I’ll just go out on a limb and say that Timothy Bradley was hitting the buffets a little too hard after his loss to Manny Pacquiao.
The once chiseled champion was asked about his next fight, versus Deigo Chaves in December, and decided that the shirtless-chubby look was fine for the interview.
I thought Bradley was handled by Pacquiao but I didn’t think it would drive him to pack on the freshman 15 like a homesick undergrad.
“My mindset is I can’t sit here and beat myself up over a loss to Manny Pacquiao,” Bradley said. “He’s one of the greatest fighters of this generation. I can look back and see what I did wrong and say, ‘I shoulda done this or I shoulda done that.’ But I know I’m a world-class fighter.
“I went 24 rounds with Manny Pacquiao, and he never really hurt me. I took Ruslan Provodnikov’s best shots [in a decision win], I took Manny Pacquiao’s best shots, and I took [Juan Manuel] Marquez’s best shots and beat him, too. I know I can take Diego Chaves’ best shots. I know I can hang with the best of them.”
He has 2 months until his fight on December 13th and I’d expect him to be back to his usual cut physique by then.
