Comments Thread For: Broner: Maidana Has To Make Me Respect His Power

[Hands of Stone]

Can someone please explain to me what "credit" this clown is talking about. This guy is talking like someone who's beaten several world champions/ pound for pound guys. Everyone he's fought so far has been handpicked to make him look good and HBO and some of the fans gave you full credit for those fights which is why you are on the pedestal you are on today. I cant understand why some people are so clueless holding this guy in the same regard as Floyd considering that he still hasn't fought a live body. Advice AB, just be yourself. Floyd says those things because he's put in a lot of work and he actually goes in and put on a clinic and quite frankly, I do feel he is under appreciated at times but what the fcuk have you done besides beating the perez, rees, escobedo and all the other cab drivers of the world. You beat Demarco, Paulette, fine just keep stepping up your competition and in due time, you will be fine but please stop demanding what you haven't earned yet. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't understand that Floyd doesn't like sharing the spotlight with anyone and I won't be surprised if Floyd start talking down on this kid if he were to win this fight. By the way, Maidana will make u respect him, whether he takes u out or not remains to be seen.

[hitking]

Can someone please explain to me what "credit" this clown is talking about. This guy is talking like someone who's beaten several world champions/ pound for pound guys. Everyone he's fought so far has been handpicked to make him look good and HBO and some of the fans gave you full credit for those fights which is why you are on the pedestal you are on today. I cant understand why some people are so clueless holding this guy in the same regard as Floyd considering that he still hasn't fought a live body. Advice AB, just be yourself. Floyd says those things because he's put in a lot of work and he actually goes in and put on a clinic and quite frankly, I do feel he is under appreciated at times but what the fcuk have you done besides beating the perez, rees, escobedo and all the other cab drivers of the world. You beat Demarco, Paulette, fine just keep stepping up your competition and in due time, you will be fine but please stop demanding what you haven't earned yet. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't understand that Floyd doesn't like sharing the spotlight with anyone and I won't be surprised if Floyd start talking down on this kid if he were to win this fight. By the way, Maidana will make u respect him, whether he takes u out or not remains to be seen.

Has it ever crossed you mind that all of AB's recent opponents have been handpicked because of the people that hate him? This kid basically went from prospect to lightening rod in the blink of an eye. At this point in Foyd's career, of course he could build up a leit resume because he wasn't the draw AB is. AB should be cleaning out the lightweight division as we speak. And the fight we should be looking forward to is him against Gamboa, maybe even Crawford. But after the Demarco fight, he fought Rees, who was a top 10 lightweight, and everyone went nuts. So GBP was forced to manufature an event with Paulie instead of letting this kid grind it out at 35. So don't blame AB for being popular. Because its his haters that's making him so popular. And at the moment, revenue outweighs everything.

[hitking]

Nothing to do with race. All the top guys get the same ****. Mayweather, Pacquiao, Ward, Golovkin... etc etc etc

Not really. Pac's rise to worldwide stardom came by beating the exact same guys Floyd was criticized for even fighting. At this point in their careers, AB's resume ****s all on GGG's. Yet AB gets blasted and GGG gets his balls massaged. Its really no way to dispute that. So why is that? I think its because guys like Floyd and AB have made the decision to build their brand and "popularity" on being disliked. There are pros and cons to every opponent. And because people don't like them, they focus on the cons. But that's my opinion. Another person's opinion could be its race related. Who knows? But the facts are the facts.

[hitking]

i thought paulie hit him with some pretty good shots he just doesn't have power..if he stays flat footed with that wide stance like he did against paulie he's getting knocked out but im sure he's worked on that

I've rewatched that fight twice this week and I still don't see all these solid connects Paulie supposedly had. Most of his connects that I saw were jabs to AB's chest.and occassionally he would throw a 5-6 punch combo and land the last one while simulateously moving outta range. Maybe I'm missing something. But I didn't think Paulie had a lotta success offensively against AB. And the rounds I gave him were the rounds that AB simply didn't do enough and Paulie basically won them on workrate. But that's the fight I saw. And if someone some somthing differently that's their opinion and more power to them.

[ddangerous]

Not really. Pac's rise to worldwide stardom came by beating the exact same guys Floyd was criticized for even fighting. At this point in their careers, AB's resume ****s all on GGG's. Yet AB gets blasted and GGG gets his balls massaged. Its really no way to dispute that. So why is that? I think its because guys like Floyd and AB have made the decision to build their brand and "popularity" on being disliked. There are pros and cons to every opponent. And because people don't like them, they focus on the cons. But that's my opinion. Another person's opinion could be its race related. Who knows? But the facts are the facts.

Nonsense. Pac got the same **** when he fought guys Floyd already beat, just like when Floyd got **** when he fought guys Pac had already beat. It is not about race. Froch is being called a bum at present because the ref stopped a fight prematurely that he very well may have won on his own by way of legit TKO/KO, and his resume is one of the best in the game. People still call Lennox a bum, just like they call the Klitschkos bums and on and on and on.

Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.

And in regard to GGG and AB, they are both still in the proving stage. Thing is - Golovkin's amateur resume completely overshadows Broner's, that's why I believe he gets better treatment from a lot of pugilists. Broner's best wins are whom? Demarco... Paulie... ? The Paulie fight was close and AB has been beat in many fan's eyes already by the likes of Ponce De Leon. GGG, on the other hand, has impressively beat Macklin by way of stoppage and just beat a guy that was supposedly going to test him by tons of people on this very thread. When he beat the **** out of Curtis, he suddenly became a bum. But then again, Ouma really tested him. Moral of the story is:

RACE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

[Tyler_Durden]

maidana only has power,sometimes I think he's a bit overrated,khan beat him,alexander,he struggled with an old morales,even the guys that come to fight give him trouble like karass and lopez,he's a strong fighter but a bit overrated I think

I'm guna have to agree with this.

[Evol]

Not really. Pac's rise to worldwide stardom came by beating the exact same guys Floyd was criticized for even fighting. At this point in their careers, AB's resume ****s all on GGG's. Yet AB gets blasted and GGG gets his balls massaged. Its really no way to dispute that. So why is that? I think its because guys like Floyd and AB have made the decision to build their brand and "popularity" on being disliked. There are pros and cons to every opponent. And because people don't like them, they focus on the cons. But that's my opinion. Another person's opinion could be its race related. Who knows? But the facts are the facts.

I thought PAC got the worst treatment out of them all. When PAC beat someone it's always he's on peds, he weight drain his opponent, etc. so what kinda hate has broner been getting lately again??

[TheBestSport]

It is really hard to root for this kid. Playing the race card, for shame....

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

broner gets my respect for beating maidana, but I doubt he does! el chino is gonna walk in that ring and let his hands go from the first bell and never stop!

[ßringer]

Wow.

It didn't take long at all for him to pull the race card, did it?