Adrien Broner
By Scott Gilfoid: Gavin Rees (37-2, 18 KO’s) took a beating last Saturday night in a 5th round TKO loss to the talented WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Now that Rees is out of the way, Broner is targeting another UK fighter, this one WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KO’s).
Rees has spent time sparing with Burns in the past, and after facing Broner last Saturday night, Rees doesn’t give Burns any chance of beating Broner.
By Babatis Banda: Looking at WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) fight, you will not miss the semblance to Floyd Mayweather junior’s style. So far, he is the only fighter that has come close, style-wise to the great P4P king. Not only is he talented like Floyd, he is proving to be a mouth-full as well. While I find nothing wrong with the kind of brush-talk that Broner engages in, I hope that just like Floyd, he also lives up to his hype each time he fights and so far, so good.
There is no doubt that Broner is a budding star. It is going to be very difficult to steal his shine just like that. This is now the moment for haters who have no regard for talent. The usual sadism has quickly shown its ugly face in the face of Broner’s recent and impressive successes.
By Scott Gilfoid: British promoter Eddie Hearn realized early on last Saturday night that his boy Gavin Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO’s) was in a hopeless situation in his unwinnable fight against WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s).
Hearn saw that Broner was just going to be too strong, too talent, and too fast for his fighter Rees, and he was happy when Rees’ trainer Gary Lockett made the decision to have the fight stopped in the 5th round shortly after Rees had been dropped by a vicious left hand body shot by Broner.
Lockett could have kept Rees out there, but the way that Broner was dominating him there really wasn’t any point in leaving him out any longer.
By Scott Gilfoid: Gavin Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO’s) was literally in awe of the amazing power of WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) after being knocked out by him in the 5th round on Saturday night. Rees later said he’d never been hit like that before in a fight, and he was impressed and hurt at the same time.
Rees said “I knew he hit hard, but his power just stunned me…He’s the best I’ve ever been in with.”
Just so people know, Rees has sparred with WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns several times in the past, so when Rees is saying that Broner is the best fighter he’s ever been in with, he’s obviously referring to even in his training as well.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) says he doesn’t see any reason for him to move up to 140 and 147 to get bigger fights, if HBO will keep paying him good cash to beat up on lightweights like he did last night when he whipped Gavin Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO’s) by a 5th round TKO.
Broner said after the fight, “Everybody’s so anxious for me to go up when I just got on the scale with a Sprite [soda] just yesterday. So I make so comfortable, I’m sorry to say, but I’m a legal bank robber. I just robbed a bank tonight. As long as HBO keeps paying me to fight these lightweights…I’ve never been on a farm, but milking a cow real good.”
By Scott Gilfoid: Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr., is completely sold on the talent of WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s), and he believes he’s got the goods to take over for Floyd Jr. when he hangs up his gloves in the future.
Jeff told hustleboss.com “I think Broner is the next major star in boxing. The second Floyd exits, Broner will be the one to fill those shoes. The kid is very talented, has charisma, has flare. Sometimes he’s a little over the top, but he’s still young.”
I don’t see Broner as being over the top. He’s just telling the truth, and that’s sometimes hard for his inferior opponents to handle. I’m sure if he blew smoke up his opponents’ backsides people would make less of a fuss about his cockiness, but then he’d be lying to people and that’s not what Broner is about.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) could get a quick turn around and be on the May 4th fight card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Boxrec.com has Broner scheduled for the May 4th card, which is supposed to be headlined by Floyd Mayweather Jr. against a still to be determined opponent.
Having Broner on the undercard will make the card a huge one with Mayweather, Canelo and Broner packing a 1-2-3 money punch on pay per view.
Broner demolished Gavin Rees last night by a 5th round TKO at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After the fight, Broner said “I want to get out of the cycle of fighting two fights per year. I’d like to fight 10 fights per year if I could.”
By Scott Gilfoid: Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) is starting to realize the responsibility that is resting on his shoulders now that he’s on the verge of taking over Boxing given that Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are both on their last legs in terms of fighting at a high level.
Broner understands that it’s going to be him that carries the torch when those two stars creep into retirement in the near future, and he’ll be the only pay per view star the sport has to offer.
Broner said “There are high expectations for me to take over boxing after Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao hang up the gloves.”
By Scott Gilfoid: Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) says he’s open to fighting Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa in the future, but he has conditions for a fight with Gamboa. Broner wants to make sure Gamboa to be tested for performance enhancing drugs to where he’s clean before he’ll agree to fight him. As for Rios, Broner is leaving that fight up to his promoters to make.
Broner said at the post-fight press conference last night “Yuriorkis Gamboa is fighting PEDs [performance enhancing drugs]. I don’t want to hear about Yuriorkis Gamboa. Tell him to go get his piss clean, and then he can come talk to Adrien Broner. Other than that, he’s done. If Brandon Rios wants to fight me, we can fight. I don’t make my fights. I fight whoever they put in front of me.”
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) says he felt like the left hand that he dropped Gavin Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO’s) last night was a shot that went right through the Welsh fighter in the 5th. Broner says he really hit him hard with that body shot, and felt it with his hand.
Broner said “He [Rees] was ready to go in 3 or 4. I went back to my corner and told Mike [Stafford] he has two rounds in him, and my prediction was right always. I felt like I punched right through his back. Don’t you see it? I felt like I punched through his spine. It was a hard shot. The kid was good…he was good.”