Bradley: 'I don't remember knockdowns'

For the first time three fights, Timothy Bradley hit the canvas against Manny Pacquiao.

And the Filipino ring icon scored a knockdown not once, but twice.

The first came when the American stumbled in the seventh round in what Tony Weeks ruled as a knocked down.

Pacquiao scored a more emphatic knockdown in the ninth round, leaving Bradley dazed with a series of left hands that sent the American fighter tumbling back.

So devastating were the hits that after the fight, Bradley admitted he did not remember the telling blows from Pacquiao.

"I don’t even remember man. I hate to say, I really don’t," he said.

Bradley won the first fight between the two men in controversial fashion in 2013, before Pacquiao avenged the defeat in 2014.

This time, Pacquiao left nothing to chance.

"I was looking for a knockout every round," Pacquiao said.

Bradley said that Pacquiao, who has announced his retirement after the fight, was better than ever.

"He was good, he was great, he was on point tonight," said Bradley,

"He was quicker, he was faster, he was stronger."

Top Rank's Bob Arum, who promoted the fight, agreed.

"Bradley was very courageous, but Manny was better than he'd been the first two times," said Arum. —JST, GMA News