By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner’s dad doesn’t see WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KO’s) being seriously interested in wanting to face Adrien in a unification match in 2013 despite Burns having said that he’d like to take that fight.
Broner’s dad said to Fighthype.com “Ricky Burns, we know you ran from us up to 135. We’re about to catch you at 135. Burns don’t want none. He can keep running. He’s a bum.”
Broner himself doesn’t see worried at all about beating up on Burns if the chance presents itself. But you got to wonder whether the fight will ever happen because the last time that Broner was trying to get a fight with Burns last year when Broner was the #1 WBO contender and Burns was the WBO super featherweight champion, Burns vacated his title suddenly and moved up in weight just at the time that Broner was set to fight him.
Yeah, we’ve already heard the excuses about Burns having problems making the super featherweight limit and all, but the timing of him doing this has a lot of boxing fans thinking that Burns ducked Broner rather than taking this dangerous fight. What makes me wonder is why did Burns choose that time to vacate the title? He could have done it before his fights against the easy opponents he faced at super featherweight.
Why did he wait until right when Broner was about to fight him before vacating. Burns defended his WBO super featherweight title against the following fighters: Andreas Evensen, Joseph Laryea and Nicky Cook. Those some soft opponents if you ask me.
As for Broner, he’s going to be taking on WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-2-1, 21 KO’s) on November 17th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It’s pretty much a given that Broner is going to destroy DeMarco and snatch up his WBC lightweight strap. DeMarco doesn’t have the frame to deal with what Broner is going to be bringing into the ring on November 17th, and I see him snapping DeMarco like a weak twig. It’s going to be too easy for Broner.
From there, Broner will be looking to fight Burns in a unification match in 2013. But like Broner’s dad is saying, he sees Burns running from Broner and never actually taking the fight. I sure hope he’s wrong, because I’d like to see Broner be crowned next year as the top lightweight in the entire division and he’s only to beat Burns, Miguel Vazquez and the winner of Richard Abril vs. Sharif Bogere fight to become the undisputed lightweight champion.
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