Broner: Carlos Molina is a punching bag with arms and legs

By Boxing News - 05/01/2014 - Comments

Broner and Molina(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Adrien Broner (27-1, 22 KO’s) will be trying to look good this Saturday night in his tune-up/stay busy fight against Carlos Molina (17-1-1, 7 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Golden Boy Promotions and Broner’s adviser Al Haymon have backed him off of world class opposition following his one-sided 12 round decision loss to Marcos Maidana last December in order to get Broner back on the winning track. Molina doesn’t have the talent to compete with Broner, or at least he shouldn’t have the talent to compete with him.

Molina hasn’t fought in a year and half, and the last time he was in the ring, he was beaten up by Amir Khan in a one-sided 10th round TKO loss. It’ll definitely be worrisome if Molina is able to extend Broner and give him problems. If Molina somehow can pull off a miracle win over Broner, then you’ve got to assume that Broner’s career as a big time player will be over. Even with the expert match-making by his adviser Al Haymon, it’s still highly unlikely that Broner would be able to come back from a loss to a guy like Molina.

“I’m going to make an example of this boy [Molina] on Saturday night,” Broner said. “They don’t even know the person [Marcos Maidana] I lost to. They just know Adrien Broner took a loss. “[Molina is] a tough Mexican with a lot of heart; a punching bag with arms and legs.”

Don’t expect Broner to look any different than he has in the past, because he doesn’t have the hand speed or the mobility to improve over what we saw in his loss to Maidana. Broner’s short legs make it difficult to move around the ring, and he doesn’t have the speed, work rate or major power to be able to make it up for what he lacks in the hand speed and mobility department. Broner is going to have to beat Molina the same way he used to be the smaller lightweights that he built his resume on except that Molina will have more size.

The blueprint is already out there in how to beat Broner. Molina just needs to throw a lot of punches and stay busy for the full 10 rounds, and he’ll have a chance to possibly squeak out a decision.

Broner will be receiving $1.25 million for the Molina fight. In other words, he’ll be getting slightly less than the $1.5 million that Marcos Maidana will be receiving in his main event fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday night.



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