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DETROIT -- If Tim Bradley has his way, there will be a throwback, beat-down in Motown on Saturday night.
The WBO champion is planning to go old school on southpaw WBC counter part Devon Alexander when they meet for their HBO televised junior welterweight (140 pounds) title bout at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich.
Throughout his career, the 27-year-old Bradley (26-0, 11 knockouts) has idolized past fighters such as world champions, Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones, Shane Mosley, Marvin Hagler, Aaron Pryor and Sugar Ray Leonard, to name a few.
Bradley plans to pay homage to Hagler and Leonard, who scored knockouts in the third, and, 14th rounds, respectively, in classic bouts against Thomas Hearns, when Bradley enters the ring against the 23-year-old Alexander (21-0, 13 KOs) wearing similar garb as his heroes did, according to his manager, Cameron Dunkin.
"Timmy's going to be wearing an outfit that is more like a throwback to the 1980s. High socks and short shorts. And he's going to come out like some of the fighters who were his idols in the 80s instead of the long trunks down to the knees," said Dunkin. "He's going to wear his shorts the way that guys like Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler wore them. It's his way of going back to the ways of the 1980s for this fight."
Dunkin said that it appears that Bradley's complete wardrobe will be comprised of the colors light and dark blue.
"He said that he liked Marvin Hagler. I think that he says that it was the Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns fight because he feels like he's going to be more like a Hagler against Alexander, because he's short and he's got to go after him. Timmy is a historian. He watches a lot of the old tapes and he really keeps track of them and he learns from the old tapes," said Dunkin.
"He feels that the other guy is going to be throwing bombs at him, and that's the way that he sees this fight," said Dunkin. "I think that he sees it as a parallel between the Hagler-Hearns fight and the Leonard-Hearns fight. I want to see a little more Leonard, but, you know, he wants to be a little more like Hagler."
Bradley also said that he most feels that his style resembles the short, but agressive Holyfield and Pryor.
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Source: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2011/01/28/tim-bradley-to-go-old-school-on-devon-alexander/
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