By Chris Williams: WBA World light welterweight champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner (31-2, 23 KOs) is not too happy about having been led on by Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) and then passed over for WBO 147lb champion Timothy Bradley (33-1-1, 13 KOs) for Pacquiao’s next and possibly final fight of his career on April 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Broner, 26, blames being passed over for the Pacquiao fight on his 84-year-old promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank, who he feels wanted to go in house by matching Pacquiao up with one of his own Top Rank fighters in Bradley rather than putting him in with a non-Top Rank fighter.
With Pacquiao fighting Bradley, there’s no sharing of the money with another promotional company.
Broner now says he’s going to get some easy money by fighting Mayweather Promotions fighter 35-year-old Ashley Theophane (39-6-1, 11 KOs) in his next fight.
people wanted to see me fight @MannyPacquiaoTR but BOB ARUM so greedy he wanted all the money in the house so he can Robb everybody LOL
— Adrien Broner (@AdrienBroner) December 30, 2015
“Haaaaaaa!!!!! They tricked y’all again faking like they wanted smoke with me knowing they got bag lungs,” Broner said on his social media site. “I was go [expletive] @MannyPacquiaoTR up!!! I’m a savage foreal I don’t give a [expletive] anybody can get it…..well it’s time to get some easy money …. Get ready Ashley Theophane LOL.”
Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz recently contacted Broner about him being the one to face Pacquiao on April 9th. Broner was up for the fight and interested in beating Pacquiao and sending him back to the Philippines with a loss so that he could start working as a politician if he won a seat in the senate in the May elections over there. However, Arum met with Koncz and Pacquiao, and the next thing you know, Arum revealed that Pacquiao was fighting Bradley instead of Broner. It worked out well for Arum, because Pacquiao is, once again, fighting one of his Top Rank stable fighters. If Pacquiao retires after this fight, then Arum will have had it real well with Pacquiao having fought a lot of Arum’s Top Rank guys during his time with the elderly promoter.
Broner vs. Pacquiao probably would have made more money than Pacquiao vs. Bradley 3. I can’t see that fight doing really well. It’s a played out fight. The first Pacquiao-Bradley fight, called “Desert Storm,” did 700,000 PPV buys on HBO in 2012. The rematch in 2014, called “Vindication,” brought in 800,000 PPV buys. I don’t know what they can call the third fight between Pacquiao and Bradley, perhaps ‘In house,’ will be lucky if it brings in over 400,000 buys. I think a Pacquiao-Broner fight is the far better fight than force feeding the boxing public a third fight between Pacquiao and Bradley. I’m not going to waste my money on Pacquiao-Bradley, because I’ve already seen them face each other twice and there is absolutely no reason for a third fight. It’s too bad Arum didn’t talk Golden Boy into matching Saul “Canelo” Alvarez against Pacquiao for April 9th, because I’d have gladly paid to see that one on HBO high definition pay-per-view so I could see every bit of blood and all the close ups for the eventual face down on the canvas knockout.
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