BEVERLY HILLS, Califorinia – Timothy Bradley is ready for anything that may come on April 9 in his third fight with Manny Pacquiao.
Regardless of what happens, he said he will move on.
Pacquiao said it’s going to be his last fight, his farewell performance, after more than 20 years in the sport, for some time being the face of boxing.
Not Bradley.
“My career goes on after this,” Bradley told Filipino scribes Monday evening at the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel along the famous Sunset Blvd.
Bradley was at the main lobby of the hotel, checking in with his team, including his father and his trainer, after travelling almost three hours from Palm Springs.
The 32-year-old American, winner and loser in his first two fights with Pacquiao, is here to promote their rubber match. From here they move to New York on Wednesday.
Bradley said the fight revolves around a lot of things, and one of them is the fact that Pacquiao has announced that he’s retiring after this fight.
“I really don’t know. But that’s the question for him. He said it’s his last fight. What does it mean to him? That’s mainly it,” said Bradley.
“But that’s the question for him because it’s his last fight not mine. It’s not my last fight – not mine,” he said.
Bradley said his new trainer, Teddy Atlas, should also provide a new twist in the third fight, plus the fact that he stopped being a vegetarian and stopped eating pork.
“I stopped eating pork and I started making money,” he said, recalling that the change, dropping his vegan diet, came four or five fights ago.
“The fact that I have a new trainer that gives a new approach to this fight. You can’t really look at the two (fights). This one will be completely different,” he said.
“I’m way more different, way more poised and wiser now. Everything is different,” Bradley added.
His new diet has made a difference in the way he moves in and out of the ring. He said he started to feel the difference, and that he’d managed to stay away from injuries.
“Everything’s fine. No pork, more money,” he said.
Then he thought about this being Pacquiao’s last fight, and felt some resistance inside of him.
“I don’t think this will be his last fight. I think it all depends on the result,” said Bradley.