By Dan Ambrose: Former WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (24-0, 20 KO’s) has set his sights on facing WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (27-2-1, 20 KO’s) next in October if DeMarco wants the fight. However, Broner wouldn’t mind fighting featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (21-0, 16 KO’s) if he wants the fight.
Broner said to RingTV “He’s [DeMarco] got the WBC’s belt and that would be a perfect fight for me.”
When asked if he’d be interested in facing Gamboa next, Broner said “That’s on him, though. You know I’ll fight anybody…If he wants that fight, like I said, anybody can get it.”
That would be a tough fight for the 5’5″ Gamboa, because it would require for him to move up two weight divisions to take the fight. Recently, Gamboa backed out of a fight against lightweight Brandon Rios, who also has a tendency like Broner to rehydrate into the upper 140s. Broner is a much more difficult opponent for Gamboa, because not only is he a lot bigger, but he’s also stronger. Gamboa would be giving away all that height, reach size.
Gamboa has beaten bigger fighters before in the past, but he’s never beaten someone who had a six inch reach advantage, as well as a weight and power advantage like Broner would have over him. It would be too much even if Broner melted down to super featherweight to take the fight. The only way Gamboa would have a chance if if they had strict rehydration limits, but even then they would probably fail because Broner would likely weigh whatever he wants to for the fight like he did in his last fight against Vincente Escobedo. A lot of boxing fans don’t understand that Gamboa and Broner fight in different weight classes and the size difference would be the equivalent of Gamboa fighting someone three to four divisions above him by the time he entered the ring against Broner. The six inch reach advantage for Broner would be all that he needs to dominate Gamboa.
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