"Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic globule, from which one extracts what one needs." 
If you haven’t seen White Men Can’t Jump, then shame on you! And if you have seen this movie classic, then you totally understand how the quotable lines above sum up Timothy Bradley’s (30-0, 12 KO’s) razor-thin, bloody decision victory over Ruslan Prvodnikov (22-2, 15 KO’s).
Fist, I must acknowledge both men for treating boxing fans to an early fight of the year candidate. The back-and-forth action was absolutely scintillating.
@ESPNBoxing provides a nice synopsis of the fight on their unofficial scorecard. But I don’t need a scorecard to tell me who "won." Sure, based on the strictest interpretation of boxing scoring, Timothy Bradley threw more punches, landed more punches and won more rounds.
However, Ruslan Prvodnikov nearly knocked him down in round one and in round two, and finally dropped him in the 12th round. Each time, Bradley was badly hurt. Had Prvodnikov been he champion coming into this fight, and not the challenger, I suspect that he would have gotten the decision victory. But those are the breaks.
By no means was this a highway robbery in favor of Bradley, but to "para-quote" Rosie Perez’s famous lines above, "Sometimes when you (Bradley) win, you really lose. And sometimes when you (Provodnikov) lose, you really win…"
Even if you didn’t see the movie, you should now know what I mean.
