By Keith Idec

Adrien Broner couldn’t believe it when he learned Mikey Garcia opened as a 5-1 favorite over him last month.

Those lopsided odds obviously motivated Broner, but the former four-division champion is less concerned about playing the underdog role as their July 29 fight nears. Boxing bettors clearly have been wagering on Broner because Garcia is slightly less than a 3-1 favorite with less than a week to go before their 12-round, 140-pound bout at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

“Listen, man, I don’t care about being the underdog because at the end of the day I don’t make no money off of that,” Broner said during a conference call Thursday. “That’s just for gambling people. That’s for people in Vegas, man. It’s OK, though. I bet they won’t do it again after this fight.”

Cincinnati’s Broner (33-2, 24 KOs, 1 NC) says he hasn’t paid attention to the odds on their fight recently.

“I really don’t look at that because I know by [this] time next week it won’t be what it was,” Broner said. “I just wanna go out there and show the people I am one of the top boxers for a reason. I will be victorious next week.”

Broner joked about opening as a 5-1 underdog against Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) during the press conference to officially announce their “Showtime Championship Boxing” main event last month in Manhattan.

“I don’t be gettin’ into this, the media and stuff like that,” Broner said. “But I heard that like they got Mikey like 5-to-1. You know what I’m saying? I just feel like you got some serious bettors out there, looking at that like, ‘5-to-1?’ They don’t give me no chance. But y’all can sit up and say McGregor gonna beat Floyd. Man, this boxing game crazy, man! So after this fight, I just feel like if I come out untouched, you know, I feel like I’m gonna be victorious, I feel like I should come back and fight on Floyd’s undercard against Nate Diaz.

“But um, I just hope nobody put they house on this fight against me because if you do that, then you’ll be living like Will Smith in ‘Hancock’ after the fight, man.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.