By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s), believes his fighter is capable of beating WBC lightweight Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) on February 16th at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hearn thinks that if Rees doesn’t beat Broner, he’ll at least take him through hell and back before he’s beaten.
Hearn said to I Film London “It’s a fight where you can create a legacy. We don’t know how good Broner is. I do think he [Rees] can beat him. He’ll give Broner hell. He’s [Rees] a little ferocious Rottweiler.”
That’s funny, Hearn comparing Rees to a Rottweiler. Couldn’t he have found a smaller dog to compare Rees to because Rottweiler’s are kind of big. I don’t picture a Rottweiler when I think of Rees.
I’ll humor Hearn for a second with his vision thing about Rees beating Broner. It would maybe be a legacy building fight for Rees if he were to beat Broner, but what good would it be if Rees then turned around and got beat in his next fight by WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns or IBF champion Miguel Vazquez? I don’t see Rees beating either of those guys, so even if he did beat Broner by miracle, his legacy would still be nothing special if he got whipped in his next fight by Vazquez or Burns. See what I mean? What legacy?
For Rees to have a legacy, he’d have to beat Broner, beat Burns, beat Vazquez and then continue to beat the other talented fighters at lightweight like Antonio DeMarco, Vincente Escobedo, Richard Abril and Sharif Bogere. I hate to be the one to break this to Hearn but I don’t see Rees beating any of those guys, not one. Bogere, Burns, Vazquez, Abril, Escobedo and DeMarco would all school Rees with no problem. So, even if Rees did get a miracle win over Broner, he still wouldn’t going anywhere. I mean, Rees would get a nice payday fight against someone like Burns possibly, if the fight could be negotiated, but then he’d lose and be back where he started from.
The reality is Rees WON’T be putting Broner through hell on February 16th, he won’t beating him, and the fight won’t do anything for his legacy other than showing that he couldn’t handle the best fighter in the division.
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