Tim Bradley could be about to make a comeback to boxing at the age of 42, making it clear who he is ready to return to face.<\/p>\n
\u2018Desert Storm\u2019 seemingly has his sights set on a showdown with Jake Paul, as should Paul achieve the unthinkable on Friday night and beat Anthony Joshua<\/a>, former world champion Bradley has already put his name forward to share the ring with \u201cThe Problem Child.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul is attempting to cause arguably the biggest upset in boxing history when the novice takes on the 2012 Olympic gold medallist and former world heavyweight champion. The eight-round main event will be shown live on Netflix from the Kaseya Center in Miami, with three world title fights featured on the undercard.<\/p>\n Former world champion Bradley, who retired in 2017, has made it clear he is ready to fight not only Paul but also his trainer, J\u2019Leon Love, on the same night.<\/p>\n Bradley held world titles at super-lightweight and welterweight<\/a>, and claimed wins over Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez in his career. He has issued the extraordinary call-out on a return during an appearance on Andre Ward\u2019s All The Smoke<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n Bradley, who labelled Paul a \u201cfake,\u201d said:<\/p>\n \u201cYou think it\u2019s a game? I ain\u2019t playing. I\u2019m not playing with you. I\u2019ll bust him up and his trainer. Two-for-one. I\u2019ll fight you and Jake Paul on the same night.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m looking at his [Love\u2019s] career and I\u2019m watching him fight and I\u2019m like, \u2018I can beat this bum.\u2019 I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s 175lbs \u2014 I\u2019ve fought bigger guys than that my entire career.\u201d<\/p>\n Love last laced up the gloves in 2021, securing an eight-round points win over Marcus Oliveira. The 38-year-old\u2019s career-best victory came against Marco Antonio Periban in 2014, but step-ups to world level against Peter Quillin and David Benavidez both ended in defeat.<\/p>\n In 2013, Love was at the centre of controversy when a disputed win over Gabriel Rosado was overturned to a no contest after he failed a drug test, having tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide. He received a six-month suspension and was fined $10,000.<\/p>\n Bradley also revealed he received a call from Love outlining how a fight with Paul could materialise.<\/p>\n \u201cHe called me up and was like, \u2018You gotta go through me first.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s easy. I\u2019ll go through you \u2014 but when you send the contract, make sure you\u2019ve got him [Paul] added on the back end of it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Bradley never competed above 147lbs during his career, but on Friday night Paul is expected to weigh in above 200lbs in his bid to overcome Joshua, who can weigh no more than 245lbs after agreeing to a contract stipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley could be about to make a comeback to boxing at the age of 42, making it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-351438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}