The challenger ruslan Provodnikov, in the first round, which culminated with bradley tasting the canvas, the fall was not ruled a knockdown, but provodnikov did not let up having bradley at times out on his feet while laying on the ropes, bradley would not quit, he showed the heart of a champion, and a chin made of granite, absorbing provodnikov's shots, returning fire to the russian's body, slowing

him down, allowing bradley to shoot upstairs when provodnikov felt a solorplex shot coming, bradley was then again over powered in the final round, and dropped in the closing seconds, once again on a

top rank card the final scores drew boo's and was welcomed by empty beer cups throw into the ring, the scores where 114-113, 114-113, 115-112 all for Tim Bradley