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should be a great night of fights.. especially excited to see Lomachenko, he's incredible to watch.

Bradley/Rios should be a war.

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excellent fight from bradley and lomachenko. lomachenko was good as always, the opponent don't know him but he was not at the same level as lomachenko, lomachenko smart, accurate moves alot.

Now bradley, he was very good, accurate, I was sometimes confused by the advice given by teddy atlas, but bradley showed he was powerful and the punch to the solarplex ended it, brandon was good but just not the same as he used to be and he is a brawler, so I think even if he was his old self bradley would have won the movement, the boxing and jabbing and the combos definitely which i loved the most.

but a good night of boxing, I was scared maybe brandon might luckily connect with bradley, but that never happened no opportunities, bradley just doing his thing, I also noticed the obvious of the side step with weave under the right punch of the opponent to return back with a right hook, good idea but never did see it connect much. but enjoyed the fight.

ya that didn't happen (rios lucky connect with bradley) because Bradley's defense and movement were much improved. He barely got sloppy. Normally he gets into these ugly slug fests, punching with no defense. I don't know if it was Atlas or what but, he basically fixed that in this fight, which was a very important weakness in his game IMHO. On the inside he kept his head on one side of Rios; very hard for Rios to hit him with any power on the inside. The biggest issue I saw with Bradley was when he "backed up" and kept his hands down. He always does this & he needs to fix it ASAP. He's lucky he didn't get caught backing out with his hands down or it would have been a massive problem.

From that one fight, it seems that Bradley / Atlas are a perfect match for each other. Absolutely loved the instruction from Atlas in the corner & Bradley's receptiveness to it.

To me, Rios looked the same as he always does. I really didn't see any decline. This is similar to what happened when he faced Pacquiao; Rios is better in slugfests. Pac & Bradley both simply outboxed him. It sounds like a good thing for him to retire though, you can't "lose that fire" and keep boxing, that is when it becomes very dangerous.

Oh I also loved Bradley's side-step move with the body shots/hooks. Reminds me very much of Pacquiao & Lomachenko, they both do that move alot. It was really effective.




Lomachenko looked great, but almost bored in there. People are going to need to step up and fight him. It definitely reminded me of GGG in there facing "subpar" opponents.. Instead of just ending things early, they let it go on a little longer to get some more rounds in and give potential opponents some hope.. HEH!