Broner: I’m going to take over boxing in 2015

By Boxing News - 01/03/2015 - Comments

broner544By Dan Ambrose: #3 WBA, #4 WBC light welterweight contender Adrien Broner (29-1, 22 KOs) says he thinks he’s going to take over the boxing world in 2015 with a series of fights that will put him on the top of the sport.

Broner, 25, still doesn’t have an opponent picked out for his next fight date on March 7th in Cincinnati, Ohio. It’s got to be a good fighter for him to start making a move to become the sport’s top fighter, because his last two opponents, Carlos Molina and Emanuel Taylor, didn’t prove anything for Broner.

Sure, he won the fights, but he wasn’t impressive and neither were his opponents.

Broner’s career is still in a stall since his loss to Marcos Maidana in December of 2013. Broner says he would have won that fight had he not been knocked down in the 8th.

Unfortunately for him, he was knocked down, not once, but twice in the fight. Broner can say he would have won the fight had he been able to handle Maidana’s power, but the simple fact of the matter is he couldn’t handle his power and the chances are he wouldn’t in a rematch as well.

“In 2015, I’m going to take over boxing,” Broner said via . “If he [Maidana] didn’t beat me he would have never got that Floyd fight. I still got to beat his [expletive] though. If he didn’t catch me with that shot I didn’t see in the eighth round, I would not have lost that fight.”

Broner’s adviser Al Haymon probably won’t set him up with a fight against Maidana because it’s too dangerous of a fight, and the two of them are now fighting in different divisions. Haymon appears to be steering Broner towards a world title fight against one of the light welterweight champions.

It’s likely that Broner will wait out WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia until he moves up to 147 to campaign as a welterweight. If Garcia doesn’t move up a division then Broner will likely be moved in the direction of one of the other belts. Broner vs. Garcia is just not a fight that Haymon will look to make because it’s too risky for Broner, who suffers from a low work rate and a bad habit of laying against the ropes.

If Broner fails to find success at 140, then he’ll probably move back down to lightweight if he can still make weight for the division.



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