By Dan Ambrose: 22-year-old WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (22-0, 18 KO’s) captured the World Boxing Organization title last Saturday night with an impressive 3rd round TKO of Vincente Rodriguez (34-3-1, 19 KO’s) at the U.S Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio.
With this win, Broner now wants to unifiy all of the 130 pound titles and then move up to the lightweight division to chase the top names such as Brandon Rios, Ricky Burns, Miguel Vazquez, Antonio DeMarco, Robert Guerrero and Juan Manuel Marquez.
Before Broner does that, he’s looking to knock off the current super featherweight champions Juan Carlos Salgado, Jorge Solis, Takashi Ochiyama and Takahiro Aoh. Those are all beatable fighters for a talent like Broner.
He’s made his last two opponents Rodriguez and Jason Litzau looked like overmatched amateurs. Broner’s handspeed and counter punching ability make him a very tough fighter to beat this point. He seems to emulate Floyd Mayweather Jr., who by the way was at ringside to watch Broner fight against Rodriguez last Saturday night in Cincinnati.
Broner needs better opposition to get fully recognized as special. It’s not enough that he’s dominating his opposition; he’s got to face the best fighters possible for him to become a pound for pound great. Broner is currently ranked #6 in the regular super featherweight rankings for The Ring, behind Takahiro Aoh, Solis, Roman Martinez, Juan Carlos Salgago, and Takashi Uchiyama.
That will likely change in the next year or two, depending on how long it takes for Broner to get the top champions to fight him in unification bouts. He might find it nearly impossible to unify the titles because the other promoters will likely be reluctant to let their cash cows get beaten by Broner and lose that revenue stream after their fighters are exposed.
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