Comments Thread For: How Will We Remember Adrien Broner?

[alexguiness]

Adrien who?

[GetSlappedSilly]

Thing about Broner aside from being too much of an immature knucklehead for his own good, is that hes not even a top 10 welterweight in a stacked division. Hes really a 140 fighter a division thats much weaker, but he lacks the discipline to stay in shape and compete at 140. At 47 hes already lost to Maidana and Porter at a catchweight that AB insisted on. Do any of you guys see him beating Thurman, Kell Brook, Errol Spence, DSG? I sure dont.

[GhostofDempsey]

How do fans today remember Donald Curry? Curry was a great amateur, 400+ fights and only 4 - 6 losses. Missed the Olympics due to boycott that year. Went 36-4 as pro, had some legal troubles. Far better fighter than Broner, no one talks about him today. Ten years from now, no one will be talking about Broner.

[nycsmooth]

This Punk a disgrace to this great Sport and a wannabe Thug needs to get the book thrown at him and no probation...

[diceflawless]

Whats real sad is that all boxing scene cares about is the fact AB getting arrested ovet a petty crime warrant over getting shot at and could possibly be dead right now. ***

[Chuckguy]

On the real to me as of now he will be remembered as a talented fighter who lacked dedication. A waste of talent

[hitking]

Even though most of his critics will pretend that he was some hype job, Broner was actually a talented guy. And during his rise, you would have been hard pressed to find a lot of lightweights that could have beaten him. I attribute most of AB's issues to being immature and ignorant. But I think some of the blame falls on a poor support system.

Very early in Broker's career, it was obvious that he saw himself as the next Mayweather. It also became obvious that being a star was more important to him than being a good fighter. Every successful person has yes-men around them. But everyone needs somebody around them to keep them grounded. Broner didn't have that. The worst career move Broner ever made was moving up to welterweight and fighting Malignaggi. That was as manufactured an event as I've ever seen. It was the perfect storm. Paulie was a light hitting guy two divisions north of where Broner fought. Which created safe intrigue. He had a paper trinket, which gave him credibility. It also had a big personality I that would mix well with Broner's to make for an entertaining prefight build-up. I also think long term, getting Broner in the mix at welterweight was a way to kinda set the stage for a showdown with Floyd. And Broner didn't put on a great performance. I thought he clearly won. But there was enough there that those in charge of his career should have realized that it was time to pump the breaks a little on Broner becoming a superstar. And drop him back down to lightweight. And let him genuinely try and build a star career. Instead of trying to manufacture one. But of course they didn't. They tried to carefully match him with Chino. And the rest us history.

At the end of the day, I don't think things end well for Broner. When guys like Broner get into trouble. People like to say he's "running with the wriong crowd." Losing sight of the fact that he is the wrong crowd. He's a bad guy. And things are gonna only get worse. Because his days as a relevant prize fighter are dwindling down. Which means his days of having the ability to earn the type of money to support the type of lifestyle he's intoxicated by are numbered. And I don't see Broner as being the type of guy that once he blows all his money, which he will, throwing on a hard hat and steel toe boots, going and working a construction job, and being a regular guy. He's gonna do whatever it takes to keep the big money coming in. Which will lead to the pen or the graveyard. If he even makes it to that point. It wouldn't surprise me at all to log onto this website one day and see Broner shot and killed, it has died tragically some other way. Or has caught a charge that's gonna lock him of for a significant amount of time. And either of these things happening while he's a semi-relevant fighter.

[williefroth]

Maybe Broner is Mike Tysons son? seems so likely it's comicical

Broner will not end up well and will be behind bars. Kids like Broner belong in a cell anyway protecting decent folks who are clean living. Broner on the streets is dangerous. A nice iron cell with bars is a better home for Broner and those like Broner. FACT

[hitking]

He will be in the same boat as the guys you look at through time and you say he should have never done such and such. Aaron Hernandez just died no less than a week ago, and if you really think about it he is a perfect example of wasted talent and opportunity. Many people do not get a chance to make it out of the hood and instead of saying let me leave this gang life alone he stayed around and paid the ultimate price for it, his freedom.

Adrien is closely similar to this simply because he wont stop being an idiot and keeps on living his life in this unadulteratedly ****** way. He tries to fight like Floyd but he isn't the best at switching from offense to defense and on top of that, he just refuses to stop getting connected to street/thuggery shyt and its unfortunate.

The difference between Hernandez and Broner is that Broner actually had a relatively tough upbringing. Hernandez grew up in one if the richest cities in America. Not excusing Broner. But to some extent, it makes sense that Broner has had trouble leaving certain people and things behind him. Because that's what he knows. Hernandez was basically an upper middle class kid that wanted to be a thug. I can be somewhat sympathetic with Broner. Even though eventually he has to grow up and realize that he's pissing away probably his only chance at being a semi-successful person. Where as even if Hernandez hadn't been a good athlete, he still had the opportunity to have a pretty good life. He's a guy that was pretty much given the world, and turned around and spit the silver spoon at it.

[Beercules]

I will always think of STAX ON DECK

He is Broner

Broners legacy will be lived through Stax