Can Timothy Bradley Beat Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and Amir Khan?

WBO light welterweight champion “Desert Storm” Timothy Bradley successfully defended his crown and captured the WBC light welterweight title with a 10th round technical decision victory over Devon Alexander Saturday night at the Silverdome in Michigan.

Bradley (27-0-0-1, 11 KOs), a native of California who Ring Magazine rates as the No. 9 pound-for-pound boxer in the world, wounded Alexander (21-1, 13 KOs) with a series of accidental head-butts over the course of the bout.

The ringside doctor halted the fight after gory gashes on Alexander’s right and left eyes rapidly worsened.

Ultimately, Alexander required a total of six stitches to close the two nasty lacerations.

Dr. Peter Samet said he asked Alexander to open his left eye three times and he couldn't do it.

"I feared temporary nerve damage, so I recommended stopping the fight," Samet said.

Like a clown pocket, the talented Bradley refused to acknowledge his win was flimsy and he belittled Alexander’s abilities.

"I'm ruthless," said Bradley, 27, an orthodox fighter from Cathedral City, California. "I'm reckless. If that's the best in the world, that's weak.”

There is zero debate that Bradley is a very solid prizefighter and his skills in the squared circle are readily apparent to any genuine boxing observer.

Nevertheless, Alexander is categorically not “weak.”

"He wasn't hitting me clean," said Alexander, 23, a southpaw from the gang and drug-infested Hyde Park neighborhood of north St. Louis. "I thought I was ahead in the fight."

HBO has a rematch clause that could mandate a rematch between Bradley and Alexander.

"I want a rematch with Timmy Bradley," Alexander said.

However, Bradley is determined to secure a fight with Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If “Desert Storm” is unable to arrange a contest with Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) or Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs), he will apparently focus on WBA super lightweight champion Amir Khan.

"I would love a chance with Floyd Mayweather," Bradley said. "I think I've got to take Amir Khan out next, then there will be no doubt who the best 140-pounder is in the world."

Bradley would be utterly massacred by either Pacquiao or Mayweather.

Conversely, a Bradley versus Khan (24-1, 17 KOs) battle would truly be intriguing.

Khan, who at 17 in 2004 became the youngest British Olympic medalist ever when he won a silver at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens, is an enormously gifted prizefighter.

Still, Bradley’s performance this past weekend doesn’t warrant a lucrative bout against Pacquiao, Mayweather or Khan.

"I couldn't see, so they had to stop the fight," Alexander said.

Alexander is more than deserving of a rematch with Bradley once he can actually “see.”