Timothy Bradley – Cub Swanson
It’s no chance occurrence that longtime UFC featherweight Cub Swanson has trained with two-division, multiple title winning boxing star Timothy Bradley, as the two fighters actually went to the same high school.
In fact, Swanson admits that he used to get caught bunking off school by Bradley’s own father, who was a security guard at the school.
The two friends have stayed in touch and been very supportive of each other’s career’s over the years, and have also trained and sparred with each other many times.
Swanson has admitted that Bradley’s boxing was just on another level from anyone he’s faced in MMA as you might expect from someone who was at one point ranked the No.3 pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
“I’ve done a lot better over the years, but in the very beginning I couldn’t even… I just stared at him,” Swanson once told Mike Swick. “I was trying to counter him and he’d just hit me with a jab and I’d be like,
‘F**k I didn’t even see that coming. Okay this time, I’m going to be ready and when it comes, I’m going to throw right over the top of it. Then, BOOM! Damnit! I didn’t see it again!’
