(Photo credit: Idris Erba/Mayweather Promotions) By Yannis Mihanos: This Saturday night at the MGM Las Vegas Nevada an interesting match-up is taking place between two talented contenders in Adrien Broner (30-1) and Shawn Porter (25-1-1) in a fight at a catch-weight of 144 pounds. They both have suffered at least one defeat during their careers, and they both have come back from it one way or another. Very often the 25-year-old Adrien Broner presents himself in the media as the rightful successor of the one and only Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Broner has never been shy about being seen as the successor to Mayweather, and his way of life and style in boxing help with that. But after Broner’s bitter 2013 defeat at the hands of Marcos Maidana things have slightly changed for him. Broner cannot anymore play the unbeatable superstar because he’s no longer undefeated like Mayweather. Broner’s last three encounters have been soft ones just to set him again for the big stage and it has worked out as planned.