Broner-DeMarco

By Scott Gilfoid: Putting on a beautiful display of power punching, Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) stopped WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-3-1, 21 KO’s) in the 8th round tonight to claim his World Boxing Council 135 pound title at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Fight with a sense of calm, Broner knocked DeMarco down with a picture perfect left hook to the jaw in the 8th. DeMarco’s corner new better than to let the fight continue, so they motioned to the referee that they wanted the fight stopped.

Broner started to really tee off on DeMarco in the 4th and 5th rounds after a feeling out period during the first three rounds. I thought DeMarco fought Broner at a standstill in the first three rounds but only because Broner wasn’t throwing a lot of punches. However, Broner warmed up in the 4th and was thrashing DeMarco with huge power shots to the head and body.

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(Photo: Naoki Fakuda) By Marcus Stewart: Reigning WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco faces fringe lightweight contender Adrien Broner. Broner has been hyped up by many American journalists to be the next Floyd Mayweather. How? The fact that he’s fought no one credible and he claims to be one of the best is laughable and outright stupid if you ask me. One journalist in particular states that he’ll be the next pound for pound king. Irrational and ridiculous for someone to state something like that.

Antonio DeMarco is a very talented south paw and without a doubt the best lightweight in the world, bar Ricky Burns of course. DeMarco recently won his last fight by a destructive TKO victory over John Molina whereby it only took one straight left hand to end the bout. That’s the kind of power that DeMarco possess.

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(Photo: Naoki Fakuda) By Eamon Mcdonald: Tonight we are going to see the first true test of young Adrien Broner’s career against the tough WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco. Broner has been built up by HBO to be the next superstar in America mainly by fighting unknown, over-matched or naturally smaller guys. Antonio DeMarco on the other hand has been brought along tougher and notably got threw into the deep end against the undefeated knockout artist Edwin Valero and suffered a beating in the process.

DeMarco has noticeably improved since that fight and won the WBC title with a terrific stoppage of Jorge Linares after losing near every round. Broner has his work cut out for him in this fight and won’t have as much of a size advantage as he is used to and he also isn’t as fast as valero or linares so his speed won’t shock DeMarco as much as he would like. This is the fight Broner needs to show why he has been hyped as much as he has. The smart money is on Broner to win and look good doing it but who could ever count out a guy like DeMarco?

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(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco weighed in at 134.5 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in for his bout against #4 WBC Adrien Broner for Saturday’s fight on HBO at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Broner also came in at 134.5 lbs.

In the co-main event, unbeaten heavyweight contender Seth Mitchell weighed in at a solid 242lbs and his opponent Johnathon Banks, the trainer and sparring partner for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, weighed in at considerably less at 218.5. Mitchell is expected to win this fight and likely by a knockout. Banks was an okay fighter at cruiserweight, but he’s not looked good at heavyweight since moving up in weight and it’s going to be bad for him tomorrow night.

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By Eric Thomas: Adrien Broner (24-0, 20 KO’s) realizes what’s at stake this Saturday night in his fight against WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-2-1, 21 KO’s). Broner knows full well that a win in this fight will take him to the next level where he wants to go to become one of the sports huge pay per view stars. A loss will put Broner right back where he started from and it would be a long climb back up. Losing to a fighter like DeMarco would badly hurt the talented Broner’s career and he can’t risk losing that fight.

DeMarco has beaten top fighters like Broner before, and he believes he can take him out just as he did with Jorge Linares last year.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Adrien Broner (24-0, 20 KO’s) on the verge of forcefully stripping the title belt from WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-2-1, 21 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For DeMarco, it’s going to be likes he’s going back to the scene where he was batted around the ring by Edwin Valero.

Broner is going to put DeMarco right back where he was on that night two years ago by pounding him at will in front of what will likely be a huge nationwide crowd that will be tuning in on HBO to watch the talented Broner do his work. Broner has got the talent that most boxers can only dream of.

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