Did Marcos Maidana ruin Adrien Broner?

He was indeed a big lightweight but he should have just moved up to 140, and not straight to 147. What if Crawford -who was huge at 135 as well- had skipped 140 to face Maidana in only his second fight at 147. How do you think he would have fared? He would have lost too

No. Maidana did great in the first half and even got a couple knockdowns, but Broner came back in the second half. It was a tough fight for both.

nope, Broner has always been a POS. I wrote in another forum that you only had to outgun him and you would win. As a matter of fact, i still think Paulina won against him. If she only had a bit of a punch....

Adrien Broner ruined Adrien Broner!

Did Ducketts kill himself after that fight? I don't think I ever saw him again after that night RIP Frank Ducketts :theyareon

Jumping weight that little Butter ball was sucking down weight to fight little guys when it came to fighting guys his own weight he was useless He was indeed a big lightweight but he should have just moved up to 140, and not straight to 147. What if Crawford -who was huge at 135 as well- had skipped 140 to face Maidana in only his second fight at 147. How do you think he would have fared?

AB did good against maidana and gets no credit for it. hes the same fighter but the bottom line is that hes just a "good" fighter, he will never be great. hes a flawed fighter who always lost big fights in the armatures, nothing new here. Insiders know this... he was spoken up n overhyped because we live in a snuckified, world star, TMZ, reality tv, tacky era

Didn't Broner do that first? He did, but Maidana did it after applying pain to the problem.

If I remember correctly Maidana doggy styled Broner!! Didn't Broner do that first?

He never ruined him at all AB is still the same old guy he once was the only difference is he has toned it down ever so slightly in terms of his ego

Jumping weight classes is what ruined Broner. And Quintero and Ponce De Leon exposed him before Maidana. Jumping weight that little Butter ball was sucking down weight to fight little guys when it came to fighting guys his own weight he was useless

It affected him mentally due to the fact that he was selling himself as the undefeated Fighter to replace Floyd Mayweather as the Man and when that didn't happen Im sure when he arrived home he probably was tempting to swallow his entire Prozac prescription

If I remember correctly Maidana doggy styled Broner!!

Na, Broner was never the same after the Paulie Malignaggi fight. Almost no one is ever the same after Paulie though, so there's no shame in that. Top name fighters who lost after fighting Paulie, or were never the same: Ricky Hatton - Lost TKO2 Pacquiao Juan Diaz - Lost UD12 JMM Amir Khan - Won UD12 over Maidana but almost got stopped Broner - Lost UD12 Maidana Porter - Lost MD12 Brook Judah - Retired after Paulie fight DSG - Won UD12 Guerrero but bad a much tougher time than expected against Guerrero Paulie Malignaggi ruins careers, all without steroids. HAHAhahahahahahaha The Malinaggi Effect!!! Hahahaha great stuff!!

Jumping weight classes is what ruined Broner. And Quintero and Ponce De Leon exposed him before Maidana.

Broner got way too much attention too early in his career. It did him a lot of harm. Too much praise, too much money, and too many yes-men in his ear while he was still a work in progress. You could argue he was never good enough to be elite but he could have been better than he is now. But once he got a pass on that bullshit he pulled against Escobedo it was a wrap on his progression.

He probably did take something out of him. The signs were there that he wasn't as good as he was portrayed to be. When you're winning a split decision against a 2013 version of Malignaggi, that says a lot to me. I like Paulie but he was well past his prime even then. Prime Malignaggi would have schooled Broner, that is the reality. I think Broner still thought he was invincible even though he had scraped a win against Paulie, as long as he still had that 0, then he got the shock of his life when he got in with Maidana. He got beaten up that night. He did actually show a lot of heart at the end of that fight but once that 0 had gone, i think he probably lost that desire to win as much. I think he loved feeling unbeaten and being compared his then idol Floyd more than he loved boxing. But when it comes down to it, he just isn't or wasn't that good. He is a good fighter but he's not elite and never will be, it is what it is. Not every fighter can be a top elite fighter. He's still a good world level contender which is still ok, no shame in that.

I'll never forget that night. NSB was united as one. We really were. Adrien Broner and CJ Ross are the only people who could ever manage that.

Did Ducketts kill himself after that fight? I don't think I ever saw him again after that night Oh I'm sure that douche is here under another alias.

He didn't ruin, he exposed.