Does Broners win over Molina look better now?

[Scipio2009]

styles make fights; John Molina Jr, from the moment he put on gloves till the moment he hangs them up, will always have trouble with folks who move and box.

for Molina Jr to have good fights, you've got to be careful with the matchmaking somewhat; vs Omar Figueroa Jr, at 140, is the next logical good fight for John Molina Jr where he could win, imo (Crawford decisions him, Burns doesn't set his feet for long enough to give Molina Jr a chance to launch anything, and I've never seen Troyanovsky fight).

Robert Guerrero would be the type of opponent that a matchmaker would focus Molina on at 147; rugged guy, will be there to fight with you, opening things up for Molina Jr to get his shots off.

Molina Jr may not have the goods to be a reigning world champion, at any weight, but he's got the makings of being a really good TV fighter for as long as he wants to fight.

[Box-Office]

The Molina, Broner faced was the one who had accomplished everything he had up to that point when he fought Adrian. I'll go with my favourite example of Lacy-Calzaghe where it isn't Joe's fault Jeff turned out the way he did, fact is that Calzaghe faced the Lacy who was everything up to that point and was supposed to be the next Tyson blah blah blah.


Does the guy who beat Hopkins in his pro debut get credit for beating the Hopkins winning world titles in his late 40s or did he beat a fighter making his debut?

[LacedUp]

Molina dropped and almost KO'd Mathysse.

He's a tough fight for anybody...better bring your A-game.

He wasn't tough for Broner.

[bojangles1987]

No. We know who Molina is. There is no mystery to him. Provodnikov losing only says something about Provodnikov and the level of fighter he is/has become, not that Molina is better than we thought.

And that's without even getting into Molina's absolutely pathetic effort in the Broner fight.

[bigdunny1]

He'll no! Molina looked terrible in his 3 previous fights including broner. Came into this fight with just 1 win in his last 4 fights. This fight was more about how bad Ruslan looked then about Molina.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Dat white boy was easy work for AB doe

Is he white? We'll never know.

[daggum]

broner is the only one to defeat the great molina.

[The Big Dunn]

It makes Broner's win look slightly netter but it really shows that Provo is not that good. Sucks for AB because he IMO was likley going to tattoo Provo while beating the crap out of him.

[New England]

yeah, but broner still sucks a heck of a lot more than he thinks he does. at least how he used to think. i think it's starting to sink in that he's not floyd mayweather, or anything remotely close.


molina was ranked 75th until he beat provodnikov, who was an ESPN fighther back in teh day, and who loses virtually every time he steps up. provodnikov's best work was done in a loss agaisnt bradley, where tim showed that the hard punches he'd been taking in victory and defeat were probably catching up to him.

[BrometheusBob.]

Post and discuss....

Sure. Still not a huge win but nothing to scoff at.