By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions wasn’t too happy about Adrien Broner’s post-fight comment last Saturday night in an interview with Showtime in which Broner used coarse language in making a remark about how he had beaten Carlos Molina. De La Hoya now says he’d like to find someone that can beat the 24-year-old Broner. The WBC has already suspended Broner from their rankings for his comment, and they’re waiting for an apology from him.
“What are we going to do with Adrien Broner? I didn’t like what he said and at the moment I was shocked,” De La Hoya told Fightnews. “What we can do is find someone to beat him in the ring and hopefully beat him soon.”
It might not be easy for De La Hoya to find someone to beat Broner in the ring, because his manager Al Haymon is the one who picks out his opponents, and it’s not likely that Haymon is going to have Broner face anyone that has a good chance of beating him anytime soon. Broner’s fighting in the 140lb division now, but he seems content to wait out WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia until he vacates his two titles and moves up to the welterweight division to campaign at that weight.
Broner then will be able to slide on in and fight the likes of Viktor Postol or Selcuk Aydin for the vacant WBC strap. It’s next to impossible to imagine Broner fighting Lucas Matthysse or Lamont Peterson. Those guys would have too much of a chance at beating Broner, and it’s doubtful that Haymon will let Broner take one of those guys on and risk losing again. Matching Broner up against little Carlos Molina was a brilliant move by his management because Molina didn’t have the power to worry Broner even though he hit him plenty of times in the fight. If Molina had power like Matthysse or Maidana, Broner would have been in a world of hurt last Saturday night.
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