Boxing: Bradley extends winning run

LAS VEGAS: Timothy Bradley remained undefeated with an eighth-round stoppage of Cuban Joel Casamayor. The referee halted the fight with one second remaining in the eighth round after Bradley landed a series of blows that forced Casamayor to take a knee, the third time he had put the 40-year-old down in the fight. Bradley kept his World Boxing Organization junior welterweight crown and improved to 28-0 with his 12th stoppage inside the distance while Casamayor fell to 38-6 with one drawn. Rather than take a deal to fight England’s Amir Khan in what would have been a unification showdown for the undisputed world junior welterweight crown, Bradley opted to fight Casamayor.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 14^th,  2011.