more precisely in which the Filipino was.

“That’s when it all started!” — experts commented on this round. And in Bradley’s corner, Atlas threw the first tantrum.

“It looks like Pacquiao’s taste for boxing is returning when in the ring someone agrees with him to simply bludgeon each other,” HBO commentator Jim Lampley suggested.

To calm down the nervous coach Bradley a little, he added combinations in the sixth round, but Pacman was in motion.

The seventh round brought a rather controversial knockdown, which, however, played a very significant role in the fight.

At the very end of the three-minute period, the opponents began to spin in a small clinch, continuing to strike each other, and Timothy fell. Experienced referee Tony Weeks, after a moment's hesitation, began counting the knockdown: after all, Pacquiao hit, and the American's glove ended up on the floor.

The Filipino then rushed at his opponent, doing this even more in order to show that he was shocked and the knockdown was real. But then the gong sounded.

What is the importance of this moment? In an even fight, Pacquiao received a two-point advantage in one of the rounds, that is, in order to win it back, Bradley had to outbox his opponent in two rounds so that none of the three judges had any doubts.

And the American couldn’t cope with this heavy burden of thought that had fallen into his brain, and coach Teddy Atlas couldn’t help him in any way.

Bradley started a spurt in the next part of the fight; it even seemed that Manny was in a dangerous situation near the ropes, but it was a deliberate wait out of this hurricane in tight defense.

And in the ninth round, this “hurricane” again found himself knocked down - now a real one. Pacquiao met his opponent with a left, and Bradley went to the floor, even somersaulting. From that moment on, his chances of winning became completely illusory.

The second stone on the American’s shoulders was the thought that only a knockout would save him, and he switched to power strikes, noticeably reducing their already not very high number. A new exchange at the end of the tenth round was again not in his favor.

“How can this person even go somewhere when he fights so well?” - asked a rhetorical question on behalf of many Pacquiao Lampley fans.

And the Filipino in the 11th round still demonstrated amazing speed; in the number of thrown punches he was one and a half times greater than his opponent - 396 versus 273.

The final round began with a low blow from Bradley, for which he, to his credit, apologized profusely. The final battle was the last half a minute, but even here Pac-Man was more successful.

The judges' score was unanimous and convincing - Manny Pacquiao won by a score of 116-110.

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On the night from Saturday to Sunday, Moscow time, at the famous MGM Grand arena in Las Vegas, a fight took place in which the 37-year-old superstar Filipino (58-6-2, 38 KO) defeated the 32-year-old black American (58-6-2, 38 KO) on points by unanimous decision. 33-2-1, 13 KO). These rivals have previously met twice in official matches. Their first fight took place in June 2012 and ended in a very controversial victory for Bradley on points via split decision. The rematch took place in 2014, and Pacquiao celebrated a victory on points by unanimous decision, thus taking de jure revenge.

And now the old rivals have entered the ring again to once again measure their strength and finally dot the i’s in their confrontation. One of the main intrigues of the upcoming fight was whether one of the opponents would be able to knock out his counterpart. At the end of 12 dynamic

rounds it turned out that this did not happen. However, as the fight progressed, Pacquiao managed to knock down Bradley twice, something that had not happened in their two previous fights.

The opponents began the opening three-minute period with intense movements around the entire perimeter of the ring. But at the same time, the fighters threw few blows, preferring to act more in a reconnaissance manner, looking for one another’s weak points and gaps in the defense. At the same time, Bradley tried to counterattack, and Pacquiao mostly adjusted and tried on rather than hitting. The 2nd round followed a similar scenario, but at the end, Manny managed to hit his opponent’s head with his striking left hand. Bradley tried to intercept his opponent’s attacks and deliver his own counterattacks. However, the opponents still took aim and waited for a long time.

In the 3rd segment of the fight there was a lot of intense movement around the ring, but the boxers still preferred not to take risks, devoting significant time and attention to defense. At the same time, they both tried to act in a counterattacking manner. In general, the starting rounds turned out to be quite equal and difficult for the judges to calculate. But already in the 4th three-minute period Pacquiao increased his aggression and occasionally began to resemble his former self - fast, sharp, energetic and assertive. The Filipino mainly pressed his opponent, who was working purely on defense. At such moments, Bradley constantly moved out of the line of fire. And in the end, Timothy managed to hit it successfully, but he had almost no time left to develop his success.

In the 5th round, both opponents began to fight more openly, which led to an increase in the number of accurate hits on both sides. Moreover, the fighters tried to attack serially. First one had success, then the other, but it was clear that Bradley was still more afraid of the Filipino’s striking power. In the middle of the 6th three-minute period, Pacquiao missed the American’s attack, after which he immediately rushed to retaliate with a protracted series of blows. But Bradley tried to stay focused, acting with utmost care. Pacquiao, when moving around the ring, used his signature short shuttle in order to get close to his opponent, but he was not always successful in this.

The counterparts operated at very high speeds, and none of them had a tangible advantage in this component. At the end of the 7th segment of the fight, after one of Pacquiao’s explosive attacks, Bradley found himself on the floor of the ring, and referee Tony Weeks decided to open the countdown for the American, recording a knockdown. Towards the end of the 8th round, realizing that he needed to win back the points he lost in the last three minutes, Bradley carried out a very long attack, consisting of non-stop blows, and, it seemed, thereby added this segment of the fight to his asset.

At the beginning of the last minute of the 9th round, the Filipino again managed to knock his opponent onto the floor of the ring, sending him to the second knockdown of the fight. After this, Pacquiao’s advantage in points began to emerge quite clearly. In addition, as the next, 10th round showed, Bradley began to slow down and get tired, which is why Manny’s superiority in speed began to be evident. And the initiative in the battle unconditionally passed to the Filipino.

The 11th round passed in a monotonous rhythm due to the fact that the opponents again became more cautious. The jabs of both boxers almost did not reach the target, and, in general, there were few accurate hits. But such a course of the battle was beneficial to the Filipino leading on points. In the 12th three-minute period, Bradley desperately tried to catch his opponent with a blow, realizing that only an early victory could save him. But Pacquiao felt very confident, keeping control of the fight until the final bell and even spending the final seconds in a forceful attack.

This time there was no long pause between the final gong and the moment the ring announcer announced the verdict of the side judges. And indeed, the result of the battle was obvious to everyone who watched it. As a result, all three representatives of Themis authorized to issue official assessments gave the victory to Pacquiao with the same score of 116-110. Thus, Manny put a convincing end to his trilogy with Bradley. This fight also showed that all of Timothy's pre-match statements and hopes that his new trainer Teddy Atlas would be able to help him find the keys to defeating Pac-Man were groundless. There was intrigue in the fight only in the first half, and after the equator the Filipino completely took control of the fight.

It is still difficult to judge the future sports plans of both rivals. Bradley's future after this loss is still unclear. Although it is unlikely that Timothy will decide to hang up his gloves. He had no intention of doing this before the fight, and it is unlikely that his opinion will change now, even after the defeat. In addition, although Bradley has spent quite a bit of time in serious fights, he is by no means old by boxing standards. As for Pacquiao, perhaps he will indeed retire from boxing, as he previously announced and confirmed his intention in a post-fight interview. However, it is not a fact that after some time the audience will not see him again in the ring. As before, Pacquiao hopes that if Floyd Mayweather Jr. returns to boxing, the American can give him the opportunity to have a rematch with him.