{"id":909835,"date":"2026-09-26T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909835\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:36:12","slug":"tim-bradley-delivers-free-money-verdict-on-shakur-stevenson-vs-pacquiao-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909835\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley delivers ‘free money’ verdict on Shakur Stevenson vs Pacquiao fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Bradley has accused Shakur Stevenson<\/a> of avoiding a world champion and, instead, pursuing a much easier fight against Manny Pacquiao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the 47-year-old Pacquiao is a far cry from his former self, despite battling to a draw against then-WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios in July 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n

In doing so, the Filipino legend proved he can still compete to a certain extent but, more than likely, would fall drastically short against a truly elite-level fighter.<\/p>\n

Most would therefore consider him an almighty underdog against Stevenson, who became a four-division world champion by dethroning Teofimo Lopez<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Several months later, the American ended up signing with Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing, but is yet to announce a date, location or opponent for his next outing.<\/p>\n

According to various reports, however, Stevenson is now angling to face Pacquiao on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n

Reacting to this potential showdown for December 11, Hall of Famer Bradley said on his YouTube channel<\/a> that, like Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis, Stevenson is starting to become overly selective with his opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole generation [of fighters is] straight up soft. I\u2019m thinking you [Stevenson is] growing some big balls \u2013 you want to face [WBA world super-lightweight] Gary Antuanne Russell.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, you can beat him. But guess what? You want to fight him at 135 or 132[lbs], probably. You not willing to leap out and test your damn self.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou used to talk so much trash about Tank, but you\u2019re turning right into Tank Davis. This dude is literally trying to make a fight happen just with Manny Pacquiao. Nobody likes this s**t \u2013 Manny Pacquiao [is] way over the damn hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley went on to say that Pacquiao is no longer a mainstream attraction, probably doing under 200 thousand pay-per-view buys when he fought Barrios, while Stevenson just sees this as a shot at \u201cfree money\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley has accused Shakur Stevenson of avoiding a world champion and, instead, pursuing a much easier fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-909835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909835","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=909835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}