By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Sr. thinks it’s highly possible that his son Mayweather Jr (44-0, 26 KO’s) could end up facing unbeaten Mayweather-like Adrien Broner (27-0, 22 KO’s) in the near future if Broner does something that Floyd Jr. doesn’t like. Under that circumstance, Floyd Sr. thinks his son will forget about his friendship with Broner and agree to fight him in the ring. Right now Broner says he would never face his “big brother”, because he sees him as family.
Floyd Sr. told Mlive.com “There can always be something there that makes you fight. You say you ain’t gonna do this, you ain’t going to do that/ Let something go wrong. Let Broner says something wrong that Floyd don’t like.”
Floyd Sr. sees Broner as the best of the Mayweather Jr. imitators, but he pictures Broner coming apart at the seams when he eventually faces a quality fighter. Floyd Sr. thinks Broner will drop all the stuff he’s learned from watching Mayweather Jr. such as using the shoulder roll, and fight like he did before he started using Mayweather fighting style. In other words, Floyd Sr. doesn’t think Broner will do well when the day comes for him to face a really good fighter.
Floyd Sr. has a point. Broner didn’t look so hot against Paulie Malignaggi, and if he faces someone like Keith Thurman, all of the Mayweather stuff that Broner has been using could deteriorate in the process of him getting beaten.
There are some boxing fans who think Golden Boy Promotions is positioning Broner to be the replacement for Mayweather Jr. once he’s gone from the sport. Golden Boy already has a proposed pay per view card with Broner headlining it against Marcos Maidana on November 9th, and it looks like Broner’s fights are now going to be PPV events from now on. Can Broner sell like Floyd Jr. or even someone like Miguel Cotto? If Broner is the next Mayweather Jr, it’s going to be a watered down, weakened version.
A fight between Broner and Mayweather Jr. would be interesting as part of Mayweather’s 6-fight contract with Showtime. Broner would be over his head in that fight, and he would have to improve in every part of his game to keep from getting dominated. Right now, it would be a mismatch from start to finish with Mayweather Jr. working Broner over, and making him look like the pupil.
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