by David P. Greisman
Shawn Porter believes he’ll incorporate more than one approach against Adrien Broner when they fight this Saturday in the main event of “Premier Boxing Champions” on NBC.
“I think this fight’s going to go everywhere. I want to dictate everything. I want to dictate the pace. I want to be the commander in the ring,” Porter said on a June 15 media conference call. “So with that being said, we’re versatile, which is great. We can box him from the outside. There will also be points where we look to move in and get very physical. We’ll take it one round at a time, obviously. We’ll look to box and we’ll also look to punch and put it all together … the boxing, the punching, the pressure, the countering, all of it.”
He looked back at how Broner handled, or didn’t handle, the approach that Marcos Maidana used in defeating the brash Cincinnatian back in 2013. He also reviewed footage of fights Broner won when he was younger.
“We’ve taken a look at a number of his fights. I’m definitely reminding myself not to underestimate him, not to think that I’m going to come in there and do everything that Maidana did to him, and that’s it and I’ll get the win. We look to do so much more than Maidana did. But the pressure that Maidana applied the entire fight was great, was what he needed.. We’ll obviously look to do some of that,” Porter said.
“I’ve also taken a look at his earlier fights where he looked really sharp and superb, just to remind myself of what he can do. There were a lot of things he didn’t do against Maidana, but there were a lot of things he did do good against some of his other competitors earlier in his career. We look to do a lot of different things in this fight. It’s going to take a lot to win this one. We’re ready for it.”
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