By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner has no fear of WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido and sees himself as being above him in talent.
According to Dan Rafael on his twitter, Sean Gibbons, the manager for Salido, said Salido will “Brush his [Broner] hair all over the canvas. When Adrien Broner is ready fora real fight, Orlando Salido is available.”
Broner answered back “Haaaaa. I will make him look like the big head lil human he already is. Salido is a good fighter, but I’m one of a kind and if we was to fight, the wrold will see why I’m in a different league.”
I sure wish Broner would fight Salido, because I’ve not been impressed with any of his recent opponents following his tough fight against Daniel Ponce De Leon in March of last year. Broner has beaten the following fighters since then: Jason Litzau, Vincente Martin Rodriguez and Eloy Perez. Broner is now facing even weaker opposition with his fight against Britain’s Gary Sykes, who isn’t even ranked in the top 15 by any of the sanctioning bodies in the super featherweight division.
I’m sure the WBO will quickly have Sykes suddenly ranked high in the rankings or at least at the 10 position. I die laughing when/if that happens because Sykes doesn’t belong anywhere near the top tier, but I can definitely see that happening in the next week or two. It’s got to be soon because the Broner-Sykes fight is coming up fast on May 19th on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson rematch in Las Vegas.
There’s really no one at super featherweight to match Broner against. That’s sad part. Sykes, as horribly over-matched as he is, stands about as much chance as all the other super featherweights. Unless Broner is in love with the super featherweight division, he needs to move up to lightweight so he destroy some of the paper champions like Ricky Burns, Miguel Vazquez and Antonio DeMarco. None of those guys would stand a chance against Broner.
At super featherweight, it’s mighty slim pickings for Broner with the best options being Juan Carlos Salgado, Takahiro Aoh and Taskashi Uchiyama. None of them stand a chance against Broner. But there’s no upside in beating those guys because no one knows who they are in the United States other than the hardcore boxing fans. Broner can destroy them but he won’t get much more from beating them than he will when he destroys Sykes in one or two rounds next month on May 19th.
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