Broner & Mayweather: Does Adrien have the good and the bad of the great Floyd?

By Nationvegas - 02/18/2013 - Comments

broner534By Rusty Nate: So after the weekend’s action I thought I would put pen to paper and just give an evaluation of Adrien Broner’s performance against Gavin Rees. It is no secret to anyone that Broner clearly modals his skills and boxing style around Floyd Mayweather Jnr.

Is that a bad thing? Not at all! He does it very very well and the weekend simply proved that even more so. It was certainly a better impression of Mayweather than Berto managed in his contest with Guerrero recently.

A lot of critics have speculated that Broner does not fight the full 3 minutes of every round. They seem to see that as a negative point in his style. Personally that to me is a great positive. A fighter that can fight for just 60 seconds a round and yet still dominate a pressure fighter like Rees in the way Broner did is definitely doing something right.

 How fast would the fight have been over had Broner decided to fight for 180 seconds a round?

What I did see in Broner for the first time in his career was that as well as possessing all the skill, speed and flare of Mayweather, with the addition of power of course, he also may share Mayweather’s one glaring weakness that has caused so much controversy in Floyd’s career. Dealing with the Elite Pressure fighters with fast hands.

Now I am not going to say this is set in stone. After all Broner did look incredibly relaxed fighting Rees on Saturday and so he could have been just fighting the fight boarder line lazy causing a few blips here and there. But the first 2 rounds saw Rees land several combinations to the head and body of Broner causing him to lose the first two rounds on the score cards.

I am thinking that maybe this is just a one off and Broner possibly just didn’t get started quick enough. However Rees is a relatively light puncher and vastly smaller physically than Broner yet looked to be overwhelming him with punch numbers in those first two rounds. Although never actually troubling Broner from a power point of view.

Mayweather has, as we all know, struggled in the past with fighters like De La Hoya, Castillo, Mosley (briefly) and Judah. All are fighters that throw a lot of punches in combinations with very quick hands.

Has Broner really inherited the full Mayweather package, weaknesses and all or was it just a lazy start? Time will tell.

In the meantime a great performance and the Burn’s fight should be a good one to watch.



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