THE ART OF WARD SPECIAL LOOK: Tim Bradley Challenges Jake Paul to two for one Fight, Reveals Crawford Sparring Story

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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In this episode of The Art of Ward, Andre Ward sits down with Hall of Famer Tim Bradley live at the House of Boxing in San Diego. Bradley calls out Jake Paul AND his trainer J’Leon Love to a “two for one” fight in the same night—and reveals why he’s training at 5:30 AM to back it up. The two-division, five-time world champion also shares the untold story of discovering Terence Crawford’s greatness during a sparring session, the truths behind his trilogy with the legendary Manny Pacquiao, plus his incredible journey from being expelled in second grade to the Hall of Fame!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	Welcome back to another episode of the Art Award.
0:07.5	Today, my guest is a boxing brother.
0:09.9	He's a former colleague of mine.
0:11.6	One of the most outspoken voices in the game.
0:14.2	He's a two-division five-time world champion and the first ballot Hall of Fame.
0:19.1	I want to welcome to the show, Timothy Desert Storm Bradley. What's going on, baby? Man, we're at the House of Boxing in San Diego. Man, you live where a lot of people want to vacation. We come to San Diego. It's beautiful down here, and I appreciate you, you know, spending some time with this man. I've been, you know, you haven't been working for ESPN for a little bit of time.
0:38.2	We'll get into that.
0:39.2	But, man, you've been going to war with your phone, brother.
0:42.6	You'd be taking these walks in the neighborhood and you make these videos and you're aggressive, you're Tim.
0:51.5	That is raw and cut, but you speak in your truth. What made you start doing that?
0:56.5	You know what? Not being on ESPN. You got to have an outlet. Yeah, just have an outlet, man. Like,
1:01.5	boxing, I need it. You know, I need it, man. I'm nothing without it, Drake, for real. You know,
1:07.2	what kept me out of the ring was being on air, you know, on ESPN for eight years.
1:13.6	And now that we no longer on ESPN is like, I need to be able to speak and give my opinion.
1:18.6	You know, I've kind of got accustomed to being in a voice in boxing.
1:21.6	I feel like my voice is needed, just from a realist standpoint, you know, like a lot of people,
1:26.6	my delivery might not be what everybody like, but, you know, it's funny because when we were on air, we would say the same thing, but you would say it's so clean and so polished, and I just come out, hey, he needs to keep his day job, you know what I'm saying? That type of joint. So, but that was just it.
2:01.4	Just a channel, just an outlet just for me to be able to speak my mind and say what I want to say. So you just, you get some inspo. You start feeling something and then you just turn the camera on and just go for it. It's me and my farm. Yeah. That's it. It just, right here in me. Ain't, there ain't no special effects people. My channel is my channel.
2:02.4	No special effects.
2:04.0	No cameramen, none of that.
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