'Dead broke' Timothy Bradley and wife Monica took big gamble

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'Dead broke' Timothy Bradley and wife Monica took big gamble that paid off

 

Dark thoughts rolled through Timothy Bradley's mind. The boxer was raised in Palm Springs, Calif., with a strong sense of right and wrong, but he also was raised to guard his family like an angry pit bull.

 

He'd quit his full-time job as a waiter at a Mimi's Cafe so he could concentrate on his fledgling boxing career. As he prepared to fight the most important fight of his life, he did so with enormous pressure on him. He'd given everything to become an elite fighter. He and his then-girlfriend, Monica, went all in. They bet everything they had that he'd be a success. Given that, a loss would be devastating. They weren't penniless, but they sure were close.

 

As Bradley left to fly to England for his first world title fight in 2008, the couple's bank account was a paltry $11.

 

"We were dead, dead, dead broke," Bradley said, laughing. "I had to win. We had no choice because we'd given everything we had to this and we were just about out of money."

 

These days, Bradley has no such financial pressures. He'll make a guaranteed $5 million to fight Manny Pacquiao for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title on June 9 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. If the fight does well on pay-per-view, Bradley has the ability to double that amount.

 

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