Adrien Broner Fall From The Top? Mental Or Reached His Boxing Peak?

**Beercules** · 01-21-2021, 03:33 PM

He was the 'The next Floyd' and that Maidana loss definitely took a toll on him mentally IMO.

Plus I don't think he was that good.

Ponce de Leon beat him years back.

And he beat Paulie but some actually think Paulie won.

But he is funny as hell

**Dr Rumack** · 01-21-2021, 03:37 PM

Like many fighters he was never the same after the punishment he took from Malignaggi.

**1bad65** · 01-21-2021, 03:43 PM

Originally posted by Beercules

He was the 'The next Floyd' and that Maidana loss definitely took a toll on him mentally IMO.

Plus I don't think he was that good.

Ponce de Leon beat him years back.

And he beat Paulie but some actually think Paulie won.

But he is funny as hell

His whole career path was to be Floyd 2.0

Just like his idol; he was going to be undefeated and brash, and people would pay to see the latest challenger take him on and hopefully finally beat him, but come up short again. Rinse, and repeat. Get rich in the process.

Once Maidana humbled him on free TV, Broner had no Plan B. So he lost his desire and thus the losses and his out of ring ******ity added up.

A mentally strong fighter would have learned from the loss, trained harder and corrected his flaws, and gotten back on track.

Broner didn't have that mentality, and so he is now basically a sideshow act, hoping to get a few big paydays before he has to retire.

**DeanoFlash** · 01-21-2021, 03:44 PM

He has bad feet and poor ring discipline. He also was rushed up in weight chasing belts too young. A number of things.

**IceTrayDaGang** · 01-21-2021, 03:54 PM

reached his peak!! he cant be any better than his best version which we saw already.. this is why he's out fvvvking around because he knows it.

**Beercules** · 01-21-2021, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by 1bad65

His whole career path was to be Floyd 2.0

Just like his idol; he was going to be undefeated and brash, and people would pay to see the latest challenger take him on and hopefully finally beat him, but come up short again. Rinse, and repeat. Get rich in the process.

Once Maidana humbled him on free TV, Broner had no Plan B. So he lost his desire and thus the losses and his out of ring ******ity added up.

A mentally strong fighter would have learned from the loss, trained harder and corrected his flaws, and gotten back on track.

Broner didn't have that mentality, and so he is now basically a sideshow act, hoping to get a few big paydays before he has to retire.

That Maidana beat down was a classic

**KTFOKING** · 01-21-2021, 03:58 PM

Broner just wasn't THAT good. Inconsistent fighter and he had a few tough fights before going up to WW. People just point to the Maidana fight but Broner struggled with Quintero and Ponce De Leon at 130 and then struggled with Malignnagi in his first fight at WW.

Now, he started to put together some dominant performances at 135 but the flaws were always there and he never corrected them.

**TheBoxGod** · 01-21-2021, 07:23 PM

Adrien Broner I thought Lost to Quintero, Ponce prior to becoming AB.

**Eff Pandas** · 01-21-2021, 07:32 PM

Probably a combo of all of it, but I think he mentally couldn't handle the level he was on in the sport more than anything. I mean the fact he's had so many ups & downs in life suggests that. Pressure can be a mfer. Success can be a mfer. Sometimes guys inner demons are worse than the ones in real life. And I think Broner probably talks all the sh^t he does not cuz he's trying to convince the fans or other fighters, but cuz he's trying to convince himself. I suspect he probably feels inside that he doesn't deserve the success he's had & a lot of his issues are being self destructive cuz he feels he doesn't deserve it.

*sits down in a fancy chair to await my next amateur psychiatrist client*

Adrien Broner Fall From The Top? Mental Or Reached His Boxing Peak?