De La Hoya: I can make Broner-Guerrero happen

By Boxing News - 09/08/2012 - Comments

Image: De La Hoya: I can make Broner-Guerrero happenBy Dan Ambrose: WBC interim welterweight champion Robert Guerrero (30-1, 18 KO’s) went straight to Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya to see if he’d be willing to match him up against fellow Golden Boy fighter former WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (24-0, 20 KO’s) for a grudge match to settle their differences.

Here’s what Guerrero said to De La Hoya earlier today on twitter:

“Hey Oscar, you know I walk the walk. Let’s do it [Broner vs. Guerrero]. You say you can make [the fight], then let’s roll! Had to let young pup [Broner] know!”

De La Hoya responded with this:

“You guys [Broner-Guerrero] want to talk crap, then settle it in the ring? I can make it happen.”

So there it is. De La Hoya is now saying he can make the Guerrero vs. Broner fight happen. It remains to be seen if Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer will feel the same way about it, though. He wants to match Guerrero against Floyd Mayweather, but that isn’t going to happen. It might happen if Guerrero were to face and beaten Broner, the Mayweather-esque clone, but short of that the fight isn’t going to happen.

Hopefully, Schaefer doesn’t shield Guerrero from facing the best fighters thinking that he’s got to save him for dream fight agaisnt Mayweather. If he does that then Guerrero could go stale waiting for Mayweather to one day decide on fighting him.

Let me tell you, Mayweather is not going to waste time with Guerrero unless he knocks off a big name like Broner. I can Mayweather suddenly showing interest in fighting Guerrero if he beats Broner because I think Mayweather has taken a liking to Broner and probably wouldn’t be happy to see him lose to a bigger guy like Guerrero. However, I think Guerrero doesn’t have the talent to beat a guy like Broner. The power and the speed isn’t there for Guerrero, and he’s not as athletically talented like Broner is.



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