By Jim Dower: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) would wind up facing fringe super featherweight contender Monty Meza Clay (32-3, 21 KO’s) for the 22-year-old Broner’s optional defense on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson rematch at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dan Rafael reports that the name he’s been hearing for Broner right now is the 5’2″, 31-year-old Meza Clay.
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Adrien Broner defends WBO title on May 19th
By Dan Ambrose: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) will be making his second title defense of his World Boxing Organization bout next month on May 19th against an opponent still to be determined at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Eloy Perez tests positive for cocaine after loss to Broner
By Chris Williams: No.1 WBO super featherweight contender Eloy Perez (23-1, 7 KO’s) reportedly tested positive after his 4th round TKO loss to WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner last month on February 25th in Saint Louis, Missouri. According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, Perez’s management, Garcia Boxing, informed Golden Boy Promotions, the promoters for Broner, about the positive drug test results.
Adrien Broner has the potential to be an even higher paid PPV star than Floyd Mayweather
By Frank Gaskins: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) is definitely on the fast track to become one of boxing’s next mega stars. At this stage in his career as early as it is, skill set wise he already seems to have all you could want in a fighter. Broner has the blazing hand speed with the foot speed to match, great foot work, exceptional defense, KO power in each hand, boxing IQ, ring generalship, showmanship and he talks big and walks even bigger.
Broner needs Uchiyama and Burns
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions are looking for an interesting opponent to put the talented Broner in with for his next fight after he easily took care of top WBO contender Eloy Perez by stopping him in the 4th round last month on February 25th in a huge slaughter in Saint Louis, Missouri on HBO.
Adrien Broner would be huge threat to Pacquiao
By Chris Williams: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) is setting the boxing world on fire with his amazing hand speed, power and his Floyd Mayweather Jr-like fighting style. Broner has Mayweather’s style completely memorized at this point and perfectly incorporated into his own fight game. Broner isn’t just blindly copying Mayweather without success.
Would Broner have destroyed Ricky Burns had he not moved up in weight?
By Scott Gilfoid: I can’t help wondering what Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) would have been able to do with former WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns (33-2, 9 KO’s) had Burns not skedaddled just when Broner was on the verge of fighting him last year. I know to Burns’ fans, they feel he couldn’t make the weight anymore and had to move up just at the moment that he was finally about to face his first real threat since capturing the title.
Broner could fight on Khan-Peterson II undercard on May 19th
By Eric Thomas: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) could be back in action on May 19th on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson rematch at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, according to RingTV. Broner defeated Eloy Perez last Saturday night by a 4th round TKO victory at the Scottrade Center, Saint Louis, Missouri. The stole the show from headliner Devon Alexander in his shutout clinch-fest victory over Marcos Maidana.
Will Arum allow Rios or Gamboa to fight Broner?
By Chris Williams: WBO supper featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) looked like a superstar in the making in stopping top contender Eloy Perez in the 4th round last Saturday night at the Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Broner says he’s ready to face the best at 130 and 135
By Jason Kim: One thing is apparent from watching WBO supper featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) make short work of #1 WBO contender Eloy Perez (23-1-2, 7 KO’s) last Saturday night in Saint Louis, is that the 22-year-old Broner needs bigger challenges than what he’s been facing.