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 male announcer:
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- Hello, I'm Jim Lampley.
Coming up April 9,
Tim Bradley and Manny Pacquiao
will get into the ring
for a third time
live on HBO Pay-Per-View
from Las Vegas.
To help get you ready for that,
we're gonna take a look back now
at Tim Bradley's last
appearance in the ring
last November against
veteran Brandon Rios.
The buildup to the fight was
dominated by a single story:
after having spent his entire
boxing career--
amateur and professional--
with trainer Joel Diaz,
Bradley abruptly
sidetracked Diaz in favor
of ESPN expert commentator
Teddy Atlas,
one of the most recognizable
figures in the sport,
so fans and ringsiders
wanted to see
what Atlas could bring
to Bradley's game.
That was the big story
as he got ready to fight Rios.
Let's go back to last November
to see how I called it
 with Max Kellerman
 and Roy Jones.
- All right.
Okay.
Okay, gentlemen, you both
received your instructions
in your dressing room.
Okay.
Right here is good.
Anything below that's low.
Right here is good.
Anything below that's low.
I want a good, clean fight.
Obey my commands at all times.
Above all, protect yourselves
at all times.
Let's go.
 Kellerman: You're looking
 at two fighters
 who have essentially willed
 themselves to this position
 in the sport.
 Robert Garcia wants
 Bam Bam Rios
 to do what he's always done.
 Teddy Atlas wants Tim Bradley
 now to skill himself
 past Rios.
 Lampley: Roy,
 does Tim Bradley have a mouse
 under his left eye?
 Jones: It looks like it, Jim.
 Lampley: Could that
 be meaningful
 as the fight progresses?
 Jones: If Brandon can connect
 with it to make it swell up,
 yes, it can.
 Lampley: You mean
 if Rios can connect?
 Jones: I mean Rios, yes.
 Lampley: Round 1 begins.
 Bradley focusing on his jab
as he lands the first few shots
 in the fight.
We asked Teddy Atlas what would
 be the signs he would look for
 in the first
 two or three rounds to see
 whether Bradley
 was doing the things
 that he wanted him to do,
 and he focused on footwork.
 He said,
 "Is he getting to the spots
 "that he wants to get to
 before Rios can get there?
 "Is he anticipating
 where Rios will go
"and beating him to that place?
 "Is he fighting him where
 he wants to fight him?
 "Those are the questions
 that I will have in my mind
 as I watch him for the first
 two or three rounds."
 Kellerman: And is seven weeks
 enough in terms
 of Bradley's muscle memory
 to do new things
 under the crucible
 of the action in the ring?
 Jones: Well, he's doing a good
 thing with his jab already.
 That seems good.
 Lampley: I think I already see
 more foot movement.
 Much less standing in front
 of Rios and more
moving around him, stepping in,
 stepping out,
 creating angles
 for his punches.
 Jones: Yes, I see
 the same thing, Jim,
 but this is what you have
 to wonder about that:
 would the foot movement take
 too much energy away from him
 to have stuff to war with
in the end if it becomes a war?
 Lampley: As Rios will want it
 to be.
 Kellerman: So far, what's got
 to be encouraging for Bradley
 is that he's doing
 what he wants to do.
 He's dictating at--on what
terms the fight is being fought
 when the action takes place,
 and he's not sticking around
 too long to get countered
 after he gets his shots off.
 Lampley:
 And by doing so,
 he's limiting
 Rios' punch-out hits
 to flurries instead
 of the steady stream
that Brandon Rios much prefers.
 Jones: But right now, you see
 him sitting there fighting,
 Jim, 'cause you knew it was
 gonna come to this.
 As soon as he's tasted
 enough leather,
 he was gonna start fighting
 back,
 so I think shortly here,
 we're gonna have us
 a phone booth battle.
 Lampley: We already do.
 Kellerman:
 Well, I think Bradley
 feels comfortable in there
 right now
 and doesn't feel
 that he's in danger.
 We'll see if he's right.
Lampley: Bradley landed several
 body shots in there.
 Rios got in a couple shots
 upstairs,
 and now they go back to work
 in the center of the ring.
 Here's the footwork again.
 Jones: Oh, good body shot
 by Bradley.
 Kellerman:
 Really good body shot.
 Jones: That hurt Rios.
 Kellerman: I agree.
 Jones: That hurt Rios,
 and Bradley knows it.
 Lampley: Momentarily,
 Rios stood still
 after the hard body shot
 by Tim Bradley.
 Kellerman: One of the things
 that Teddy talked to Bradley
 about is the fact that Rios
 has a way of taking punches
 that encourages you to enter
 his style of fight...
 And that's one of the things
 that makes Rios successful.
 Lampley: Seconds to go
 in round 1.
 Hard right hand by Bradley.
 Big left hook upstairs.
 Round 1 dominated
 by Tim Bradley,
 who set the pace and fought
 the way he wanted to fight.
 Kellerman: Beautiful boxing.
 Jones: Very beautiful.
- [speaking Spanish]
- Good first round.
Good, now listen to me,
everything we expected,
but I don't want you
to get greedy.
Sometimes you--I don't need
four punches inside.
I need two or three
and then off to the side.
If you're gonna throw more
than two or three,
I want it thrown on the side,
not in front of him!
- Okay.
- Now, when you're
in front of him,
get your head on good position,
good defensive position.
Where's the water?
I want good defensive position,
and when you're on the side,
you can clip him inside
and then go around him,
travel around him.
- [speaking Spanish]
- Right-hand shot.
Throw the right-hand shot.
Just drop it in there,
all right?
Okay? Okay.
All right, breathe.
How do you feel? Good?
Good, good.
Already felt power or no?
Good.
That's it.
Good on the inside.
- He wants to move you.
- Okay.
- Go, go, go.
 Lampley: CompuBox numbers
 in round 1 quite one-sided:
 Bradley 34 out of 71.
 Rios only 7 landed punches
 out of 40 thrown.
 Isn't it interesting
 that Brandon Rios,
 who was born
 in Lubbock, Texas,
 lived much of his life
 in Garden City, Kansas,
 has lived for the last
 several years in California,
 Robert Garcia
 speaks Spanish to him
 when he wants to get
 a point across?
 Jones: And you don't expect--
 from the counterpunch,
 you don't expect Rios
 to do a lot of connecting
and winning early in the fight.
 He's a late-fight fighter.
 He's a guy
 who wants to come on.
 He's a slow starter somewhat,
 but, like--
 that's a good hook by him
 right there,
 but the later the fight goes,
 the better he usually gets.
Lampley: Bradley jab, jab, jab.
 Rios misses with a left hook.
 Good hook to the body by Rios.
- Don't hold him. Hands free.
Hands free.
Don't hold him.
Hands free.
Stop, stop, stop.
Let him up.
Let him up.
Watch your head.
 Lampley: Referee Tony Weeks,
 extremely prominent here
 in Las Vegas in recent years.
 Right hand over the top
 by Bradley
 draws oohs and aahs
 from the crowd.
 Another right hand by Bradley.
 Jones: Bradley's trying
 to box smartly.
 Lampley: Well,
 one of the reasons I asked
 whether Brandon Rios has
 the punching power to thrive
 in the welterweight division,
 Max,
 is that he has
 no head movement,
 and Bradley is able to hit him
 pretty easily with head shots.
 Kellerman: Yeah,
 but he's not a--
 he's a light heavyweight
 tonight, Brandon Rios,
 so he does not have power in
the light heavyweight division,
 but fortunately for him,
 he's fighting at welterweight.
 Jones: Good uppercut
 by Bradley inside.
 Oh, good shot to the head.
 Lampley:
 Hard right hand by Rios
 as Bradley stepped away
 with his hands down.
Kellerman: And--and looked like
 he felt that shot,
 felt the effects
 of those shot,
 got wobbled a little.
 Jones: Of course.
 He's 15 pounds lighter.
- Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Let him up.
 Kellerman: There was a subtle
 shift in this round
 even before Bradley got caught
 with that shot.
 Rios was able
 to start pressuring him
 and start dictating
 the terms of the fight
 even as Bradley
 was outboxing him.
 That did not happen
 in the first round.
 Lampley: 100%.
 Rios made clear in the first
 20 seconds of this round
 that it wasn't gonna be
 like round 1.
 He was gonna throw
 regardless of the consequence.
 Jones: And now Bradley's right
 where he doesn't want to be,
 which is right in there
 with Rios
 because this is Rios' fight.
 Kellerman: Yep, Teddy said
 he doesn't mind him in there
 for two or three shots...
 Lampley: Low blow by Rios.
 It was on the opposite side
 from Weeks.
 He didn't see it.
 Kellerman: But doesn't want
 Tim getting greedy
staying in there too long so he
 can be countered or caught.
 Jones: This is the fight
 that Brandon definitely wants.
Lampley: Another hard body shot
 by Rios right on the beltline.
- Stop, stop.
Let him up.
Let him up.
 Lampley: So he's landed
 a left hook low
 and a left hook
 at the beltline.
 Two solid body shots
 in the last 30 seconds
 by Brandon Rios.
[bell dinging]
- Time!
 Lampley: Round 2 is different
 from round 1.
 [hip-hop music]
 man: ♪ Here we go now ♪
 ♪ Everybody jump, jump ♪
 ♪ Jump, jump, jump,
 jump, jump ♪
 ♪ Everybody jump, jump ♪
 ♪ Jump, jump, jump,
 jump, jump ♪
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- Okay?
[speaking Spanish]
- Remember that punch
that I asked you for.
Remember that.
Don't forget that.
Don't forget it.
- Okay?
Jones: Here you see Tim Bradley
 on the inside
 land a good little chopping
 overhand right,
 probably the best right hand
 he's landed so far,
 landed high on the head
 of Brandon Rios, though.
 Lampley: CompuBox numbers
 in round 2:
 CompuBox found Bradley landing
 28 out of 48
 and Rios 12 out of 61,
but throwing 61 to Bradley's 48
 changed the momentum
 of the fight for Brandon Rios.
 Sometimes it's what you land.
 Sometimes it's what you throw.
Kellerman: He--Bradley came out
 in the first round
 and then again in this round
 looking like he was the boss,
 like he was dictating,
 and in the second round, it--
 he did not have that same
 kind of intensity
 to start the round.
 The question is, coming out
 with that intensity,
 can Bradley sustain that
 and control Rios?
- Hands free, hands free.
Don't hold him, Bradley.
Don't hold him, Bradley.
Hands free.
Hey.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Stop, stop.
 Lampley: Tony Weeks
 telling Bradley not to hold.
 Jones:
 He's not gonna discourage
 the situation here, Jim.
 You want to box, box, box,
 but the more you try to box,
 this guy's close
 to walking you down,
so you feel like you giving him
 somewhat of an advantage,
 and that's what's gonna cause
 Tim Bradley to have
 to stay down and fight
 a little bit more, because
 he feels like he's gonna use
 all of his gas just trying
 to box,
 and it's gonna be to no avail,
 because Brandon
 doesn't care that you box.
 He's just gonna keep coming.
 Kellerman:
 And--and that's what--
 when Teddy describes what he
 wants Tim Bradley to do,
the style of boxing, it reminds
 me of some middleweights
 in the '60s,
 Georgie Benton and others,
 who--they weren't all
 big knockout punchers,
 but--and they were
 responsible defensively,
 but they put on good fights,
 professional fighting.
 Lampley: Rubin Carter.
 Joey Giardello.
 Kellerman: He was aggressive.
 Giardello was more of a boxer.
 Yeah.
 Jones: Good right hand
 by Bradley.
 Lampley: Oh, hard body shot
 by Bradley
and Rios momentarily bent over.
Jones: No, that was a low blow,
 Jim.
 Lampley: Low blow.
 Jones: Yeah, that was
 a low blow.
- Good?
Okay.
 Lampley: And Rios managed
 to get Tony Weeks' attention
 on the low blow,
 ironic because Rios got away
 with a couple of good ones
 in the second round.
 Jones: Yep, but Weeks
 saw that one.
 That one was right in front
 of him.
 Lampley: Yep.
 Jones: See, Brandon's smart;
 he's making Tim work
 very hard
 to get him out of what the--
what the coach wants him to do.
 The coach wants him to throw
 one or two and leave,
 but Brandon knows,
"If I keep the pressure on him,
 "he can't throw one or two
 and leave.
 He got to stay here
 and fight me back."
 Lampley: Well,
 when Brandon Rios is on,
 you are going to be
 in a high-intensity fight.
 There's no way you're gonna
 be able to ward it off.
 Jones: And that's what
 he's doing right now,
and that's what's gonna make it
 very difficult
 and make it hard for Tim
 to do exactly what Teddy wants
 all night long.
 Kellerman: Especially because
 he has to think
 before he does it, because
 he's not used to doing it.
 Jones:
 That's exactly right, Max.
 Lampley: Both of them
 are digging hard,
 venomous body shots
 into each other's bellies.
[loud tapping]
 Good right hand across the top
 by Bradley
 and he steps away.
[bell dinging]
- Time!
- All right, every round,
Three minutes.
Three minutes at a time.
All right?
- Yep.
- I want that concentration
high every round.
Every round!
- That's what I'm doing.
- You dropped your right hand
a little bit.
I do not want you throwing
left hooks in front of him.
On the side,
not in front of him.
- Okay.
- I don't want to give him
space for shots.
- Okay.
- Do not be leading
with left hooks in front.
Now, listen.
- You're throwing it
very slow.
You got to be fast.
Big, fast, hard.
- Fast.
Time his jab.
So he's got to be inside, okay?
- The jab and uppercut.
Okay, son?
You good? Okay.
Let's go.
You can do it, Brandon.
You can do it.
- He's playing the part
we want, anyways.
So let's go, Brandon.
[whistles trills]
Okay?
[speaking Spanish]
All right?
 Lampley: Round 4
 of a scheduled 12
 between Timothy Bradley--
 Desert Storm right there
 listening to Teddy Atlas'
 final instruction--
 and Brandon Rios.
 Harold, how do you have it
 through three?
 Lederman: Okay, Jim,
 I got it two rounds to one,
 29-28, Timothy Bradley.
 You know, Jim, in round 1,
 I thought he clearly
outworked him, he outboxed him,
 landed nice left jabs
 and he landed
 some good roundhouse shots.
 I'm talking about Tim Bradley.
 In round 2, I thought
 Brandon Rios came back
 and did really well.
 He landed
 some really hard shots
and started to fight his fight,
 but in round 3, Bradley seemed
to take it away from him again.
 He outworked him
 just like he's doing now.
 Threw more punches,
 outworked him,
 good defense, you know,
 he kept moving.
 2-1, Tim Bradley.
 Kellerman: Bradley may be well
 served to go back to the body
 with that right hand,
 Roy, because that has been
 the most damaging punch
 in the fight so far.
 Jones: Yes, it has,
 and he missed--
 he missed Brandon
 with an overhand right
 just a little while ago
 that would've been really,
 really bad
 if he'd have caught it,
 'cause Brandon wasn't ready
 for it.
- Don't hold him, man.
Don't hold him.
 Lampley: Max Kellerman,
 you made the point
 before the fight
 that Timothy Bradley
 might be vulnerable tonight
 in his first appearance
 with Teddy Atlas,
 and as this transition
takes hold but has not had time
 to really settle in
 in his career,
 is part of the problem
 that Bradley will fight
 to please the trainer
 and forget about
 beating Brandon Rios?
 Kellerman: Well, I think
 that's one of the reasons
 this pairing with Teddy could
 be great for Tim Bradley,
 great for both of them,
 because Tim will actually
 employ what he trains to do.
But has there been enough times
 for it to, as you said,
 sink in for it
 to become muscle memory?
 He will try to do
 the right thing,
 but that requires
 extra thinking,
 and that can also wear
 a fighter out physically,
 the mental energy
 that that takes.
- Hands free.
Hands free.
 Jones: Not only that,
 the pressure of Brandon Rios
 constantly bearing down
 on you for 12 rounds.
 Good body shot by Bradley.
 Kellerman: Right,
Rios is an especially dangerous
 fighter considering
 those circumstances.
 Lampley: Bradley has
 the quicker hands, though.
 He's throwing more punches
 than Rios
 and he's landing
 at an exceptionally high rate.
 Jones: But this is what
 Brandon wants, Jim.
 He wants him to wear himself
 down as much as he can
 so that in the later rounds,
 he can be more equipped
 to get him out of there.
 He wants to wear Bradley down
 as much as he can
 in these early rounds.
 Lampley: And he doesn't care
 how many times
 Bradley hits him.
 He'd be insulted if he didn't,
 right?
 Jones: As long as it
 doesn't knock him out,
 he's fine with it.
 But Bradley's doing
 some smart things
 and going to the body hard.
 Kellerman:
 Bradley should stay with
 that right hand to the body.
 That's been his best punch
 in terms of inflicting damage.
 Jones: Oh, good shot
 by Bradley.
 Kellerman: And stepped around
 to throw it.
 Jones: Perfect,
 just like Teddy told him.
[loud tapping]
- I got you.
I got you.
Let him up.
I got you.
Let him go.
 Kellerman: That was
 judicious use of a clench.
 Hadn't been too many of them,
 but that was a smart time
 to do it.
[bell dinging]
- Time!
 Lampley: And here's a look at
 Teddy Atlas' daughter, Nicole.
 She's an attorney.
 He's obviously extremely proud
 of her,
 and he also trusts her advice
 and her counsel
 and her awareness of him
 and his life,
 and when he was considering
 the possibility
 of coming to work
 for Timothy Bradley
 and he had said
 to his family members,
 "I'm not gonna train anymore;
 I'm finished with it,"
 Nicole was the one
 who said to him,
 "Dad, you're a teacher.
 "Teaching is what you do.
"This is an opportunity for you
 to teach somebody
 "who will be a great
 and willing student.
 You should do it."
 Teddy said that was
 the turning point
 in causing him
 to take this chance.
Kellerman: And what Teddy Jr.--
 the fella sitting next to her
 just there you saw on
 the screen, that's Teddy son--
 gave him very similar advice.
- All right?
Around him.
Okay?
Deep breath.
Deep breath.
 Lampley: CompuBox numbers
 in the fourth round:
 Bradley with
 a tremendous round:
 33 out of 87,
 Rios 14 out of 62.
 Bradley with a 27-to-13
 advantage in power punches.
 The numbers
 are going to weigh
 in Bradley's favor
 for the first several rounds.
 That's just the way it is,
 but Rios,
 as Roy Jones told you
 in the last round,
 doesn't care how much
 he's gonna get hit.
 His job is to stay
 in the fight,
 try to wear Bradley down,
 and come on to overtake him
 in the late rounds.
 Kellerman: The odds for
 this fight were pretty wide
 for Tim Bradley
 considering--
 I understand them--
 considering both of their
 careers to date
 but especially considering
 how badly Bradley looked hurt
 by that Jessie Vargas
 punch--
 Jessie Vargas
 not a big puncher--
 at the end of his last fight.
 Rios a better puncher
 than Vargas
 and a much more relentless
 fighter.
 Jones: But he doesn't stay set
 as often as Vargas does.
 Lampley: If Brandon Rios
 could've stayed at lightweight
 for his entire career,
 I think he might have become
 the best lightweight fighter
 in the world.
 At welterweight, it's a much
 more difficult proposition.
 Kellerman: Big right hand,
 and Rios winks at Bradley
 after taking it.
 Jones: I think that's saying
 a lot, Jim,
 saying the best lightweight
 in the world.
 He might've been the toughest
 lightweight in the world,
 but I don't know if he'd have
 been the best one
 because he's not really a guy
 who depends on skills.
 He's a guy who just
 depends on heart.
 Kellerman: But I know
 what Jim means, Roy,
 in the sense that Rios
 had that thing about him
 that made you think he might
 be able to outkick
 his coverage, you know?
 He might be able to get more
 than he de--
 than anyone should get
 out of his ability.
 Lampley: Well, about
 six years ago, that discussion
 was about Juan Manuel Marquez,
 who was at that moment
 the best lightweight
 in the world,
 and the question was,
 could Marquez,
 with his finesse,
 with his boxing style,
stand up to the hard guy, Rios,
who would've gone right at him?
 Kellerman: Would've been
 a great fight,
but I'll tell you what, this is
 a pretty good one right now.
 Lampley: This is excellent.
 And Bradley's landing
 some very hard, clean shots,
 as Rios makes clear
 with his mugging.
Kellerman: And though his hands
 were down on the inside,
 he did slide off to the angle
 as Teddy asked.
- Stop, stop.
 Kellerman: He landed
 several punches,
 but Teddy said,
 "If you're gonna do that,
 do it on the side,"
 which is what Bradley did.
 Jones: He didn't stay
 right in front of him.
 Kellerman:
 He's a willing pupil.
 Lampley:
 Old habits die hard, though.
 Kellerman: Yeah, there he is.
 Lampley: He likes to lead
 with the left hook
 standing in front
 of Brandon Rios.
 No matter many times
 that Teddy Atlas tells him
 not to do it, it may not
 go away all at once.
 Kellerman: Well, and he's had
 tremendous success
 with Joel Diaz for many years
 with doing it a certain way.
 When the going gets rough,
 the fighters resort to doing
 what they've always done.
 Takes time
 to unlearn things.
 Lampley: When they fight
 at a distance,
 when Tim Bradley can
 stand back, look at Rios,
 and extend his arms,
 he is totally dominant.
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- Come on.
You're not supposed to.
'Cause you could take a punch
doesn't mean fucking
they could hit you as many
times as they want.
Let's go, bend your knees
and fucking work on the inside.
- Okay.
 Jones: Here you see Bradley
 throw a jab
 and go--get low and come over
 the top of Brandon's jab
 with the overhand right,
 landed right on the button.
 That was a good punch
 by Tim Bradley,
and he slipped Brandon's right.
 Once again,
 he comes over the top,
 this time with a more
 straight right hand.
 Brandon tried to roll
 the shoulder
 but was a little slow.
 Lampley: CompuBox numbers
 on punches
 to this point in the fight:
 Bradley 155 out of 333.
 That's 47%.
 And Rios 48 out of 264,
so to this moment in the fight,
 by CompuBox count,
 Bradley has more than tripled
 Brandon Rios' number
 of landed punches,
 landing 107 more of them.
 Kellerman: I like what
 Bradley's doing, Jim.
 You mentioned at the end
 of the last round,
 at arm's length, there's not
 a lot Rios can do,
 but as Roy mentioned earlier,
 if Bradley simply moves,
 Rios gets a head of steam.
 Think Margarito-Cotto.
 Bradley's breaking
 that momentum at times
 and breaking Rios' rhythm
 by fighting on the inside
 and pushing him back,
 but Bradley's doing it
 when he wants.
He's dictating when he does it,
 and when that's the case,
 he's in very good shape.
 Jones: Exactly,
 and he's throwing some
 really good shots too tonight.
You see him throwing some hooks
 with really bad intention
 on them,
 something that I've never seen
 from him before.
- Here we go.
 Lampley: Rios seems to be
 bothered around his right eye.
And Bradley hits that right eye
 with a left hook
 and now sticks the jab in it.
 Rios hasn't thrown anything
 of consequence since he began
 rubbing his right eye
 with his glove.
 Kellerman: There's
 Bradley's head on the side
 as Teddy wants,
 and then he gets out.
 Good, quick, left hook
 and he moves away.
 Jones: And he's throwing
 much smoother,
 much quicker punches
 on the inside.
Lampley: Four-punch combination
 all with the left hand.
 Keller: Now, the danger here
 for Bradley is,
 he needs to keep doing
 the right thing all night.
 Rios can do the wrong thing
 all night.
 He only needs to do
 the right thing one time
 if he can hurt Bradley
 with one of his power shots.
 Jones: Bradley's making it
very difficult for him, though,
 by pushing him back on
the inside, like you said, Max.
 Kellerman: Yep.
 And Garcia knows what he has
 in his charge,
 'cause they've been together
 for so long.
 They speak shorthand
 in the corner and...
 have--they're very much
 on the same wavelength,
 Robert Garcia and Rios
 in the corner.
 Lampley: I don't think
 I've ever seen Tim Bradley
 this effective
 as a combination puncher.
 Jones: Me either.
 Kellerman:
 Now, whether it's because
 the target is easy
 or whether it's because
 he has stepped up
 the level of his game
 is unclear at this moment,
 but he is looking terrific
 to this point in the fight.
 Jones: I think it's
 a little bit of both.
 Kellerman: This is a much
 better boxing Tim Bradley
 than we've seen recently.
 You can see the change,
 and you can also see
that it's not the whole fighter
 he might become,
 but it's the first step
 in that direction.
 Lampley:
 And the pattern continues
 of Bradley landing three times
 as many clean punches
 as is the case
 for Brandon Rios.
 Jones: And Brandon just
 slipped some punches.
[bell dinging]
- Time!
 Lampley:
 Imagine that.
 Jones: [laughs]
- [speaking Spanish]
- He gave you
a headbutt, yeah?
- Take a deep breath,
Brandon.
Brandon...
[speaking Spanish]
- Brandon, it's two rounds;
we haven't done anything.
- Giving the rounds away.
You're not even dropping
correctly, man.
You got to stay low,
stay--hands up high.
Block, block, but you got
to be more aggressive.
You got to throw more punches,
Brandon.
We're halfway through
already, Brandon.
Like that, you know,
every round's going to him.
Can't--can't do that, Brandon.
[speaking Spanish]
- Come on, son, you got
to put more guts into it.
You could do it.
- Come on, Brandon, show me.
Six rounds, what we got?
Come on, this is not what
we fucking trained for.
Come on, then, let's go.
This is not what fucking
we have in our mind.
Those better fucking plans.
Let's go!
[whistle blowing]
This is not gonna work like
that; let's go, Brandon.
- His second move.
- You got to go!
Let's go, let's go.
- And I do not want you--
 Lampley: Robert Garcia...
- Let's go, Teddy!
 Lampley:
 Robert Garcia tries a pep talk
 with Brandon Rios,
 see if he can get
 a higher energy level,
 a little bit more commitment
 in the ring.
 Doesn't like what he's seen
 so far.
 And Bradley begins the round
 with a clean combination.
 Harold, how do you have it
 through six?
 Lederman: Okay, Jim,
 I've got it five to one,
 59-55, Timothy Bradley.
 I don't know what's wrong
 with Brandon Rios, Jim.
 It's not his night.
 I mean, the guy's really
 not getting off.
 You know, he's not throwing
 all those good, hard shots,
 the kind of shots
 that knock you out.
 Look at this: he's standing
 in the middle of the ring.
 You know, he slaps him
 a couple times
 and then he covers up.
 I mean, it's not Brandon Rios.
 On the other hand,
 Timothy Bradley moving,
 piling up points,
 combinations inside,
 wonderful left jabs when
 he moves, good left hooks.
 He's doing it all.
 Five to one, Tim Bradley.
 Lampley: Max Kellerman
 has gone to Bradley's corner
 to talk to Teddy Atlas,
 Max?
 Kellerman:
 Teddy, what do you see so far?
 Atlas: I see, uh, you know--
 I see our game plan.
 I mean, a guy that's gonna
 come forward all night long
 and gives us opportunities
 to take things
 before he gets to where
 he wants to get to.
 You know, the whole idea is,
 control the geography
 of the ring.
 Don't let him get to where
 he wants--him being Rios.
 Don't let him get to where
 he wants to get to.
 Catch him--we got two things.
 Catch him as he comes in
 or counter him
 as he comes in,
 then move around him.
 When you are inside,
 be in good, strong,
 defensive position
 but don't stay there too long.
 Kellerman:
 We're very impressed with
 how much Tim has seemed
 to absorb in seven weeks.
 Is he doing a good job
 of implementing
 what he's learned?
 Atlas: Yeah, very good,
 I mean, very good.
Listen, you're not--you're kind
of easy to impress anyway, Max.
 I mean...
 [laughs]
 But no, I mean, listen,
 but it's not over.
We got to do it all night long.
 Everyone has different
 skill sets.
 You see our skill sets at use.
 Hey, the other guy's skill set
 is to come forward
 and come forward
 and come forward
 and try to get you to relent.
 Whether it's the fifth round,
 sixth round, or tenth round,
 we can't let that happen.
 We got to keep our
 concentration all night long.
 Kellerman:
 Thanks, Ted.
 Lampley: Less than
 a minute to go in round 7.
 No change in the basic
 dynamics of the fight.
 Robert Garcia asked Rios
 for more energy,
 asked Rios basically to be
 more like Brandon Rios,
 and, Roy Jones,
 hasn't happened in this round.
 Jones: No, Jim,
 and I think a lot of this is--
 a lot of this
 is that year layoff.
 You know, when you lay off
 and you gain so much weight,
 your body gets used to moving
 around at that heavier weight,
 and it's harder
 to get yourself back
 to being quick and sharp
 as you used to be.
 So most of his camp
 probably was spent
 trying to make the weight.
 That's why he ballooned
 back up to 170 tonight.
 With that being said,
 he doesn't have a lot of days
 in the gym of being sharp.
 Most of his days
 have been slow, heavy,
 and this is how
 he's looking tonight.
 So he has more days
 of training like this
 than he does
 of training sharply
 because of that weight gain,
 which is a result
 of the year layoff.
[bell dinging]
- Time!
- All right, I got
a secret to tell you.
Didn't I tell you
the rounds would fly
if you concentrate?
Did I tell you?
I told you the rounds
would fly by
if you concentrate, right?
All right, all you got
is 15 minutes.
Can you be strong
for 15 minutes?
Can you?
- Yeah.
- Listen, your concentration
is weaving a little bit.
Pick it up.
- Okay.
- Pick it up!
- Okay.
- Don't pull
straight out.
Bend your knees
and be strong
on the inside
and go around him.
Let's control the outside.
Look, the fire's coming.
Are you ready for the fire?
We're firemen.
- Okay.
- We are firemen!
- You got it, Coach.
- The heat doesn't bother us.
We live in the heat.
We train in the heat!
- Yeah, let's go.
- It tells us that we're ready.
We're at home.
We're where we're
supposed to be.
Flames don't intimidate us.
What do we do?
We control the flames.
- That's right.
- We control them!
- Let's go.
- We move the flames
where we want to.
- Let's go, let's go!
- And then we extinguish them.
- Let's go.
 Lampley: With that kind
 of urgency in a fight
 in which he's winning
 every round,
 what's it gonna be like
 if he's ever in trouble?
 Kellerman:
 Well, Tim's father
 gave him a kind of
 football-style upbringing,
 and Teddy just gave him a
 football speech in the corner,
 and Tim responded to it.
 You could see
 he was digging it.
 Lampley: Oh, look at this.
 Look at this.
 It's like flipping a switch.
 I think
 this could turn out to be
 a perfect trainer-fighter
 relationship.
 Jones:
 I think it can too, Jim.
 Lampley: I mean,
 they're made for each other
 to a certain degree.
 Kellerman: Now, let's see
 if Bradley can not get caught
 with something
 that hurts him
 in these next several rounds.
 Rios continues to come forward
 with a 15-pound
 weight advantage tonight.
 170 to 155 tonight
 on our unofficial scale.
 Kellerman: Bradley's
 had a way of making
 easy fights tough
 in the last couple years.
 Jones: That was a good one-two
 by Bradley right there.
- You got to throw punches
like that; keep throwing.
Come on.
- Don't hold him, man.
Don't hold him.
 Kellerman:
 What do you suppose Rios did
 last night
 to put on 23 pounds?
 Now, I know--I know the bulk
 of it is rehydration...
 Jones: Yup.
 Kellerman:
 And the consumption of
 a glycogen-type fluid,
 like Pedialyte,
 and that's the basic MO,
 right?
 Jones: Yes, it is,
 that's the basic MO,
 but your body has to know
 that weight already
 in order for you to be able
 go back there that quick.
 If it's not
 where you came from,
 then your body won't
 go there so quick,
 but when that's
 where you came from
 and depleted it down to 147,
 you neatly go right back
 to that spot.
 Kellerman: I suspect
 salty food too,
 you know, and things
 that'll...
 Lampley: Tacos.
 Kellerman: Retain water.
 Lampley:
 He loves tacos.
 Kellerman: Yeah, no, he's--
 he's quite open about it...
 and his camp is open
 about the fact that
 he doesn't always
 stick to the diet.
- Come on, let's go!
 Kellerman: And Robert Garcia
 is bemused about it.
 He smiles when talking about
 the difficulty of dealing
 with Brandon Rios.
 Lampley:
 Well, he knows what he has,
 and he loves the guy.
 Jones: You got to, Jim.
With a heart like Brandon Rios,
 you got to love him
because although he's not gonna
 do everything the right way
 or the way you ask him,
 when that bell rings,
 he's gonna give you
 everything that he has,
 so you got to love him.
- Let him go,
let him go.
 Jones: Not his fault that
 he didn't fight in a year,
 I don't think.
 Just wish he would've
 been--been active
 coming to a fight like this.
 But Tim is looking very good,
 the best I've ever seen him
 throw combinations,
 the best I've ever seen him
 pick his punches,
 his choice of punches
 at the right time.
- Let him go.
Let him go.
 Jones: I mean, he looks like
 a rejuvenated fighter here.
 Lampley:
 And what he hasn't done...
[bell dinging]
- Time!
 Lampley: Is to stand directly
 in front of Rios
 and offer Rios an opportunity
 to change the fight.
 Never once has he done that.
 Jones:
 Not at all.
- What's going on, mi'jo?
The fuck is going on, Brandon?
Let's go, come on!
- You got four fucking
rounds left.
- Four fucking rounds
to go, mi'jo.
Come on, Brandon.
Mi'jo, you're
disappointing everybody.
You're just fucking waiting
and not doing nothing.
Slow, just picking your body up.
If he hits you, you smile?
That's just not winning rounds.
'Cause you could take a punch
doesn't win rounds.
- And I want you
to use that jab
and step over the way
you are to your left.
Use that jab,
step to your left,
and then what that's gonna do
is, that's gonna create him--
that motion's gonna
create a motion for you
where you can then move
to the right
and put something else up.
Give me some water.
You understand?
I don't want you
laying in front.
He needs your help
to win this fight,
to make a mistake,
to lay in front too long.
Control the outside.
Keep your concentration.
Don't drop those hands.
[bell dinging]
 Lampley:
 Power punches through eight:
 Timothy Bradley
 153 out of 290.
 53%--that's pretty good,
 although on the undercard,
 we saw Vasyl Lomachenko
 land 2/3 of his power punches.
 Brandon Rios 65 out of 342.
 That's 19% once again.
 Bradley is basically
 tripling Rios
 in all the statistical
 categories,
 landing three times
 as many punches,
 throwing more,
 landing twice as many,
 maybe three times
 as many power shots.
 It's just a--an easy, easy win
 so far for Timothy Bradley.
- Stop, stop. I got you.
Let him up.
 Kellerman:
 And you heard Robert Garcia
 in the corner give Rios
 the straight dope.
 He's like, "You know,
 you take a punch and smile
 "or shake your head,
 that doesn't win rounds.
 You got to go get him."
- Don't hold him.
Don't hold him. Don't hold him.
 Lampley:
 Well, I think at round 9...
- Don't hold him.
Don't hold him.
 Lampley:
 We're probably beyond
 the winning rounds issue now.
 This is either
 you're gonna reel him in
 with an amazing knockout or
 it's gonna be more of the same
 down to the finish
 of the fight.
 Kellerman: For those
 listening to us focus on Teddy
 and the training
 he does with Bradley,
 you might think, well,
 look, Bradley and Rios,
 given what they've both
 done in their careers,
 Bradley's supposed
 to beat Rios,
 but it's the way in which
 he's beating Rios.
 It's the pitfalls
 that he's avoiding
 that he's made
 in recent fights,
 and it's the application
 of what he's learned
 in an advanced way
in a very short amount of time.
- Don't hold him.
Don't hold him.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Let him go.
 Lampley: Does it put him
 on the same level
 with his buddy
 Terence Crawford?
 Kellerman:
 As--as what?
 Lampley: As a potential
 opponent for Pacquiao
 at 140 or 147.
 Kellerman: As a potential
 Pacquiao opponent, yes,
 but Crawford
 is in his physical prime
 and fighting at a--
 in rarified air right now.
 You know, with the likes
 of Chocolatito and Lomachenko.
 Lampley: Well, for instance,
 we asked Lomachenko yesterday,
"Who do you look at as somebody
 else who's on your level?"
 And the first name he produced
 was Terence Crawford.
- All right, guys,
stop, stop.
Let him up.
Let him up.
 Jones:
 Good shot by Tim Bradley.
 Kellerman:
 Ooh, what a body shot.
 Jones: Yup.
 Kellerman: As we saw
 in the first fight
 with Lomachenko,
 sometimes a guy
 with a really good beard
 never stopped, but look--
 Lampley:
 Down goes Rios on an uppercut
 following three straight
 super solid body shots
 by Tim Bradley.
- Seven...
 Kellerman: And Rios
 doesn't look like he's eager,
 but he does get up.
- You good, Brandon?
I'ma give you a chance,
all right?
Here we go.
 Lampley: Brandon's
 got a lot of heart,
 but he's taking
 a lot of punishment
 from a really good fighter
 who is fighting his best,
 and Brandon can't even throw,
 down again.
 That's gonna be the end
 of the fight.
 Jones: Yup.
 Lampley: Tony Weeks
 is gonna wave it off.
 A knockout victory
 for Tim Bradley
 with 11 seconds left
 in round 9.
 Kellerman:
 You can't do better than that
 first time out
 with a new coach,
 and as a trainer,
 you can't do better than that
 first time out
 with a new fighter.
- Whoo!
 Lampley: Monica Bradley,
 manager of and wife of
 and pretty happy right
 now--biggest fan of,
 by the way--and Teddy Atlas
 maybe the second biggest fan.
- Got one thing to say to you.
My man.
- My man!
My man, we did it, baby!
- Hey, champ...
[unintelligible]
- Let me get some water.
- Right here, Coach.
- Thank you.
- You can to go say hi to Rios.
- I'm gonna go over to Rios.
 Lampley:
 A marriage made in the ring.
Timothy Bradley and Teddy Atlas
 produce a masterpiece
in their first outing together.
 Jones: Yeah, it was
 a beautiful masterpiece.
 You saw him going to the body,
 going to the head.
 You know that Rios
 just was not prepared tonight
 with the big weight gain
 you saw.
 That year off really hurt him,
 and with that being said,
 Tim took advantage of it.
 Lampley: Here's the first
 knockdown, Roy.
 Jones: Yeah, here
 you see Bradley going
 from left to right.
 Beautiful body shots
 right there.
 Those are the ones that
 really caused the knockdown,
 that body shot,
 then another uppercut,
 and that body shot
 is really what that--
 the uppercut didn't even
 really land.
 It's the body shot
 that caused him to go down.
 Lampley: And now here's
 the end of the fight as Rios--
 Jones: And he's on the attack,
 another body shot,
 right body, left body,
 hook to the head.
 Another right body shot,
 pitty-pat,
 another body shot,
 another body shot,
 and down Rios goes again.
 woman: ♪ All we need
 is someone to lean on ♪
 Lampley:
 Bradley probably fortunate
 that he didn't catch
 the back of Rios' head
 with that last shot
 as Brandon was bending forward
 to go down in front of him.
 woman:
 ♪ Blow a kiss, fire a gun ♪
 Kellerman: Timothy Bradley
 shrugging his shoulders
 as if to say, "Good enough?"
- Good-ass body shot, baby.
- Thank you so much, a'ight?
- Good fucking body shot, baby.
- Hey, I appreciate you.
[indistinct chatter]
Thank you so much, man.
- Much respect for you.
- Thank you for the body shots.
- Thank you. Thanks, man.
- [unintelligible]
- Thank you, sir.
- Appreciate it.
- No, thank you for the
opportunity; I appreciate it.
- Oh, thank you
for the opportunity.
Unfortunately knocked down,
but thanks for the opportunity.
- Don't worry about it, man.
You'll be back and strong.
Thanks, man.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Much respect to your team.
Hey, guys.
Hey, much respect to your team,
much respect, okay?
 ♪ ♪
 Lampley:
 Let's go to Michael Buffer
 for the official
 particulars on the KO.
[bell dinging]
 Buffer: Ladies and gentlemen,
 courtesy of Wynn Las Vegas,
 the official time:
 2:49 of round number 9,
 the fight comes to an end.
 The winner by knockout victory
 and still...
- And still, baby!
 Buffer: The two-time WBO
 welterweight champion
 of the world,
 Timothy "Desert Storm"...
 Bradley!
- Young master's back, baby.
Young master's back.
Yeah, baby!
Thank you. Hey, thank you.
Thank you.
 ♪ ♪
 Lampley: And let's go to
 Max Kellerman with the winner.
- Tim, Tim...
we're not used to seeing
you score knockouts.
Where did that come from?
- You know what?
First I want to give
all the praise and honor
to God for this victory tonight
and allowing me to be here
today on this stage again.
I also want
to give a shout-out
to all the veterans
out there, baby,
all the military veterans.
I want to give a shout-out
to all the veterans.
Thank you so much, and
Team Bradley all the way, man,
and all the fans that came
out to support tonight.
Thank you very much
for coming out.
- Okay, you got
the shout-outs.
You earned them.
Where did--where did
the knockout come from, Tim?
- You know what?
I seen how I hurt him
early to the body.
I kind of wanted to get him
not thinking about it
for a while,
and then I went back downstairs.
We've been working
in the gym on the side step
kind of like this
side step hook to the body,
and I caught him
when I sidestepped him.
I caught him right
in the solar plexus.
I heard him grunt, and then
I just went down to the body,
and he went--and he--
and he went down.
- You've had a long
and really good career,
but it seems to me
and others ringside
that that's the best
we've seen you look.
How would you assess
your performance?
- You know what?
That's great.
I got a lot to learn.
This is seven weeks into
training camp with Mr. Atlas.
You see
I looked great tonight.
Got--I still got a lot
to learn, but you know what?
It did work tonight.
A lot of things that he
showed me did work tonight.
- Now, this is your first
fight with a new trainer,
and you've had spectacular
results tonight,
much like Freddie Roach
and Miguel Cotto
seemed to click and get
spectacular results.
How close are you now,
do you feel,
to challenging
the very top of boxing,
as you have throughout
your career,
especially in recent years,
even though you've only had
seven weeks together so far?
- We had seven weeks.
I wonder what
a year would do.
I wonder what
two years would bring.
Like I said,
I still got a lot to learn,
but, you know,
we put it together tonight.
I got a knockout win
against a great champion
and a great opponent
in Brandon Rios,
who's tough and gritty,
and can take shots.
I don't know.
The sky's the limit
from here, I believe,
and Teddy said already
he's coming back to camp.
He's coming back to train me
for my next training camp,
so I'm excited about that.
- I mean, if he
wouldn't after that,
what would bring him back?
Thank you, Tim.
- Thank you.
Thank you very much.
- Brandon, shocking to see you
stopped in a fight,
especially against a guy
who's not known as a puncher.
What happened?
- My body is not the same
no more.
I been in a lot of wars,
and you know what?
I think it's time
to hang it up, you know?
I had a great performance
with Timothy Bradley
in my career.
I'm done.
I think--I think that's it.
You know, it was a great run.
It is what it is.
I'd like to thank the fans for
coming out and supporting this
even though I didn't
give a great show,
but fuck,
it is what it is.
I don't want to hurt my body.
I don't want to hurt my family.
And I don't want to hurt
my close friends around me.
So, you know, I think it's time
for me to hang up the gloves.
After an eight-month layoff,
it's fucking bullshit, you know?
I was eight months
without training,
and come back in the gym,
it's fucked.
So yeah, at the end of the day,
you know,
when I tried to get back in,
my body wasn't reacting
the same.
So it is what it is.
I think it's done for me.
I'll hang up the gloves
and say--call it a night.
- Obviously a very emotional
moment for you.
Thanks for talking.
- No problem, man.
- So what was it?
Did Tim Bradley and Teddy Atlas
really have something special
that night,
or did Brandon Rios'
failure to prepare
hand them a gimme in effect?
 We'll all find out
 for sure April 9,
 when Bradley goes back
 into the ring
 for his third meeting
 with Manny Pacquiao
 live on HBO Pay-Per-View
 in Las Vegas
 the evening of April 9.
 Don't miss it.
 [dramatic music]
 ♪ ♪
