Tim Bradley has sent a scathing message to a former world champion who returned to the ring last weekend.
Known by his moniker ‘Desert Storm’, Bradley had an impressive professional career of his own, where he became a world champion at light-welterweight and welterweight.
He racked up a number of legacy-defining victories throughout the course of his tenure, defeating the likes of Juan Manuel Marquez, Lamont Peterson, Ruslan Provodnikov and Manny Pacquiao to name just a few.
After he was beaten by Filipino icon Pacquiao in their trilogy bout, Bradley would announce his retirement from the sport just a couple of months later, shifting his focus to his career as an analyst and commentator.
Speaking on his own YouTube channel. Bradley shared a damning verdict on former WBA featherweight champion Ray Ford’s most recent performance against Puerto Rico’s Abraham Nova, stating in the title of his video that he looked like ‘a bum.’
“I just got done watching that Ford fight man, that Ford and Nova. Look, listen to me young fellas out there, especially the young brothers out there with all the skills, you gotta get more disciplined Ford, you looked terrible, talking about you need to look terrible to get the good fights, nah man, that’s a discipline problem bro, for real.
You got so much skills but guess what? You just trying to operate on your talent alone, that ain’t gonna get it done, that’s not gonna get you to the elite level, you talking about you wanna fight against Foster, I think Foster got the same problem you got.
Sooner or later you gonna lose, you gonna lose, you gonna have to figure it out, you gonna lose again I’m telling you right now, you gonna lose again because you not serious, you not focused man.”
Ford now campaigns at super-featherweight, having suffered the first defeat of his career to reigning WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball back in June of 2024.
The 26-year-old from New Jersey is now expected to make a push towards becoming a two-weight world champion, as he targets a showdown with fellow countryman and WBC super-featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster.
