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[Newzz]

i haven't said it in a while but I said it again. I really enjoy the banter in here, even when you all are fighting amongst each other. I can honestly say you all know SOMETHING. Unlike twitter where you have folks who click a hashtag and all of a sudden they know everything.

'preciate it Ms. Jae


I've actually been thinking that all the brehs in here need to get together hopefully sometime in 2016 and fly down to a fight in Vegas (or any fight in any city) and catch a fight together. That would be

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

'preciate it Ms. Jae


I've actually been thinking that all the brehs in here need to get together hopefully sometime in 2016 and fly down to a fight in Vegas (or any fight in any city) and catch a fight together. That would be

 

[Newzz]

true but i know sistas who did even better n they throw them to the side.

i don't really wanna get into this shyt too deep cause its off topic .

We talking bout Bradley though. Every man is responsible for his own decisions, cant knock the next man for being loyal to someone who was loyal to him....regardless the race, it's love.


She held him down when dude was basically a scrub making pennies as a waiter lol

He'd quit his full-time job as a waiter at a Mimi's Cafe so he could concentrate on his fledgling boxing career.

He and his then-girlfriend, Monica, went all in. They bet everything they had that he'd be a success. Given that, a loss would be devastating. They weren't penniless, but they sure were close.

As Bradley left to fly to England for his first world title fight in 2008, the couple's bank account was a paltry $11.

"We were dead, dead, dead broke," Bradley said, laughing. "I had to win. We had no choice because we'd given everything we had to this and we were just about out of money."

After long discussions, Bradley and his girlfriend decided that he should focus 100 percent on boxing and survive solely on her salary.

Monica Manzo and Timothy Bradley were middle school friends who had reconnected after she became a divorced mother of two. She knew young, single men often weren't interested in single moms. But she knew, she said, that Timothy would be the one for her by the way he almost instantly accepted her children.

"It's rare you're going to find a 23-year-old who so willingly took on the responsibility of two children in a new relationship," Monica Bradley said. "But it was like, right away, he fell in love with those kids. He would play with them and just want to be with them."

What he wasn't doing, though, in those pre-Witter days was making much money for them. For a while, he was washing dishes at a Coco's restaurant before becoming a waiter at Mimi's, all the while training for his fight career.

He wasn't making much in any of his fights, and the expenses of fighting were enormous. It costs a lot of money to set up a proper training camp and hire sparring partners and pay trainers and cut men.

When Bradley was injured after a 2007 fight with Miguel Vazquez that raised his record to 21-0, it left him with a bank account perilously close to zero.

He talked about getting another job, but Monica didn't want him to give up his dream of becoming a successful boxer. She urged him to work on his rehabilitation and vowed to support him.

Timothy Bradley was raised with conviction and felt it wasn't right to take and not contribute. Because he was injured, he was focusing mostly on getting healthy. He led a few personal-training sessions on the side to generate income, but began to contemplate alternatives to make cash.

"As we were literally in the middle of that struggle to survive, I had the craziest thoughts about what I should do [to make money] to feed the kids," he said. "I can understand how for a lot of people who are really down on their luck, the whole criminal thing becomes appealing."

Bradley, though, resisted the evil impulses, knowing that it was not him. He believed in his talent and knew that if he could just hold on, they'd find a way to make it. He was desperate to earn income to support the woman he wanted to make his wife, who said she was just as eager to support him.

"We both agree that money is not the focus of our relationship and it never has been," she said. "We're not about money. Some people say, 'Oh, if only I had a ton of money, I'd be so happy.' But we believe money creates worries and problems. We just both felt that money would be the last thing that ever came between us. No matter what, we told each other that we'd never let money become a problem.

"It's not easy when you don't have a lot, but we both believed in each other and we knew we'd find a way."

Bradley eked out a win over Witter and began to fight for progressively bigger purses. The couple married on May 15, 2010, and had a child of their own.

Bradley kept winning and is now preparing for a career-defining fight. But he'll never forget those days not too long ago when he was all but penniless and Monica stood by his side.

They were a team in every sense of the word.

"I got real lucky with her," he said. "I know that. She was there for me when I needed her the most. Without her, none of this would be possible."

'Dead broke' Timothy Bradley and wife Monica took big gamble that paid off

Man, that's some REAL love right there breh and I can only commend him AND even moreso HER for believing in him and willing to follow him to the poor house if it came too it. That's a real bytch


ALOT of women would've said fukk that, you got a family now...we need to be making money.

She told him fukk that, I'll work and make the money for us...you just follow your dreams baby


That's exactly how my Wife is, and I dig women like that. No matter the race, size, whatever...she loved him, followed him, and believed in him and that's all a Man can really ask for.


Monica Bradley

 

[Newzz]

Yeah, I been thinking about it Tua. shyt, all of us in here always traveling or doing something...why not meet up and all catch the same fight and talk about it in person instead of online?


Hell, we can all go to a PBC card in Chicago, steal one of @ChocolateGiddyUp's shirts like every other person in Boxing does so we know we're gonna be stylin. Tell @mr. smoke weed & @#SOG_soldier to bring the Girl Scout Cookies so we feelin nice before the fight, and talk shyt in person during the match while throwing back some drinks

 

[yawn]

PED gonna give him that work

Nope

Diaz don't have the rep but watch peterson actually engage him on the inside and get dropped

Diaz by UD 12

I agree. I've written about this. Yes he's lead off shows but that's like a first responder in a crisis, you send them on out there and don't really hear too much after.

That's cause he's always injured

An injury cost him almost 2 years of his career, injured vs Diaz, slight injury vs Guerrero and he injured his right hand vs Collazo

You want him to leave but there's no reasoning behind it Jae
He gets pushed, had a hometown fight on ESPN and was paid more than what Rios and Alvarado were paid combined in their third fight

Fights with Bradley, Rios, Ali aren't nearly as good/big as fights with Porter, Maidana, Khan, Danny, Spence or Brook

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

:dahellsuit:

 

[Mook]

We talking bout Bradley though. Every man is responsible for his own decisions, cant knock the next man for being loyal to someone who was loyal to him....regardless the race, it's love.


She held him down when dude was basically a scrub making pennies as a waiter lol








Man, that's some REAL love right there breh and I can only commend him AND even moreso HER for believing in him and willing to follow him to the poor house if it came too it. That's a real bytch


ALOT of women would've said fukk that, you got a family now...we need to be making money.

She told him fukk that, I'll work and make the money for us...you just follow your dreams baby


That's exactly how my Wife is, and I dig women like that. No matter the race, size, whatever...she loved him, followed him, and believed in him and that's all a Man can really ask for.


Monica Bradley

IDK what you guys are talking about. He was 21-0.

Only a moron would tell him to quit.

She lucked the fukk up and also another reason you dont date single moms EVER

But she knew, she said, that Timothy would be the one for her by the way he almost instantly accepted her children.
"It's rare you're going to find a 23-year-old who so willingly took on the responsibility of two children in a new relationship," Monica Bradley said. "But it was like, right away, he fell in love with those kids. He would play with them and just want to be with them."

bytch was lookin for a father for her children before a husband

"As we were literally in the middle of that struggle to survive, I had the craziest thoughts about what I should do [to make money] to feed the kids," he said. "I can understand how for a lot of people who are really down on their luck, the whole criminal thing becomes appealing."

Dude was thinking of becoming a criminal to feed kids that werent his

 

[krackdagawd]

Nope

Diaz don't have the rep but watch peterson actually engage him on the inside and get dropped

Diaz by UD 12

you are clearly seeing something in Diaz I am not.

 

[Axum Ezana]

We talking bout Bradley though. Every man is responsible for his own decisions, cant knock the next man for being loyal to someone who was loyal to him....regardless the race, it's love.


She held him down when dude was basically a scrub making pennies as a waiter lol








Man, that's some REAL love right there breh and I can only commend him AND even moreso HER for believing in him and willing to follow him to the poor house if it came too it. That's a real bytch


ALOT of women would've said fukk that, you got a family now...we need to be making money.

She told him fukk that, I'll work and make the money for us...you just follow your dreams baby


That's exactly how my Wife is, and I dig women like that. No matter the race, size, whatever...she loved him, followed him, and believed in him and that's all a Man can really ask for.


Monica Bradley

true for bradley. i aint really talking bout bradley though. and it still goes deeper than what u posted. if u wanna continue u would have to pm.

im not continuing this but as always u have good points newzz..good shyt.

 

[Axum Ezana]

 

[Newzz]

IDK what you guys are talking about. He was 21-0.

Only a moron would tell him to quit.

He was 21-0....and still working as a waiter with $11 in his bank account breh.

Records dont = money. He wasnt making enough money, which is why even as an undefeated 21-0, he was still a full-time waiter. He made his career high purse, at the time, fighting against Witter for a Championship...$65k before taxes.

She lucked the fukk up and also another reason you dont date single moms EVER



bytch was lookin for a father for her children before a husband

She said that?


Sometimes yall have to realize that there ARE men out here that dont care about that "single mother" stuff that yall be talking about. Obviously, since they were friends already, Bradley knew she had kids and didnt mind, because he wanted her.


That's kinda how it works in real life breh.

Dude was thinking of becoming a criminal to feed kids that werent his

Gotta take care of his family


Sometimes those thoughts do cross your mind...I aint gonna even lie. When I was outta work, and job hunting was looking like a dead end, I had a thought or 3 about doing some stuff I would never do under normal circumstances. If you have kids, and yes...he married her and "her" kids are their kids now...you look at life differently than you do as a single man with no responsibilities.

 

[Axum Ezana]

smiley potential ?




this been posted? @arigoldbawse



u wanna get chopped down again by hyperman25's elite squad?

 

[TheNig]

Holy shyt. I think I may actually have the flu.

 

[Axum Ezana]

He was 21-0....and still working as a waiter with $11 in his bank account breh.

Records dont = money. He wasnt making enough money, which is why even as an undefeated 21-0, he was still a full-time waiter. He made his career high purse, at the time, fighting against Witter for a Championship...$65k before taxes.





She said that?


Sometimes yall have to realize that there ARE men out here that dont care about that "single mother" stuff that yall be talking about. Obviously, since they were friends already, Bradley knew she had kids and didnt mind, because he wanted her.


That's kinda how it works in real life breh.






Gotta take care of his family


Sometimes those thoughts do cross your mind...I aint gonna even lie. When I was outta work, and job hunting was looking like a dead end, I had a thought or 3 about doing some stuff I would never do under normal circumstances. If you have kids, and yes...he married her and "her" kids are their kids now...you look at life differently than you do as a single man with no responsibilities.

and nikkas got the nerve to hate on al.

 

[Mook]

He was 21-0....and still working as a waiter with $11 in his bank account breh.

Records dont = money. He wasnt making enough money, which is why even as an undefeated 21-0, he was still a full-time waiter. He made his career high purse, at the time, fighting against Witter for a Championship...$65k before taxes.





She said that?


Sometimes yall have to realize that there ARE men out here that dont care about that "single mother" stuff that yall be talking about. Obviously, since they were friends already, Bradley knew she had kids and didnt mind, because he wanted her.


That's kinda how it works in real life breh.






Gotta take care of his family


Sometimes those thoughts do cross your mind...I aint gonna even lie. When I was outta work, and job hunting was looking like a dead end, I had a thought or 3 about doing some stuff I would never do under normal circumstances. If you have kids, and yes...he married her and "her" kids are their kids now...you look at life differently than you do as a single man with no responsibilities.

Not really bruh. 65k before taxes is fire. If anything he was in trouble cause of her and those 2 kids.

21-0 im living in my parents basement till that big one comes. I mean right after that he got the wbc light welterweight title. Its a wrap b. thats atleast a quarter mill no matter what.

Then again, timothy aint the smartest tool in the shed.

He also said when he is on the vegan diet he feels superior over any athlete who gets into the ring with him because it gives him energy, and helps with his reflexes and balance.

This the same dude that does barrel rolls if he somehow gets whispered sweet nothings into his ear and still doing vegan diet wondering why he aint got power