Broner needs Uchiyama and Burns

By Boxing News - 03/12/2012 - Comments

Image: Broner needs Uchiyama and BurnsBy Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions are looking for an interesting opponent to put the talented Broner in with for his next fight after he easily took care of top WBO contender Eloy Perez by stopping him in the 4th round last month on February 25th in a huge slaughter in Saint Louis, Missouri on HBO.

Broner, 22, needs better opposition than this and my list for him to face next would be WBA World super featherweight champion Takashi Uchiyama (18-0, 15 KO’s) or WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns. Either one of those guys would be good, Uchiyama, 32, is the much more interesting fight because he’s got major power and really comes to fight. He doesn’t run and doesn’t hold on any time his opponents get near him. The guy is a warrior and a fight between him and Broner would be big in a major way in the boxing world.

As for a fight between Broner and Burns, I can’t see Burns agreeing to move down in weight to fight Broner at super featherweight because he supposedly cant make super featherweight anymore. And I still think that fight would be doable even if Broner moved up to lightweight, because I think Burns might vacate his title and move up again if Broner shows up on the horizon. I’d hate to see Broner move up in weight just to have Burns drop the WBO strap and move up again. It might not be worth the trouble if Broner can’t get a guarantee that Burns won’t give up his title at the first hint of a Broner fight.

What Broner needs is Uchiyama most of all. Burns probably won’t be an interesting fight for Broner because he’ll pick him apart with ease and drill him each time Burns tries to grab him in one of his bear-hug clinches to try and smother his offense. That’s dull. Broner needs a prime time opponent, not a grabber or a runner. Uchiyama reminds me a lot of a smaller, less skilled version of Kostya Tszyu. He’ll make it interesting for a little while at least with his aggressive style of fighting, but ultimately Broner will take him out in five or six rounds.



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