By Dan Ambrose: Former WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner’s scheduled October 6th fight on HBO has been moved to November sometime due to Broner’s promoters at Golden Boy having problems finding a suitable opponent for the 23-year-old star, according to Dan Rafael.
Golden Boy Promotions are hoping to find a big name to put in with Broner, but with time running out before the October 6th fight date they’re forced to abandon that date in order to continue to look for a suitable opponent.
The problem that Broner and Golden Boy are facing is that Broner has just moved up to the lightweight division where there’s a serious lack of quality names for Broner to fight. If we wants to stay at this weight, Broner is going to have to settle for fighting a lot of guys that casual boxing fans aren’t familiar with and we could see a lot of sick mismatches similar to Broner’s recent one against Vicente Escobedo.
The top lightweights are busy right now and that’s further hurting Broner’s situation. He could always step up in weight and fight WBC interim welterweight champion Robert Guerrero. However, it’s not likely that Golden Boy would approve of that match-up because they’re still hoping that Guerrero might get a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the near future. Having Broner beat Guerrero before he faces Mayweather would ruin that.
Broner could solve a lot of his problems in finding opponents if he would move up to the light welterweight division instead of lightweight. He already typically weights in the mid-140s when he fights, which would make him perfect for the light welterweight division. At 140, Broner would have zero problems finding opponents, because even if all the top light welterweights were busy, he could always move up to welterweight for occasional fights to pick off some of the well known fighters at that weight.
The undercard fight between Seth Mitchell vs. Johnathan Banks, which was supposed to be part of Broner’s next card on October 6th, will also be moved along with Broner to be packaged together in November some time.
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