Adrien Broner was never THAT good

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I never saw the hype over Adrie Broner, even prior to the Maidana fight. His punches are slow and telegraphed, plus he has a low punch output. His power was average, at best. He made a living off of beating up a lot of mid-carders until he ran into Maidana who cleaned his clock. Even I knew Maidana was going to win that fight.

Broner was never top tier. His connection to Money Mayweather was the only reason why we even bothered to talk to him. His contemporaries like Hurd and Easter were much better than him, in my honest opinion.

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He wasn’t a terrible fighter. He has solid wins over DeMarco, Molina and Malignaggi. But he was a great fighter in his head only

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he was always limited, he should have stayed at 135

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Broner was champion at 4 weights which is a big achievement. So I think he was a good boxer but not a great. I think he is, like Floyd, broke which is a shame.

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Going to stick with what I was saying when a couple respected voices were here saying he was a future great and he being mentioned in the same sentence as a young Armstrong :flushed_face: :face_with_monocle: . Reading back some of the stuff from when he was coming on is interesting. He was a flawed fighter getting by on legit reflex but smash mouth self-promotion and riding a well connected hype train longer than Amtrak. Had some talent but excelled at self sabotage and far from disciplined being rushed to the massive stage. The Escobedo fiasco said it all. Was a true low point, for him and more the salivating big networks that fed into that bs. All I know is right now he’s probably really wishing he had not flushed all those large bill$ down the fast food toilet and filmed himself. He’s in a bad spiraling way right now, sad to watch.

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