Is Mayweather, Broner, Ward and Deontay as good as people think?

By A punchers chance - 06/05/2013 - Comments

mayweather464By A punchers chance: Floyd Mayweather, Adrien Broner, Andre Ward, Deontay Wilder. America once had a proud history in boxing. Not any more in my opinion.

All the above named fighters are good and at some point great. For instance, Floyd “Money” Mayweather. What boxer who’s heart is all for boxing calls himself money? Sugar Ray Leonard. Don “The Cobra” Curry and “The Hit Man” Tommy Hearns. Fighters who wanted to be the best, not just earn the most.

The way I see it, Mayweather since the Arturi Gatti fight has cherry picked his way to pound for pound No 1 by beating shot and over the hill fighters. Remember when Mayweather beat Oscar De La Hoya on a split decision in 2007. Oscar first won a world title 13 years previous to that, and was an aging fighter. Mayweather fought an older Shane Moseley, who might have beaten him if it had been five years earlier. What about Mayweather’s win over Carlos Baldomir?

The Mayweather who beat Diego Corales was a great fighter. The Mayweather who found excuse after excuse to avoid a prime Manny Pacquiao is not number 1.

Adrien Broner, a talent but not a proven fighter against quality opposition; a boxer who doesn’t even have his own identity. Paulie Malignaggi called Broner a “Baby Floyd” Mayweather clone, which kind of says it all. Broner’s last fight was against an 80-1 outsider Gavin Rees, not because Broner is that great but Rees is that bad.

WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward is a good fighter but very boring and an uninteresting fighter, a fighter who bores me to tears. For supposedly being pound for pound #2, he can’t even sell out in his home country. And for Ward’s rant after the Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler II war about America being the place to be. I’m guessing that the average American doesn’t even know Ward. I think Froch and Kessler would sell out better in Ward’s back garden in Oakland, California. And remember it was an injured Froch and it was a close fight.

Unbeaten American heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (28-0, 28 KO’s) now has people thinking he’s a world beater after he stopped Audley Harrison in one round last April. Deontay didn’t KO Audley; he stopped him and whatever any other writer tells you, British heavyweight David Price knocked Harrison out. For all Wilder’s concussive power he could only put him down. Hopefully Wilder will have his first meaningful fight in his next one. The first one since the 2008 Olympics.



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