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COUNTDOWN: PACQUIAO/BRADLEY 3 Closed Captioned
HAUSER: Boxing, more than any other sport,
tends to create
these seismic shifts
and send these waves of emotion around the globe.
Joe Lewis did it. Muhammad Ali did it.
For the Filipino people, Manny Pacquiao has done it.
This is a great opportunity and privilege
to fight Bradley again, and I choose Bradley
because he's different than before,
when we-we had the last fight.
ANNOUNCER: Down goes Ríos on an uppercut
following three straight super solid body shots by Tim Bradley.
HAUSER: With Pacquiao and Bradley,
their skills are so well matched
that Pacquiao-Bradley 3 could very easily be
the best of the three fights.
ATLAS: Both these guys have something to prove.
To themselves, for their legacy,
for their history, for the rest of their lives.
And you're gonna see how people behave
when they have that on the line.
BRADLEY: I think he's gonna come ready,
I think he's come hungry,
and I think that he's gonna be set out to prove once again
that he's one of the best fighters of this era.
Look, the fire's coming.
Are you ready for the fire?
Uh, we're firemen.
-We are firemen! -You got it, coach.
He knows he's on TV, he knows when the red light's on him.
I think he likes acting.
ATLAS: I should know when the pressure, the light--
he wants to call it "the light is on."
At the end of the day,
I'm not a guy that's gonna be taking selfies in the runway...
before my fighter's going into the fight of the millennium,
when so much is on the line.
So, yeah, you think I care about what the freak that guy
that acted that way, that behaved that way,
that I care what he thinks of me?!
No.
I don't.
And I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
DuBOEF: Tim Bradley, going into the Manny Pacquiao fight,
was always considered
one of the top pound-for-pound fighters.
He had wiped out basically the division,
and Manny Pacquiao was a dream for him.
COMMENTATOR: You see Bradley doing his best
to not let the moment get to him,
but he is clearly tightly wound.
Back then, when I... when I fought Manny the first time,
I was, uh... I was a young guy,
full of confidence, never been beaten,
felt like it was my destiny to...
to beat a great champion in Manny Pacquiao,
felt like it was my time.
COMMENTATOR: In the arena,
they were playing Pacquiao highlights.
Tim Bradley's highlights were ordinary fighter highlights.
Pacquiao's highlights are once-in-a-generation highlights.
It was really nerve-racking.
I was super nervous going into that fight.
With the media and the amount of media that I did,
you know, um...
it just felt like I was getting ready to fight King Kong.
I felt so nervous, I felt like throwing up.
I was like, "Oh, my goodness, I never felt this way before."
Like, "What am I about to get into?"
COMMENTATOR: One night, this incredible ride
that Pacquiao has taken us all on will come to an end.
Can Tim Bradley make tonight that night?
To be perfectly frank,
I thought it was one of Manny's better fights.
You know, it was a, uh, dominating performance.
COMMENTATOR: Hard left hand by Pacquiao down the pipe.
It's another straight left hand under Bradley's jaw.
LEDERMAN: When you talk about a guy out-boxing another guy,
Manny out-boxed him, I mean, there was no question.
Manny throws that right jab, keeps the left hand back.
And he was killing it with straight left hands, all night.
ROACH: Manny said he would run in the fight, and I thought,
uh, he will come forward, uh, at times also.
So we were ready for both.
KONCZ: Well, he wasn't only faster,
his hand speed certainly was faster,
but Manny was using the angles like he did against De La Hoya
when he thought he was ahead so far in the scorecards,
there was no reason to hurt the guy.
COMMENTATOR: Manny seems to be taking the first two minutes off
of some rounds
-and then flurrying in the third minute of the round. -Yes, yes.
Thought my jab was very effective.
I thought my body shots were very effective.
Thought a few of my uppercuts were very effective.
I felt that Manny would come on later in the rounds,
at probably, like, the last minute
and try to steal the-the round
with his flurries, and he missed a lot of shots.
Uh, there were some rounds where he was-was dominant,
but there was a lot of rounds
where he missed a lot of punches.
And, uh, I controlled the action.
From the whole way through,
I fought every minute of every round.
Hey, you're executing the (bleep) left really nice!
I want you to keep doing that!
Every time he... he shoots that left,
I want you to lean down, but come up with something, baby.
You know how it is.
This (bleep) guy has a name.
To go the distance, you need to put up the extra work, man.
I was like, "Huh, I'm right here with this dude.
"Uh, I-I've seen this before.
"This ain't nothing new, you know?
"This is not like I'm in here with-with God
or in here with someone that's super special."
-(bell rings) -MAN: Time! Time!
ATLAS: When I watched the fight with no vested interest,
I thought that Pacquiao won.
I thought he won.
LEDERMAN: Uh, at the end of the round,
you say to yourself, "Who did more damage?
You know, fighter A or fighter B?"
And that's who you give ten points to,
and then the other guy gets nine.
And in Pacquiao-Bradley 1, there was no question in my mind
that, uh, Manny was doing more damage in each and every round.
He won that fight big.
ANNOUNCER: Jerry Roth scores the bout 115-113 for Pacquiao.
C.J. Ross scores it 115-113...
for Bradley.
And Duane Ford scores it 115-113...
to the winner by split-decision
and new WBO welterweight champion of the world,
Timothy...
Bradley!
COMMENTATOR: Timothy Bradley has scored
an upset split-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao.
God only knows how.
I think it's a one-sided fight,
and then... I was surprised
when I heard the announ...
when-when I heard the announcement.
Did you think you won the fight?
Absolutely, yes. Absolutely.
PACQUIAO: I'm showing professionalism.
Being professional, you know, in sports,
uh, when you lost, then accept it.
How does it feel to have the official verdict,
to have won, to-to have beaten Manny Pacquiao?
I mean, it feels great, it feels great,
but I'm not satisfied.
Um, you know, you can hear the boos in the crowd.
You know, everybody in the crowd think I lost the fight.
I know it's predominantly Pacquiao fans,
but, you know what, uh, let's do it again.
Let's do it again.
ATLAS: When I had a vested interest,
I watched it, and I turned the sound off.
I saw at least six rounds
that you could easily give to Timothy Bradley.
HAUSER: I thought that was a very, very close fight.
In fact, sitting at ringside,
I was one of the few people who scored it for Tim Bradley.
I'm not gonna quarrel with anybody
who thought Manny won that fight,
but I go nuts when I hear people say,
"Oh, it's the worst decision I've ever seen."
I give Bradley one.
And, if I'm really generous, two rounds.
-What I told you? -Yeah, you told me.
-Before. -I know.
I always told you, he's gonna run.
Yeah, you told me that.
-He's gonna run, huh? -I said no.
Right? He's gonna run.
Yeah, 100%
I know who to listen to next time.
(laughing)
DuBOEF: Tim Bradley wanted to be catapulted somewhere,
and after the result of that first fight,
I think it brought him lower than he's ever been.
COMMENTATOR: So what did Tim Bradley do
after the Pacquiao fight?
Well, by his own admission, he was driven to depression
by the response to the Pacquiao fight
and the feeling on the part of so many
that he was not in fact the winner.
I went into that fight, you know, with a... with a game-plan
that I had to knock this guy out
because of the circumstances from the first fight.
COMMENTATOR: Bradley told Pacquiao,
"I'm gonna knock you out."
Pacquiao said, "We'll see in the ring."
BRADLEY: I got out of my element, and I wasn't myself.
The second fight that we had is... my memory is...
I'm more improved than the first one.
I think, um...
it's... it's more...
uh, more punches that I throw that...
compared of the first fight.
COMMENTATOR: Pacquiao landed a one-two.
Backs Bradley up.
Goes to the flurry again.
Pacquiao unloads a combination,
driving Bradley back with the jab.
Pacquiao lands a left.
The first five rounds of that fight,
Tim was doing exactly what he wanted.
ANNOUNCER: And Bradley with a right hand,
momentarily lifted Pacquiao off his feet.
HAUSER: He was leading
on the judges' scorecards,
three rounds to two.
He was very well positioned,
as a superbly conditioned athlete,
to come on strong in the late rounds.
Then he tore a muscle
in his calf.
He couldn't move properly.
And what he was reduced to doing
was backing into corners and hoping Manny would come in
and Tim could then just
hurl something at him,
get lucky and clip him on the jaw.
ANNOUNCER: But as Harold Lederman pointed out,
Bradley keeps backing up.
Pacquiao feints, Bradley backs up.
BRADLEY: It was a bad game plan, because... (chuckles)
because of the injury.
I was trying to just stay in the fight
and I was trying to just, you know,
give the fans what their money worth
and be able to... I knew that I wouldn't be able to,
to come back and really win that fight,
um, with the-the injury I sustained,
but uh, you know, I was just putting on a show at the end.
ANNOUNCER 2: Bradley's trying to pull the Marquez on Pacquiao--
have him come in to set him up for the big shot.
ANNOUNCER: Hard left hand by Pacquiao.
Thunder is not there. And another hard left.
ANNOUNCER 2: It's backfired so far this round.
-(bell clangs) -Time!
(audience cheering)
So when and where will the third fight take place?
(Bradley laughing)
BRADLEY: I hope not too long from now,
and where it takes place at, I don't care.
I just want to be there.
I got more respect for that fight than-than the first one.
It was from everyone.
They-they respect me a lot more for the way I fought.
They never seen Manny get hit with a lot of shots like that.
KONCZ: Manny is, uh, a much more experienced fighter.
He's a much more skilled fighter.
I don't take anything away from Bradley,
but he's not in the same league as Manny.
And I think we proved it again in the second fight.
(dramatic drum beats)
♪ ♪
When you begin in this business,
as a fighter or as a, later on, maybe as a trainer, coach,
you aspire to be the best.
I mean, that's what makes it all worthwhile,
whether you get there or not.
But you're trying to get the same place
that people in the NFL,
people in the MLB,
people in the NBA...
You're trying to get to the Super Bowl.
And... when you're given an opportunity
to get to the Super Bowl,
you want to make the most of it.
HAUSER: Teddy Atlas has been in boxing
a long, long time.
He was one of Mike Tyson's early trainers, as an amateur.
As the story goes, Teddy put a gun
to Mike Tyson's head
after Mike had acted inappropriately
with Teddy's young sister-in-law.
Teddy has trained fighters like Shannon Briggs,
Michael Moorer...
His history has been
that he'll start with a fighter,
he'll move the fighter along very nicely and develop 'em
and then there's a falling out.
Listen to me, you're not gonna have a real friendly corner.
I'm proud of you, but you're not gonna have a friendly corner
if you keep letting him go slow. All right?
You gonna make him go faster? All right.
There are people who say that Teddy Atlas
plays to the camera when he's in the corner.
I think Teddy Atlas is a professional
and I'm confident that whatever Teddy Atlas does in the corner,
he's doing it to motivate his fighter.
In the years of boxing,
I've never spoken to Teddy Atlas before.
I've never been on his radio show. I never knew he had one.
ATLAS: We told him about his last fight with Vargas,
where he got hurt.
So I asked, uh, "Do you know why you got hurt?"
He said, "I got hit with a right hand."
And I said, "But do you know why?"
And he said, "Do you want.. Could you tell me?"
So I told him.
BRADLEY: He's like, "What do you do
when a guy squats down in front of you?"
I said... (scoffs) "I don't know."
He was like, "You squat down with him.
"Every time a guy squats down in front of you,
"what he's trying to do-- he's trying to rob you, Tim.
"You think he's going to your body, but he's not.
"He's coming over the top.
"It's a sneak shot, Tim.
"Go back and see what you do.
"The guy is right in front of you, he squats down,
"you roll your shoulders back and you...
"you try to counter with a right hand.
"You did that the whole fight.
He set you up for that punch."
And I said, "You know what?
"For someone that's not my trainer,
"that can get me that much detail
and that much insight, on me as a fighter, that's amazing."
And I said, "I want Teddy to train me."
ATLAS: The reason that I said yes to him,
'cause I thought I could help him.
That's what is at the core of a teacher,
is that you can help somebody.
♪ ♪
ANNOUNCER: When Brandon Ríos is at his best,
he's a relentlessly, ruthlessly attacking fighter
who is able to impose his offense on his opponent
to devastating effect.
In Tim Bradley, he has an opponent who may be vulnerable,
who just switched trainers to the famed Teddy Atlas.
But still, sometimes, you see when a fighter does that,
he takes one step backward
before able to take two steps forward.
Ríos hadn't been knocked out by anybody.
Ríos had endured every power shot,
fought every guy out there,
was relentless.
ATLAS: Going in,
we understood what was in front of us: a tough,
never-say-die guy that was resolute at coming forward.
When you know what someone's gonna do, you can prepare.
And if you can prepare, you can win.
We had two choices in that fight:
time him on the way in
or make him miss first and counter-punch him.
And then move around him.
Because we understood in the predictability
department of Ríos, that we could depend on,
was that it was always gonna come to you down these lanes.
BRADLEY: I had to be able to withstand the fire,
because Ríos is gonna come all night.
Are you ready for the fire?
We're firemen. 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 'em!
-Let's go. -We move the flames where we want to.
And then we extinguish them.
Coach, we gotta go!
-Coach, we gotta go, gotta go. -Control the outside.
BRADLEY: When I was on the inside with Ríos,
I didn't panic.
I was calm.
I knew exactly where I needed to be
and I was comfortable doing it.
ANNOUNCER: Good shot by Tim.
-ANNOUNCER 2: What a body shot. -Yep.
DuBOEF: Bradley not only picked him apart,
but then out-bullied him and beat him to the body.
Just broke him down.
(audience cheering)
ANNOUNCER 2: Down goes Ríos on an uppercut
following three straight super solid body shots.
That is just determination and skill
and I don't think we've ever seen that--
anybody do that to Brandon Ríos.
ANNOUNCER 2: 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.
A knockout victory
for Tim Bradley with 11 seconds left in round nine.
You can't do better than that,
first time out with a new coach.
Well, you know, he tells a good story, and so forth,
but the thing is about the opponent
wasn't in that good of shape.
So I really can't give him credit for that fight.
HAUSER: Ríos came in like a slob.
He hadn't trained for the fight.
He wasn't in shape.
So I think that was more a question of Brandon Ríos
coming in unprofessionally than it was Teddy Atlas' influence.
DuBOEF: I think one of the things
that people don't talk about is the fighter psyche.
Right now, he's in the zone.
He has incredible confidence,
mental confidence, with Teddy Atlas in his corner.
And that swagger and that cockiness
is a game-changer for an athlete.
(dramatic drum beats)
ARUM: I'm delighted to be here in Mexico City.
The story here today
is the three Hispanic fighters
that we will be featuring on the April 9 card.
They are the stars of the future.
Jose Ramirez demonstrates
the great contribution
that Mexicans have made to the United States.
Oscar Valdez will fight
his toughest fight against the former world champion,
Evgeny Gradovich,
in a really big crossroads fight.
Finally, Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez
is looking to be the first Mexican
to win a world championship
in a weight division as high as super middleweight.
AQUILES CASTANEDA: The thing here is that
Mexico needs champions.
We happen to have a champion crisis,
to say it some way.
I think Oscar Valdez and also
Gilberto Ramirez-- including probably
Jose Ramirez-- can be those champions.
(speaking in Spanish)
GILBERTO (through translator): They say, in Mexico, they say
if you're left-handed, you're not natural.
But you know it help me, 'cause they made me write.
They made me a lot of things right-handed when I was little.
And then now as a boxer, I think I can do both things.
-I'm ambidextrous now. -(bell rings)
ANNOUNCER: Now Ramirez puts together a combination.
ANNOUNCER 2: He needs to hang on.
Edwards not feeling it. He's in trouble!
Edwards in trouble in the final five seconds!
CASTANEDA: Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez
came from Mazatlan, Sinaloa.
Sinaloa is one of the main spots
for Mexican boxers.
A lot of, uh, great boxers have
came from, from Sinaloa.
That's what Zurdo Ramirez is.
April 9 is the most important fight of my career.
There is no doubt about that.
Big show-- it's uh,
the championship finally arrives.
-It's the fight of my life. -He has a perfect record.
I think he have the skills.
But we need to see if Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez
is gonna be able to get his title
against one of the biggest guys in boxing,
which is Arthur Abraham.
GILBERTO: Arthur Abraham
is just a great fighter, great champion.
Undefeated since 2013,
we know how dangerous he is.
We know how capable he is.
We know it's a hard fight.
But that's what we train for.
That's what we train hard for.
The opportunity is here.
And I'm gonna do the best I can.
And I'm taking that belt home.
I think about this fight.
I think about all that I need to do.
I sleep, I eat-- all waking moments,
I'm thinking about the fight.
About what I need to do to win the fight.
I know that this is what we worked for.
The opportunity to take home that win.
All of us, as a team, we want to take that win home.
VALDEZ: I'm very proud of being a Mexican.
It's an honor for me to represent
Mexico in the Olympics.
And it's an honor now to have my Mexican background,
all my people, um, support me.
Well, ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being
a professional boxer and to become a world champion.
You know, I wanted to first
go to the Olympics-- that was my main
dream growing up.
After I went to my second Olympics, then I knew
it was time to go professional, if I wanted
my career as a professional boxer.
CASTANEDA: I think that Oscar Valdez is one of those
fighters that have boxing and also personality.
He can be a good fighter and a good person to follow.
He's a nice guy.
He's a good-looking guy.
He connects with people.
I consider myself as a smart fighter.
You know, I can bring a lot of things to the table.
If my opponent wants to brawl, I can brawl it out.
If he wants to box, I can also box.
That's one of the good things that the amateur
background gave me-- learning to fight
from different styles,
Not always having one style inside the ring.
CASTANEDA: I learned that Oscar Valdez
is still humble.
That he knows that
Mexico or the world still needs to see him
fighting against someone big,
against the biggest names in boxing.
And Gradovich is one of those names that ev-everybody
in the, in the boxing world
wants to see him fighting against.
VALDEZ: Gradovich is a tough fighter-- goes forward,
tries to make it a difficult fight.
I can make the fight easy, I can make the fight hard.
It all depends on the work we do in the gym.
JOSE: I'm a fighter that always, you know, gives it my all.
You know, I leave my, I leave my heart in the, in the ring.
It's hard for me to take a step back.
I'm a very hard puncher. I go to the body a lot.
CASTANEDA: I think that Jose Ramirez
is a very humble guy, a very humble man.
I expect him to fight well
because he is training
with Manny Pacquiao.
He is training with one
of the major names
in trainers, which is Freddie Roach.
ANNOUNCER: Oh, another body shot!
That is right on the liver!
And he may not be able to recover!
Maybe 85% of my knockouts are
with my left hook and it just,
that's where the liver is at. Sometimes you face
the tough fighters with a lot of heart,
and they just don't fold and they just keep coming forward.
I think hitting them in the body just breaks them down.
CASTANEDA: He's not Mexican, 'cause he's American.
He was born in America,
but he's still been part of Mexico somehow,
'cause their father's born in Mexico-- Michoacán,
a place with a lot of history
and culture and stuff from Mexico.
So this is very important for the Mexicans living
across the border and for the Mexicans living here
that have a dream to cross the border
and find a new life.
PACQUIAO: I'm sad to say that after this,
I'm going to retire and hang up my gloves.
I remember when I started boxing,
I enter into boxing because I want to help
my family, my mother.
That's how I love boxing.
And now I end
my boxing career and helping people,
uh, helping the-the Filipino people.
HAUSER: Whether or not this is Manny Pacquiao's last fight,
history will remember Manny Pacquiao kindly.
He was a great fighter.
There was that three-fight stretch where he fought
Oscar De La Hoya,
Ricky Hatton,
Miguel Cotto.
He would've been competitive with,
and might've beaten any fighter
in his weight class ever.
(crowd cheering)
ANNOUNCER: Hard left hand!
Straight on the mat by Pacquiao!
Here comes Guerrero's corner!
Guerrero's cornerman is up on the edge,
and he's gonna step into the ring!
That's a good decision.
ANNOUNCER 2: Yeah, he's fighting with the greats,
and so every time he goes...
ANNOUNCER: There he goes!
There's the second knockdown
and the stoppage!
Manny Pacquiao has knocked out the great Érik Morales!
And he finds the straight left hand!
And there's the punching power!
That momentarily backed Pacquiao up.
ANNOUNCER 2: But as he's going straight back...
ANNOUNCER: Third knockdown of the first round!
How many more?
Down he goes.
And down goes Marquez.
What a straight left hand...
HAUSER: Manny was just a great, great fighter.
He really was.
He is one of those fighters who transcended boxing.
He has been a beacon of hope
for 100 million people in the Philippines.
He really has been the living embodiment
of somebody who sincerely does good charitable works.
He has done for the Filipino people what
Muhammad Ali did for oppressed people all over the world.
That makes him very, very special.
PACQUIAO: I want to uh, establish, uh,
that before I retire, my last fight
is W, not the L.
I don't think he's retiring.
I know Manny very well.
And I know Manny's running for senator right now.
And for the senator of his country to defend his title
would be like one of Manny's dreams.
He is the best guy I've ever met in this game.
I mean, we've been together for 15 years now.
Most marriages don't last that long.
Bradley was not the same fighter
that he once was, and then the strategy
isn't gonna change too much from the last two,
because I thought we had,
we had good success the last two times we fought him.
I am looking for a knockout.
Um, and I'm just gonna try to convince Manny of that also.
PACQUIAO: I told you that he improve a lot so I'm not saying
that this fight is gonna be easy for me, but...
(laughs) It's harder than...
the last fight we-we had.
HAUSER: I like Tim Bradley in this fight.
I think he has a lot more left in his tank
than Manny Pacquiao does.
And mentally, he's more into the fight.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
That's the smart person that I know,
and why he's a five-time world champion.
You take the principles of what I'm showing you--
the-the guidelines of it--
and then take it where you want to take it.
It made sense to take it farther out.
You took it farther out.
So I couldn't hit you with that right hand.
It's hell during training.
It's hell for everyone.
It's not only me, it's, you know, my whole team.
It's hell.
It's nerve-racking, it's patience,
it's time, it's...
it's a lot that go into it.
ATLAS: I really wouldn't be here
if I didn't believe that
he could win this fight.
And that in some ways, it's his destiny
to win the fight.
ROACH: Teddy's an announcer
on ESPN and um,
my guess is he's a good coach.
He's a good storyteller.
I mean, I like the story about the firemen,
and how they're not scared of fire.
It's kind of entertaining.
He knows he's on TV.
He knows when the red light's on him.
I think he likes acting.
BRADLEY: But I can tell you this.
He's a better teacher than Freddie is.
Freddie's not the brightest one of the bunch.
ATLAS: I should know when the pressure-- the light,
he wants to call it the light-- is on.
I better know when it's on.
I better know when it's time to say what needs to be said
to make a difference, to make sure that I'm just
not a passenger in a car that might crash
and might go off a freakin' cliff.
And at the end of the day, maybe the most important difference
between me and that fella you just talked about?
I'm not a guy that's gonna be taking selfies in the runway
before my fighter's going into the fight of the millennium,
where so much is on the line.
So, yeah, you think I care about what the freak that guy
that acted that way, that behaved that way,
that I care what he thinks of me?!
No!
I don't.
And I'm sorry.
Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org