Rees: Adrien Broner has underestimated me

By Boxing News - 02/04/2013 - Comments

broner2By Scott Gilfoid: Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) doesn’t think WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) sees him as a real threat to beating him on February 16th in their fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Rees feels that Broner sees their fight as just another easy win for him to pick up against an over-matched opponent.

Rees said to RingTV “He [Broner] shows no respect for nobody…He’s underestimating me and in [2] weeks’ time he’ll know what it’s like in the ring.”

I guess that also can also apply to Rees. In two weeks’ time he’ll know what it’s like to be in the ring with Broner, and I suspect he’s going to be miserable after he finds out. When you have a mismatch like the Broner-Rees fight, the best that the over-matched opponent [Rees] can really hope for is that he doesn’t look too awful in getting blasted out.

At least that way he can go home to the UK with his head held high despite taking a pretty much one-sided loss, and maybe he come up with some excuses the UK public will believe. It’s got to be realistic, mind you. Rees can’t start talking about how the fight was near Valentine’s day and he was away from his loved ones, and he can’t come up with an excuse about an ash cloud delaying his travel to the U.S for the fight. It’s got to be believable because I think the UK boxing public won’t buy into it if it’s something really bizarre like that.

Broner isn’t underestimating Rees at all from what I can see. Broner knows exactly what he has in front of him with the easy to hit, easy to bleed Rees. Broner has seen the video of Rees’ recent fights, and he knows that Rees is pretty much just a plodder who hasn’t faced world level opposition since being stopped by Andriy Kotelnik five years ago.

I mean, why shouldn’t Broner overestimate Rees when the guy stopped fighting world level opposition five years ago? God knows why Rees stopped facing high level opposition after the Kotelnik fight.

I imagine he has his reasons. Some people when they have a negative experience, they learn not to attempt what they failed at again. Is that why Rees stopped fighting world class opposition after his loss to Kotelnik? I guess only Rees knows the real reason why he stopped facing high level opposition.

I think Broner is doing the right thing in seeing this fight against Rees as a mismatch because it is a mismatch, so he’s just doing what comes naturally in looking past someone that doesn’t have the talent to compete with him.



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