By Allan Fox: Unbeaten Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) will step up two divisions this Saturday night to face WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (32-4, 7 KO’s) on Showtime at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Malignaggi will be making his second title defense of his World Boxing Association title that he captured last year with a 9th round TKO win over then champion Vyacheslav Senchenko in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Broner, 23, has been anointed by some to be the next Floyd Mayweather Jr., but he’s still not faced the kind of quality opposition necessary to tell you whether he can live up to that praise.