By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) will be looking to avenge the loss of his good friend Adrien Broner when he fights Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) this Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Broner was humiliated by the tough Argentinian fighter Maidana last December in a fight in which Broner didn’t seem well prepared. Broner said afterwards that he had overlooked Maidana, and hadn’t taken the fight as seriously as he should have.
Mayweather is taking Saturday’s fight seriously, and by beating Maidana, he’ll be avenging Broner’s loss and also sending him a strong message that there’s a wide difference between the two fighters. Up until his loss to Maidana, Broner had been openly saying that he would be the one taking over for Mayweather when he retired and he also was starting to hint that he would beat Mayweather if the two of them were to fight.
Broner said this last year in June before his fight against Paulie Malignaggi, “Of course I will replace him [Mayweather]. When my big brother is done with the sport, I will take over the sport of boxing.”
When asked if he thought he could beat Mayweather, Broner said to behindthegloves.com, “We would never fight, but I feel that no one would ever beat me. Nobody would beat me.”
It seems like Broner was dropping a pretty big hint that he felt that he would beat Mayweather. Obviously, Broner’s controversial 12 round decision win over Malignaggi and then his loss to Maidana has caused him to have second thoughts about this possible belief.
Mayweather said recently, “I’m just mad what he did to Adrien Broner. I’m upset.”
By beating Maidana, Mayweather will not only be able to avenge Broner’s loss, but also send him a pretty strong message of what would happen if the two of them were to ever face. Of course, they never will fight each other, but Mayweather can at least put Broner in his place where he belongs in the pecking order by beating Maidana with ease.
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