By Frank Gaskins: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) is definitely on the fast track to become one of boxing’s next mega stars. At this stage in his career as early as it is, skill set wise he already seems to have all you could want in a fighter. Broner has the blazing hand speed with the foot speed to match, great foot work, exceptional defense, KO power in each hand, boxing IQ, ring generalship, showmanship and he talks big and walks even bigger.
Dare I say it, but it sounds like I just described undefeated pound for pound king Floyd “Money” Mayweather (though Money’s KO power doesn’t seem to be on display very often, he does have a 62% KO percentage). Since the Oscar De La Hoya fight, Mayweather has taken over boxing as the sports cash cow; this is FACT (I’m sure Pacquiao fans will call me a hater). Mayweather recently stated , “if I had Al Haymon backing me when I started I’d be a billionaire by now”. Well he may not be a billionaire, but he’d certainly be far more wealthy than he currently stands.
Most people seem to think that Mayweather piggy backed off of De La Hoya’s name to become a PPV attraction, I beg to differ. It was actually Mayweather’s idea for HBO to do the first “24/7”. Floyd wanted another avenue besides the press conference where he could trash his opponent, freely use his foul language and flash his money, knowing that he would gain two things, Fans and Haters. It didn’t matter to him whether he was loved or hated, either way they would tune in to watch him, I’m sure there are more people that buy his fights to see him lose that to see him win. It all translates to dollars; make sense? Now we have Mayweather 2.0 in Broner; this guy as hard as it is to believe, talks probably MORE than Floyd, he dances in the ring, raps on his way to the ring and once even asked his promoter Oscar De La Hoya to brush his hair…(Oscar did it). Personally I think it’s funny the things Broner does, but most fans and non-fans won’t think so, they will surely tune in hoping to see Broner take a loss. The thing is that Broner IS backed by Al Haymon early in his career, he also has Golden Boy Promotions as his promoter. All Broner has to do is keep winning, keep shining, keep talking big and keep backing it up and we may just see him changing his name from “The Problem to Adrien “Cash” Broner in the future.
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