Is Golden Boy grooming Broner as the next Mayweather?

broner3By 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.

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Hearn: Gavin Rees can beat Adrien Broner; he’ll give him hell

rees45By 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.

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Rees: I think I can pull off an upset against Broner

broner9282By 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.

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Rees to Broner: I’ll brush his hair after I knock him out

broner53By 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.

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Rees: My fight with Broner is like Calzaghe vs. Lacy

broner452By Scott Gilfoid: Gavin Rees (37-1, 18 KO’s) sees his fight with WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) next month on February 16th as being the exact same fight scenario as the March 2006 fight between Joe Calzaghe and Jeff Lacy. Rees sees himself as being the Calzaghe and the unbeaten Broner as Lacy. It’s pretty funny comparison, but if Rees actually believes it than I really feel sorry for him.

Rees said to livefight.com “It’s the exactly the same scenario. The Americans pump their fighters up to no end but it’ll be the same as that fight in mine.”

So let me get this straight. Rees sees himself as another Calzaghe? Oh, that is amusing. We’re talking delusions of grandeur here. If Rees as another Calzaghe than why did he get knocked out by Andriy Kotelnik in 2008?

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Maccarinelli: Gavin Rees will beat Adrien Broner

rees45By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli believes that Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) will be pulling off a big upset on February 16th by beating unbeaten WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Maccarineli said to walesonline.co.uk “Gavin is going to shock everyone. It’s going to be tough out there but it won’t faze him. I don’t believe Broner has fought anyone as tough as Gavin. So it’s ‘The Rock’ to win a close points decision for me.”

So it’s “The Rock”, eh? What a name. I have a feeling that Rees is going to be dropping like a rock on February 16th. Maccarinelli says Rees is tough. I translate that to mean he’s going to take career’s worth of punishment by Broner instead of doing the smart thing by quitting on his stool when it becomes painfully obvious by the 2nd round that he’s little more than a rounded piñata for Broner to stick with his punches.

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Rees: Adrien Broner leaves his body open when he fights

broner542By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBA light welterweight and EBU lightweight champion Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) thinks he can target the body of WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) when they face off on February 16th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Rees isn’t saying it directly but it looks like he’s going to try and get in close and work Broner’s body over. His fellow Brits are giving him advice about trying to smother Broner’s offense by getting on top of him and throwing a lot of shots. It remains to be seen whether either of these strategies will work for Rees.

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Sakio Bika vs. Nikola Sjekloca on Broner-Rees undercard on February 16th

bika33By Jason Kim: Super middleweight contender Sakio Bika (30-5-2, 21 KO’s) will be facing 34-year-old unbeaten Serbian Nikola Sjekloca (25-0, 7 KO’s) on February 16th for the interim WBC super middleweight title on the undercard of the Adrien Broner vs. Gavin Rees fight card at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, according to RingTV.

The Bika-Sjekloca winner will be put in line to face the WBC 168 pound champion Andre Ward. Bika has already faced Ward once during his career, losing by a 12 round unanimous decision in November 2010 by the scores of 120-108, 118-110 and 118-110.

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Broner vs. Rees: Adrien gets an easy one on 2/16

broner777 - CopyBy Scott Gilfoid: This was supposed to have been WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner’s unification bout with WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns, but he didn’t want any, and so Broner has got an easy substitute in former WBA light welterweight champion Gavin Rees to (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) on February 16th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Broner comes into this fight having annihilated his last five opponents, knocking them all out and not really being challenged by any of them. Even his last opponent Antonio DeMarco, who many boxing fans had previously saw as the beat fighter in the lightweight division, was a mere punching bag for Broner last November.

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Broner-Rees: Adrien will send a message with his slaughter of Gavin

broner451By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns didn’t agree to take the fight with the talented WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) but that’s okay because Broner will be looking to send a clear message to Burns on February 16th when he destroys the Welsh fighter Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) in their fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

I suspect that if Burns had any thoughts of taking on Broner in 2013, he’ll forget those plans after watching what Broner does to Rees. It’s going to be painful, brutal and short with Rees taking a terrible beating and likely left on the canvas in a woeful state.

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