Pacquiao vs. Broner? Arum should make it happen

By Jon Ingram - 05/12/2014 - Comments

By Jon Ingram: Adrien Broner (28-1, 22 KO’s) has been calling out Manny Pacquiao, and saying he would like to fight him for over a year now. This should be an interesting fight for Pacquiao, and his promoter Bob Arum Arum should be licking his chops at the thought of a fight with Broner. Yet I read that Arum feels that Broner is not a treat to Pacquiao so he’s not interested in the fight.

Even though I agree that Broner has in my opinion 0 percent of a chance (NOT EVEN A PUNCHERS CHANCE) of beating Pacquiao, it should still happen. Okay, maybe 20%, but that would be max. If Arum had any thought that Brandon Rios would beat Manny, why not Broner? Of course it was because Pacquiao was coming off that knockout, but let’s be smart about this fight. Adrien Broner knows how to sell himself better than anyone in the sport not named Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Also with the lack of sales in the Pacquiao/Bradley 2 fight, this one would for sure sale more to Arum’s liking. Yes, Bradley is definitely the better boxer then Broner, but he’s a nice guy. He tried to be the villain, and talk smack to Pacquiao, but that wasn’t his style, and there wasn’t much spark leading up to the fight besides the controversy from long before. Broner on the other hand, was made to run his mouth and would sale himself against Pacquiao better than any opponent Manny has faced recently.

I’m sure everyone knows a showdown of the 2 best of this generation is not about to happen next in Mayweather and Pacquiao, so why not follow in my plan that Maidana did. Whoop on Floyd’s “little brother”. It led to Maidana getting a fight; it could possibly lead Manny to the same promise land before someone else does it. Everyone wants to know how Pacquiao would do against the shoulder roll. While it won’t justify how Pacquiao would look against Floyd, it adds to the imagination much more then we have right now.

I think this would be a fight where Pacquiao would get a stoppage by corner, referee, or TKO. Now I know that a lot of you will say,”Pacquiao hasn’t stopped anyone since Miguel Cotto” which is true but there’s reason to why I believe this. For one, Broner relies, boxing using counter punching and 1 or 2 hit pop shots about 85% of the fight. With the Amount of Punches Pacquiao throws, he would completely overwhelm and negate the shoulder roll that Broner has adopted from Mayweather and his 1 or 2 pop shots would not be enough back Manny off of him.

Also, Broner would have gotten destroyed by Paulie if he had any power. I had Paulie at the end with the win, as I felt AB didn’t do enough to dethrone a champion. To beat the champ it should have to be definite, or I think the champ gets the edge. The Fact that Pacquiao has twice the power of Paulie tells me that he would be light years ahead of Broner in any department of the fight. With Adrien Broner tactics, and the way he talked after he won his last bout let’s everyone know that Maidana didn’t humble him at all, and a lot of people would pay money to see Pacquiao attempt to shut him up for good. If Pacquiao was to completely destroy Broner, and embarrass him worse than Madaina did, what would be the excuse of Mayweather not wanting to take “revenge” the way he proclaimed he did for the way Maidana did his “little bro”?



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