Timothy Bradley
Timothy Ray Bradley Jr. ( born August 29, 1983 in Palm Springs, California, USA) is an American professional boxer, former world junior champion of the WBC light welter and welterweight, former WBC world champion in the light welterweight and current WBO world champion in the light welterweight.
Amateur career
Bradley began at the age of ten years with the boxes and played 140 amateur boxing in the United States, France, Germany and Tahiti. In 2001 he won the gold medal at the U.S. Under-19 Championship, and the Gold Medal of the National Police Athletic League ( PAL). In 2002, he lost in the finals of the French four - nation tournament against Xavier Noël. In 2003 he won the silver medal at the National Golden Gloves, he only lost in the final against the eventual WBC champion Andre Berto. In the same year he failed again to Andre Berto at the U.S. Championships and won bronze.
Professional career
Bradley began his career as a professional boxer in August 2004. His first big fight, he played 10 May 2008 against the British Junior Witter when he fought for the title of the WBC light welterweight. In this fight he could win the world title after a narrow 2-1 judges decision.
After a successful title defense against Edner Cherry on September 13, 2008 in Biloxi (Mississippi), Bradley denied on 4 April 2009 a title unification bout against WBO titlist Kendall Holt, and prevailed despite knockdowns in the first and last round, over twelve rounds on points. However, since he actually against certain of the WBC mandatory challenger Devon Alexander to compete would have him a little later the WBC title was stripped.
On August 1, 2009, there was the first title defense of the WBO title against Nate Campbell. Campbell retired at the beginning of the third round of a severe cut, so that the fight had to be stopped in the third round by the ringside doctor. The referee decided on a technical knockout victory for Bradley because he had an unintentional head butt, which first led to the Cutverletzung not noticed. That's why this decision was later revoked by the California State Athletic Commission and the fight will be deemed not counted.
On December 12, 2009, he won unanimously in California on points against Lamont Peterson ( 27-0 ) and had him in the third round on the ground. In July 2010, followed by a unanimous points win over unbeaten Luis Carlos also Abregu ( 29-0 ).
In January 2011, he hit this time also the unbeaten Devon Alexander ( 21-0 ) by a technical decision; in the 10th round by Alexander suffered an accidental headbutt by Bradley a Cutverletzung that led to the termination of the struggle and evaluation of the score sheet on which Bradley was ahead.
In November 2011, he defeated Joel Casamayor ( 38-5 ) by TKO in the eighth round and had him already in rounds 5 and 6 on the ground.
On 9 June 2012, he boxed in Las Vegas against the No. 1 welterweight, the Filipino Manny Pacquiao ( 54-3 ) and won by split decision after highly controversial points. In March 2013, he defended the title against Ruslan Prowodnikow unanimously (22-1 ), but against the Russians was twice stronger impact on the ground. On 12 October 2013, again won by a controversial split decision against Juan Manuel Marquez ( 55-6 ).