Adrien “The Problem” Broner: Is he heading towards greatness?

By Rusty - 03/10/2015 - Comments

broner4561By Rusty Nate: THE PROBLEM is, I am confused surrounding any sort of buzz or excitement when it comes to former three division world champion Adrien Broner (30-1, 22 KOs), who recently defeated John Molina last Saturday night by a 12 round unanimous decision on the Premier Boxing Champions card on NBC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I am pretty open minded when it comes to young talent and the up and comers in boxing. Some take a while to really progress to great performances and others seem to just go unnoticed until they pull off that huge win that no one saw coming and suddenly their careers are propelled into the elite level superstar category.

Adrien Broner, now fighting in the light welterweight division and highly ranked, or the carbon copy as some thought of him a couple of years back, has not actually impressed me more so than any other relatively good skilled boxer coming up through the ranks. He seems to have earned more money already in his career than a lot of fighters that are more deserving and he has seemed to do that by having nothing more than a flawed copied style of fighting and a that has caused him to get paid excessively for a very average career so far.

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His style of fighting has been compared to Floyd Mayweather Jr because of his attempts to use his shoulder in defense. What the PROBLEM is for Adrien is that he does not have the awareness, footwork, reflexes, hand speed or boxing brain that Flloyd has and so he simply looks like a cheap knock off.

I am of the opinion that Adrien will certainly have upward of at least 5 defeats during his career, and unless he improves his foot speed and head movement substantially and very soon then a lot of those defeats will come by shattering  knockouts.

I dont understand how Adrien his poor attributes and attitude to propel himself to the level that he is at. He has done well for himself in fairness but it will all come crashing down i have no doubt!



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