Tim Bradley and Teddy Atlas can provide a lot of challenges for Manny Pacquiao. (USATSI)

Tim Bradley has heard the commotion.

He knows that his most recent victory -- a ninth-round stoppage of Brandon Rios, who’d never before failed to finish a fight -- has been labeled as much a triumph for new trainer Teddy Atlas in the corner as it has been for Bradley himself in the ring.

And he’s well aware that one of Atlas’ previous clients, ex-heavyweight champion Michael Moorer, has frequently gone public with a claim that Atlas was a bit too comfortable in the spotlight after Moorer won the crown from Evander Holyfield in 1994.

But, Bradley says, if that’s the biggest problem he’s got after Saturday night’s fight with Manny Pacquiao, he’ll be just fine with it.

“I don’t care if Teddy gets the credit. It doesn’t matter,” he told CBS Sports. “I just want to get that W and that is all that matters to me. The credit and everything, that will come. Me, Teddy or whoever. If I win the fight, I win the fight. I’m happy. We win, we done it. I don’t care who gets the credit.”

The date at the MGM Grand will mark Bradley’s second professional outing with Atlas, whom he hired after parting ways with longtime trainer Joel Diaz last year.

Atlas had worked with Moorer and Mike Tyson, among others, but had been spending most of his recent time establishing himself as a commentator on ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” series.

Bradley was eager to hand himself over, though, and the first go-round against Rios not only resulted in the convincing win, but indeed another star turn for Atlas thanks to a between-rounds speech in which he implored his new charge to think like a fireman.

“The heat doesn’t bother us,” Atlas screamed.

“We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.”

Bradley, who’d beaten 10 world champions -- including Pacquiao -- in an 11-year pro career without Atlas, nevertheless insists that the addition has prepared him for even greater conquests.

He defeated Pacquiao by an almost universally panned split decision in 2012, then dropped a clear-cut unanimous decision upon meeting him again in April 2014. He’s fought three times since, getting a draw against Diego Chaves that most suggested was a win, then defeating Jessie Vargas and Rios.

Rios, incidentally, had gone 12 rounds with Pacquiao in 2013.

“I just needed the right tools to get to that next level and I think that I will have them now. I truly do think that I have them now,” Bradley said. “I’m very confident in this fight. I am more prepared now than ever before. More prepared now for everything that Manny Pacquiao does now. I think I have more confidence and more self-belief than ever before going into this third fight. And that comes from Teddy, it does. It truly does.

“I am just super calm right now because I know what I am here to do. It’s not personal, there’s no grudge or anything like that toward Pacquiao for what happened the first time or second time. It is just business now, just going out there and doing what I trained to do and taking care of business -- and that is about being a smart monster out there.”

And while Pacquiao’s legacy -- thanks to world titles in seven weight classes -- is secure no matter what happens this weekend, Bradley concedes that he’s fighting for how he’ll be perceived a generation from now.

He turned pro in 2004 and won his first title -- at 140 pounds -- in 2008.

He defended five times before rising to welterweight and shocking Pacquiao in their first match, then defended twice before dropping the return bout. With a victory in No. 3, he said, historians will be forced to recall him not only as a successful fighter, but one who took down an icon.

“I want to be remembered as a legendary fighter. That is important to me. I want to live on,” Bradley said. “He is the guy that I definitely need to beat convincingly. Not to be in the Hall of Fame but to be talked about and remembered for years. Because anytime they mention Manny Pacquiao’s name they are going to have to mention Timothy Bradley’s name.”

As for how specifically to pull it off, it again falls on the shoulders of Atlas.

Pacquiao himself told CBS Sports he views the third match, because of the trainer’s arrival, as “not a continuation of a series but a fight against a different opponent."

Similarly, Bradley has no concerns about being too familiar to Pacquiao, because of the physical, mental and strategic transformations that have occurred since they last met.

“I won’t be in there swinging all wild and crazy like I did the first couple of fights,” he said.

“I’ll be more tamed and more put together and solid in areas I haven’t been in a long time. I will be solid and a more complete rounded fighter and smart. Just a super smart monster. Punching from the right position, getting the right angles. Being defensive if I have to, moving when I have to. Doing the right things all the time and making complete 100 percent focus all the way through the fight. 

“No clowning around, no playing on the ropes, none of that stuff.  It’s going to be complete focus all the way through 36 minutes and I can be remembered for the rest of my life, I can be remembered in the history of boxing for life.”