(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (24-0, 20 KO’s) needs to hurry up and clean out the lightweight division so that he can move up to light welterweight and take out the champions like WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (25-0, 16 KO’s) and Lamont Peterson. Broner has an uninteresting fight against WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-2-1, 21 KO’s) on November 17th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
HBO will be televising the fight, and while some boxing fans are looking forward to the fight as if it’s going to be a competitive fight, it really won’t be. Broner is going to destroy the skinny, stork-like DeMarco within four or five rounds at best. DeMarco is considered by many to be the best fighter in the lightweight division, at least he was considered to be the best until Broner got there. He’s now second best.
After Broner destroys DeMarco, there really isn’t anyone else for Broner to fight. WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns will likely never agree to fight Broner, so that’s a waste of time, and Broner can’t force Burns to vacate because once Broner has the WBC title he’ll be a champion, not a contender anymore.
Broner will be spinning his wheels if he wastes time trying to get Burns to fight him. This is why Broner needs to cut his losses and move up to 140 immediately after he beats DeMarco next month. I mean, I think Broner should briefly try and set up a fight with Burns, but once it’s clear that the fight isn’t happening, then Broner needs to move up to 140 and challenge Garcia.
I see Broner being able to beat Garcia with no problems. Broner will neutralize Garcia’s main weapon, his left hook quite easily. Without his left hook, Garcia will be a punching bag for Broner and will get eaten up by his pinpoint shots. That’ll be a sickening mismatch because Garcia doesn’t have the quickness or the same skills that Broner has, it’s not even close. Broner could move up now and immediately beat Garcia with ease if he wanted to. But it looks like Broner’s promoters are taking it slow with him by having him move up in weight in small increments. But seriously, the lightweight division is a useless trap for Broner, because of the lack of talent in the division.
Once DeMarco is out of the way, it’s nothing but weak paper champions and that’s not worthy of Broner to even waste time trying to fight them. He already tried to fight Burns once and he vacated, so you can kind of see the direction that Burns will be taking when Broner tries to get a fight with him again.
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