By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-2-1, 21 KO’s) thinks he’s got the power and the skills to beat undefeated Adrien Broner (24-0, 20 KO’s) next month in their important HBO televised fight at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. DeMarco, 5’10”, thinks he has the power to hand the 23-year-old Broner his first loss of his four-year pro career.
DeMarco said to Fighthype.com “I have the capacity to stop Broner, mentally and physically…If he doesn’t make the weight, then there is no fight.”
DeMarco does have excellent power and he did a great job on beating Jorge Linares, Miguel Roman and John Molina, but those guys are nowhere near as good as Broner. So the experience that DeMarco has is kind of useless for him. Broner is simply leagues better than those guys, and I have no doubts whatsoever that Broner could beat Molina, Roman and Linares on the same night. That’s how good Broner is.
Heck, you could add DeMarco’s name to that three man list and I see Broner beating all four of them one by one on the same night. DeMarco is still the same fighter that was blasted out by Edwin Valero in 9 rounds two years ago, and Broner has similar power but much better boxing skills compared to the now deceased Valero. DeMarco’s only chance of beating Broner is to try and jump him early before Broner has had a chance to get warmed up, because once Broner is loose he’s going to give DeMarco a terrible beating on November 17th.
As far as Broner not making weight goes, DeMarco and his promoter Gary Shaw don’t have to worry about that, because Broner will have no problems making the lightweight 135 pound weigh-in limit. Broner will likely rehydrate up to 146 or so, but he’ll easily make weight for this fight. The only reason Broner didn’t bother to make weight in his last fight against Vicente Escobedo is because Broner had already decided that he was doing to be vacating his WBO super featherweight title and moving up in weight. So why bother to make weight if you’re already moving up? I don’t blame Broner one bit for coming in over the super featherweight limit because I would have done the same had I been in the same position as him.
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