Adrien Broner: record, next fight and profile →
Former four division world champion Adrien Broner turned himself into cops in Ohio this morning ... for allegedly beating and robbing a man outside a bowling alley with a gun back in January.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t taken Adrien Broner’s challenge seriously after Broner beat Ashley Theophane on Friday night in Washington, D.C. Mayweather is much more interested in promoting Broner bouts against either Errol Spence or Shawn Porter. The retired superstar’s company, Mayweather Promotions, promoted the card headlined by the Broner-Theophane fight Friday night and hopes to promote Broner’s next bout as well.
As previously reported, former four division world champion Adrien Broner (32-2, 24KOs) is planning to return to the welterweight limit of 147-pounds. Broner made a jump from 135 to 147 in 2013 and won a twelve round split decision over Paulie Malignaggi to capture the WBA welterweight crown. But in the fall of the same year he suffered his first career defeat when Marcos Maidana dropped him twice to win a twelve round decision.
I thought the stoppage was premature because I thought I was in the fight. Me and Broner were going at it. It looked like he was starting to get tired because he started to move around and wasn't able to stay there with me as much.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Four-division world champion Adrien 'The Problem' Broner didn't have much of a problem beating and stopping Ashley "The Treasure" Theophane at 1:10 in the ninth round in the main event of tonight's Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike event in front of a sold out crowd of 8,172 at the DC Armory in Washington, D.C.
Adrien Broner had predicted an early knockout of Ashley Theophane. The early knockout didn’t come, but Broner still knew early on that Theophane wouldn’t make it to the final bell.
The storyline going into Adrien Broner's fight with Ashley Theophane suddenly changed barely a week before the bout, when it was revealted that there was a warrant out for his arrest in Cincinnati on accusations that he had assaulted and robbed a man after a night of betting on bowling.
The first time that Adrien Broner gave up a world title, he came in massively overweight for a bout with Vicente Escobedo in 2012, won the bout and then moved on up from junior lightweight to lightweight.
Adrien Broner had railed against Floyd Mayweather after his win over Ashley Theophane and challenged Mayweather to a fight. Broner continued on about the frayed relationship when speaking with reporters later.
Retired pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26KOs) has little to no interest in coming out of retirement to face former friend Adrien Broner (32-2, 24KOs).