By Scott Gilfoid: 35-year-old unranked British fighter Ashley Theophane (39-6-1, 11 KOs) is highly motivated for his potential world title shot against WBA light welterweight champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner (31-2, 23 KOs) for their proposed fight in February or March of this year. Theophane wants to prove all the doubters wrong about him, and he wants to show the 26-year-old Broner that he’s not an “easy money” fight as he says on Twitter.
Broner wanted to be the one to face Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao for his next fight on April 9th on HBO pay-per-view, but instead Broner got passed over by Pacquiao’s 84-year-old promoter Bob Arum, who went with one of his own Top Rank stable fighters Tim Bradley for a third fight.
The fact that Arum was willing to put Pacquiao in with a fighter that the boxing public has zero interest in seeing was a knock on Broner, because he should have a high enough following to bring in more fans for a Pacquiao fight compared to a third painful to watch Pacquiao-Bradley fight.