By Allan Fox: WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner (27-0, 22 KO’s) believes that he’ll be taking over boxing once his idol Floyd Mayweather Jr. retires from the sport. Broner patterns his fighting style after Floyd and he thinks he’ll be the one to carry the torch once Mayweather hangs up the gloves in the near future. Broner has no interest in fighting Mayweather because he sees him as family.
When asked why doesn’t he fight Mayweather, Broner said “For what? We on the same team. We keep the money in the house. After he’s done with boxing, I will take over boxing. I’m just waiting my turn.”
If Broner is going to be the one that replaced Mayweather then he’s going to have to do a better job in beating the top fighters in the 147 lb. division and in the other divisions because Broner did not look Mayweather-esque in barely beating Paulie Malignaggi last June by a 12 round split decision. While some writers thought that Broner fought the only fight he could against the defensive Malignaggi, there’s still no way that you could picture Mayweather struggling against Malignaggi the way that Broner did. Mayweather would have dominated Malignaggi at any point in his career.
Broner also says he’s open to the idea of fighting at 154 to go after another world title in the future. Broner has captured world titles in three different divisions – 130, 135 and 147 – and he envisions winning world titles at 140 and 154 to give him a total of 5 world titles at some point.
Broner said “yeah, man, why not? Go down in history and take five belts in five different weight categories.”
Broner needs to focus on winning his first title defense of his WBA 147 lb. title against challenger Marcos Maidana (34-3, 31 KO’s) on December 14th on Showtime at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The fight card was going to be a pay-per-view card but Golden Boy Promotions decided to make it regular Showtime instead.
It’s likely that they realized that it wasn’t going to create a lot of PPV buys due to a lack of a really big names on the card. The 24-yard-old Broner is becoming a star, but he still needs more time and a big name opponent to get him to the next level. If Broner doesn’t want to fight Mayweather then he’s going to need to face someone like Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to get him to that level. Broner would be giving up a great deal of size and power if he were to face Canelo. Broner would have to implement movement in his game because he wouldn’t be able to beat Canelo standing in place and leaning backwards with his shoulder roll defense. Canelo would tear into Broner’s body if he fought in a stationary manner looking to just block head shots.
Also on Broner’s December 14th card will be the following fights:
Keith Thurman vs. Jesus Soto Karass
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Cesar Seda
Beibut Shumenov vs. Tamas Kovacs
Alfredo Angulo vs. Jorge Melendez
Victor Ortiz vs. Alfonso Gomez
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