(Photo credit: Casino/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner, a close personal friend of Floyd Mayweather Jr., couldn’t help poking fun at the arrest of Mayweather’s next opponent Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, who earlier today was arrested for gun possession at the JFK airport in New York while preparing for a flight to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Broner, 23, said on his twitter: “Man, I really hope Robert “gotta gun” Guerrero [will] be OK. LOL.”
I imagine Guerrero will eventually be ok, but he’s got some serious charges hanging over his head as he prepares for his May 4th fight with Mayweather at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Guerrero was charged with illegally carrying with a firearm [pistol] in New York. That’s not all. Guerrero also had three, 15-round high capacity gun magazines with him in a case along with the pistol.
The good news it the Mayweather-Guerrero fight will still take place on May 4th. The bad news is Guerrero is going to have to untangle himself from this legal mess on May 15th.
Guerrero had a permit for the firearm, but the permit was for California, not New York. That’s a major problem, and perhaps he didn’t know the law. Of course, I’m not sure if ignorance of the law will work as a defense strategy. Who knows perhaps it will. Guerrero could get a slap on the hand for this.
Guerrero and Broner went at it on twitter last year when the two of them trash talked each other. Guerrero wanted to face Broner in a fight at welterweight. Broner, a lightweight, wasn’t willing to move up two divisions to take the fight.
Broner is moving up in weight now to take on WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi on June 22nd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Maybe if Broner makes easy work of Malignaggi, he might be interested in staying at 147 and facing Guerrero. There’s really not too many other guys for Broner to fight at 147, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Golden Boy Promotions matches Guerrero and Broner up in 2013.
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