By Ryan Wardle: Last Saturday at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey Adrien Broner ( 26-0, 22 KOs) predictably slaughtered Gavin Rees, forcing his corner to call a stop to the bout at the end of the 5th round. Rees came ready to fight and won the first two rounds on many viewer’s scorecards. However, Rees was outmatched once Broner began to pick him up towards the end of the 2nd round and was dominated from round 3 and on.
Adrien Broner has a rare combination of skills. Broner possesses natural talent, power, fast hands, and a good defense. His personality is polarizing and those who are not his fans are likely those who despise him. His skills to this point are undeniable, but there have been questions about the level of opposition he has faced. In his biggest fight to date, he demolished Antonio Demarco in 8 rounds to capture the WBC lightweight belt. At the time Demarco was considered the best lightweight.
By Scott Gilfoid: Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) says he’s open to fighting Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa in the future, but he has conditions for a fight with Gamboa. Broner wants to make sure Gamboa to be tested for performance enhancing drugs to where he’s clean before he’ll agree to fight him. As for Rios, Broner is leaving that fight up to his promoters to make.
By Dan Ambrose: WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (29-0, 12 KO’s) is reportedly bumping heads still with Yuriorkis Gamboa (22-0, 16 KO’s) over the weight for their March 16th fight. The two sides want different catchweight limits and thus far they’ve failed to agree on one that will work for the fight.
By Dan Ambrose: Robert Garcia, the trainer for newly crowned WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (31-0, 26 KO’s), told RingTV he’s hoping that Yuriorkis Gamboa (22-0, 16 KO’s) will agree to accept the challenge made by Mikey to either come down to featherweight and fight him or fight him at a catch in 2013. Robert Garcia believes Mikey can beat Gamboa.
By Dan Ambrose: Newly crowned WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (31-0, 26 KO’s) defeated Orlando Salido (39-12-2, 27 KO’s) and won his WBO strap by a head-butt that caused an eight round technical decision. After the fight, Mikey called out former two time featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa, saying he’d be willing to fight him at a catchweight.
By Dan Ambrose: According to Steve Kim, the proposed fight between super featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa and WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (29-0, 16 KO’s) is coming down to whether the two fighters can agree on a weight between 140 and 147.
Adrien Broner, clearly on the rise as the super, all dancing, all singing knock out star of the new era of boxing. Like him or loathe him no one can deny he has an electrical A-list star quality presence that can transcend “the problem” and the sport of boxing to new levels. 
By Dan Ambrose: Buoyed by his fighter Yuriokis Gamboa’s tougher than expected 12 round unanimous decision victory over Michael Farenas to claim the interim WBA World super featherweight title last Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, promoter 50 Cent [AKA Curtis Jackson] said he’d like to put together a fight between the 30-year-old Gamboa and the 23-year-old WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) in 2013.
