Gavin Rees

By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBA light welterweight champion Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) thinks WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) is a Floyd Mayweather Jr. clone and he doesn’t think he’s nearly as good as Mayweather Jr. Rees feels he’s going to beat Broner next month on February 16th and show this to the boxing world.

Rees told Sky Sports “He’s [Broner] a Mayweather wanna be. We’ll see if he’s the real deal on February 16th. I don’t think he is.”

Broner isn’t really like Mayweather at all other than his habit of fighting flat-footed and using the shoulder roll defense that Mayweather is famous for. Beyond that, Broner and Mayweather are completely different fighters. Broner doesn’t have Mayweather’s hand speed, he can’t move like Mayweather did in his youth, and he’s much more of a puncher than Mayweather.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) has chosen to take an easy stay busy fight while he waits to see if the British fighter WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns will finally agree to face him after two years of chasing him.

Broner will be fighting Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) on February 16th in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This fight is seen by all to be a terrible mismatch and boxing fans aren’t really excited about this fight for obvious reasons, but Broner has to do his part in defending his World Boxing Council lightweight strap every so often while he waits for the more important fights to open up.

The Burns fight might ever happen because he’s fighting IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vazquez on March 16th and there’s a really good chance that Burns will lose that fight, and once he loses then there’s no point of Broner in continuing to try and get a fight with him.

By Scott Gilfoid: If WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) wants to get out of his February 16th fight against British fighter Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) in one piece so that he fight on the May 4th Floyd Mayweather Jr. undercard on HBO, Broner is going to have to be extra careful to avoid Rees’ head during the action.

I’ve seen many of Rees’ fights and he just comes storming forward with his head lowered like a Billy goat when he’s throwing shots. Rees reminds me a lot of heavyweight Evander Holyfield with the way he comes charging forward with his head lowered.

Two fights ago, Rees sliced up Anthony Mazzache with a head-butt that had him bleeding like a stuck pig. Eventually, Mazzache the fight was halted in the 7th because of the blood preventing him from seeing. Broner can’t afford to get cut up because it’ll ruin his possible fight on May 4th, which will be a much bigger deal than this fight because the entire nation will be watching the card with it being a Mayweather fight card.

By Scott Gilfoid: Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) has a plan that he feels is going to enable him to beat WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) on February 16th and take his title in front of millions of Americans watching the fight on HBO. Rees isn’t saying what the plan is, but it must be a real gem for him to be able to negate the obvious talent imbalance in this fight.

Broner is so far superior to Rees in every facet of the game that it’s a wonder that the fight was put together in the first place by Broner’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions.

At their recent telephone conference call, a way too cocky for his own good Rees said “It’s going to be a long night for you, Broner…I know it will be a great and fight that’s why I’m confident of winning.”

By Scott Gilfoid: It doesn’t seem to have registered yet with Britain’s Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) that he’s going to be obliterated by the talented WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) on February 16th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Rees is still going on the belief that he’s going to win this fight and it’s somewhat amusing to see him spouting off.

Rees said to Broner “You’re keeping the belt warm for me.”

Keeping the belt warm for him? Are you kidding? It would be believable if Rees was actually fighting world class opposition in the last four years, but the guy has been taking the easy route since being stopped by Andriy Kotelnik.

By Jason Kim: If you look at the way that WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner fights with his identical fighting style to his hero Floyd Mayweather Jr. to his total domination of the mostly mediocre opposition at super featherweight and lightweight, it looks like Broner is being groomed by his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions to be the eventual replacement for the aging 35-year-old Mayweather.

Broner fights for Golden Boy, whereas Mayweather has a working relationship with the promotional company. But it would be huge for Golden Boy is they were able to turn the young 23-year-old Broner into a PPV star along the same lines as Mayweather because Broner would be an actual Golden Boy fighter and they would make tons of money in that kind of situation if Broner could keep winning for a decade.

By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s), believes his fighter is capable of beating WBC lightweight Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) on February 16th at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hearn thinks that if Rees doesn’t beat Broner, he’ll at least take him through hell and back before he’s beaten.

Hearn said to I Film London “It’s a fight where you can create a legacy. We don’t know how good Broner is. I do think he [Rees] can beat him. He’ll give Broner hell. He’s [Rees] a little ferocious Rottweiler.”

That’s funny, Hearn comparing Rees to a Rottweiler. Couldn’t he have found a smaller dog to compare Rees to because Rottweiler’s are kind of big. I don’t picture a Rottweiler when I think of Rees.

By Scott Gilfoid: It kind of goes without saying that the UK’s Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 Kos) is badly over his head against WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) in their scheduled February 16th fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Rees is older, slower, weaker, less skilled defensively, and fighting away from the UK in the United States.

I mean, there is nothing at all that Rees has in his favor for this fight. I would give Rees an advantage in experience but I really can’t because he’s only faced one halfway decent fighter in his entire 15 year pro career and that was Andriy Kotelnick, who stopped Rees in the 12th round in 2008.

By Scott Gilfoid: British fighter Gavin Rees (37-1, 18 KO’s) believes he’s going to be able to knock WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) out in their fight next month on February 16th and take his World Boxing Council title in front of Broner’s own American fans at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Rees said “After I knock him [Broner] out, I’ll brush his hair him if he wants.”

I don’t know how Rees is going to be able to do that when it’s going to be him that’s knocked out in this fight. Broner is going to be the one standing above Rees looking down at him with sympathy for the fallen fighter.