Rees to fight for another world title before end of 2013, says Hearn

broner888By Scott Gilfoid: Gavin Rees’ promoter Eddie Hearn is confident that Rees will be getting another world title shot by the end of 2013 against one of the lightweight champions. Hearn says Rees will be back in the United States fighting because they were so impressed with his performance in getting stopped in the 5th round last Saturday night by WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner on HBO television.

Hearn said to Sky Sports “Gavin’s performance won him many admirers in America. He is a true warrior and we have already been approached about further fights in the U.S in early summer…the plan is to pick up another world title shot before the end of 2013.”

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Hearn doubts Burns vs. Broner fight will ever happen

broner556By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for Gavin Rees, doubts that the management for WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KO’s) will agree to fight a unification bout with WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s), if Burns gets past IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vazquez on March 16th in London. While Hearns thinks Burns would take the fight with Broner, he has doubts whether Burns’ people will let Burns face Broner because of how difficult a fight it would be for Burns.

Hearn thinks Burns’ people will simply price him out of the fight by asking for too much money rather than flat out saying no to the fight. Hearn just sees Broner as too good for any lightweight in the division.

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Rees’ views on Broner vs. Burns fight

burns7By Steven Ocallaghan: So I see after the fight that took place in Atlantic City New Jersey last Saturday night, Gavin Rees, who put up a game but ultimately tame performance against WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner has now stated that he doesn’t think that WBO lightweight Champ Ricky Burns stands any chance against Broner.

Let’s get some facts here. Rees isn’t even Number 1 in Britain let alone the world. Burns is 1 in Britain, The Commonwealth and Europe and rated 3rd best in the lightweight division. Rees judges his decision on sparring. After sparring with Burns he has decided that Broner is to fast and hits harder. I won’t deny Broner hits faster and harder but Burns is physically stronger. He is no slouch himself and has a great defense. Burns will out-muscle Broner unlike the 5’4″ Rees.

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Broner & Mayweather: Does Adrien have the good and the bad of the great Floyd?

broner534By Rusty Nate: So after the weekend’s action I thought I would put pen to paper and just give an evaluation of Adrien Broner’s performance against Gavin Rees. It is no secret to anyone that Broner clearly modals his skills and boxing style around Floyd Mayweather Jnr.

Is that a bad thing? Not at all! He does it very very well and the weekend simply proved that even more so. It was certainly a better impression of Mayweather than Berto managed in his contest with Guerrero recently.

A lot of critics have speculated that Broner does not fight the full 3 minutes of every round. They seem to see that as a negative point in his style.

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Rees: Broner is too good for Ricky Burns

broner333By 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.

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Broner is a Mayweather Jnr in the making

broner56By 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.

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Hearn: There was nothing Rees could have done to beat Broner

broner874By 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.

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Rees: Broner’s power stunned me

broner001By 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.

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Broner: As long as HBO keeps paying me to fight lightweights, I’m going to milk this cow

broner53By 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.”

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Jeff Mayweather: Broner will take over for Floyd Jr. and become Boxing’s next star

broner92By 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.

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