Porter: Broner is walking into the lion’s den, he can’t run for long

By Boxing News - 06/02/2015 - Comments

porter100By Allan Fox: Former IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (25-1-1, 16 KOs) says he’s ready to chase down Adrien Broner (30-1, 22 KOs) and force him to fight in their catch-weight fight at 144 pounds this month on June 20th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Broner isn’t much of a runner so it’s hard to understand where Porter is coming from in saying he’s going to chase him down if he has to. Broner will likely be stationary and fighting behind his normal shoulder roll defense.

It’s going to be a tough job for Porter because Broner seems to have improved with his defensive skills, and he’s not going to make it easy for him to land his shots.

“There is no animosity coming from me. I keep a level head and stay poised at all times,” Porter said to Thaboxingvoice.com. “He’s walking into a lion’s den. You get in the ring with a lion, and you can only run for so long.”

Porter needs Broner to stand still for him so that he can get his shots off. In Porter’s loss last year to Kell Brook from Britain, Brook was able to tie Porter up frequently to smother his offense. The referee failed to do anything about Brook’s holding, and this left Porter to try and beat Brook from the outside. Porter didn’t have the arm length and a good enough outside game to do the job. It was still a very close fight. Some fans feel that it was one-sided with Brook easily winning, but the fight was definitely very close. If Brook could have done just a little more, he would have won the fight. His mistake was not fighting through the clinches to get his shots off. Porter would just give up each time Brook would grab him. Smart fighters know to fight through the clinches by hitting with their free hand or wrestling out of the clinches to continue to fight on the inside.

If Broner decides to use the blueprint that Brook created in how to beat Porter, then it’s going to put Porter in a situation where he’s going to need to adapt or else he’ll lose another fight.

Broner has looked good recently in beating John Molina, Emmanuel Taylor and Carlos Molina in his last three fights. He’s really turned his career around since suffering a 12 round unanimous decision loss to Marcos Maidana in December 2013.
Porter won his last fight against Eric Bone. Porter looked kind of sloppy in that fight, but that’s his fighting style. He’s going to need to be very aggressive against Broner for him to get the victory.

Porter will be coming down three pounds from 147 to fight Broner at 144 for their catch-weight. It shouldn’t be a real strain for Porter because it’s only three pounds. If he gets drained from losing an extra three pounds then he probably doesn’t belong in fighting at welterweight.

Broner has an outside chance of getting the Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight if he wins this fight, and if Mayweather doesn’t select Amir Khan to fight next in September.



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