De La Hoya: Broner would take Juan Manuel Marquez no problems

By Boxing News - 02/16/2013 - Comments

broner555By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions would readily agree to a fight between his fighter WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) and Juan Manuel Marquez if Marquez were okay with facing Broner at 135. De La Hoya says he’d make that fight, and he seems Broner taking the 39-year-old Marquez.

De La Hoya said to thaboxingvoice.com “I think it would be a great fight for Broner. Broner’s not going to duck anybody. He’s going to want to go after the best…A fight between Broner and Marquez would be huge, but it would be no problem for Broner [to beat Marquez].”

That would be a great fight to make, and it would be one that boxing fans would be interested in seeing in high numbers. With Marquez no longer interested in facing Manny Pacquiao any longer, it would be a much better fight for him to face Adrien Broner than it would be for him to take on someone like Brandon Rios or Tim Bradley.

Those are probably the ones Top Rank promoter Bob Arum would be looking to put Marquez in with him if he weren’t able to persuade him to face Pacquiao in a 5th fight in September.

Marquez probably won’t be interested in facing Broner, though, because his fighting style is too much like Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Marquez was badly beaten by Mayweather four years ago in 2009. For Marquez to get back in the ring with a Mayweather clone like Broner, it would take a lot for Golden Boy to make this fight.

It’s a fight that the boxing public would likely have more interest in seeing than a Marquez-Rios fight, but it’s not one that would likely interest Marquez too much because of the danger involved for him. Broner would have to be the favorite due to his pinpoint accuracy, youth, defensive skills and his Mayweather fighting style.



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