Miguel Diaz says that Manny Pacquiao should go right after Tim Bradley

Pacquiao vs Bradley Live Stream - Late last year, well-respected trainer and cut man Miguel Diaz took on the challenge of trying to find a way to defeat unbeaten junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley. Fighting on the undercard of the third Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez encounter on November 12th inside of the MGM Grand, Diaz was working the corner of faded former champion and Cuban southpaw Joel Casamayor, who he had briefly been training in Las Vegas ahead of the bout.

Things didn’t work out too well for Diaz on that night, however, as Casamayor put forth a listless effort against Bradley and failed to mount an attack or show any kind of initiative during the contest. After nearly eight one-sided rounds, and seeing that Bradley was beginning to turn up the heat, a merciful Diaz opted to throw in the towel to signal the fight’s end.

Looking back on that evening, Diaz admits he had a much different plan in mind.

“Our strategy was to make Casamayor bring the fight to him immediately,” Diaz would tell me recently. “Countering didn’t exist for that fight, you have to go forward. But unfortunately, Casmayor, with little training and little time, he didn’t even have the desire to do it.”

But the simple fact that it took so long for Bradley to get warmed up against the 40-year old Casamayor told Diaz a lot.

“I don’t know if it was [trainer] Joel Diaz who was telling him ‘Take it easy, don’t put no pressure on him’ or if it was Bradley respecting the name of Casamayor,” said Diaz. “It took eight rounds for me to stop the fight. Actually it took seven rounds for him to really open up on a guy who would have been knocked out in the first or second round. And this told me the mentality of Bradley. He doesn’t have that kind of killer instinct with the guy on a top level.”

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