Tim Bradley: 'I Can Beat Manny Pacquiao, No Doubt'

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Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum told FanHouse recently that WBO and WBC junior welterweight (140 pounds) champion Tim Bradley might be a good match for southpaw WBO welterweight (147 pounds) and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) titlist Manny Pacquiao as early as the fall or the first half of 2011.

"Tim Bradley is an excellent fighter, and he's a very articulate, clean-living young man. We would do a full publicity blitz on Tim Bradley to make him known to the public," said Arum, who promotes Pacquiao.

"Obviously, then, that would be our goal to build him [Bradley,]" said Arum. "To build his name recognition so that we could make a fight happen between Tim Bradley and Manny Pacquiao."

If that's the case, then the 27-year-old Bradley (27-0, 11 knockouts) believes that he will be the perfect opponent to defeat the 32-year-old Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs).

"I don't think that Manny Pacquiao has faced someone like me who has the skills and who can fight. I think that I would be perfect, man," said Bradley.

"I think that, I, myself, if I fight the perfect fight, man, I know that I can beat him," said Bradley. "If I fight the perfect fight then I can beat Manny Pacquiao, no doubt."

Bradley is contractually bound to do at least one more fight with promoter, Gary Shaw, who told FanHouse that he is seeking a summer bout, perhaps in June, opposite WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KOs) should Khan get beyond a scheduled April 16 bout in England against an opponent to be determined.

"I'm working on a fight with Amir Khan and another fight, but, you know, Amir Khan is the only one that I want to go on the record with," said Shaw. "I have spoken with [Golden Boy Promotions CEO] Richard Schaefer about Amir Khan and about a fight sometime in the summer."

 

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Source: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2011/02/04/tim-bradley-i-can-beat-manny-pacquiao-no-doubt/

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