I see your point and fyi i hate broner.I dont think he deserves a big payday but im looking at as a safe fight for pac but one that would offer some challenges. but if pac loses we can all be like good thing he didnt fight someone better. I really dont want the elite to get their hands on pac right now until i see him fight one of the these younger guys.
Who do you think pac should fight instead?
they have for a while. At BW they have the "super champ" (Burnett), the "regular" champ (Inoue) and an interim champ (Reymart Gaballo). I think they have four at Cruiser, since they have Lebedev (champion in recess), Usyk (super), Shumenov (regular) and Goularian (interim).Does the WBA really have a three-tiered belt system now? I defend the sanctioning bodies as occasionally being slightly more than pointless and parasitic organizations, but that's ridiculous.
they have for a while. At BW they have the "super champ" (Burnett), the "regular" champ (Inoue) and an interim champ (Reymart Gaballo). I think they have four at Cruiser, since they have Lebedev (champion in recess), Usyk (super), Shumenov (regular) and Goularian (interim).
I think it's funny that each sanctioning body has a really distinct shittinness unique to it. The WBA has its multiple belts, the WBC takes forever to enforce mandatories and is known to favor Mexican fighters, the WBO does literally anything Arum says and the IBF is so stuck up its own asshole that it will sabotage big fights to see its shitty mandatory fight a meaningless fight with a champion who will be stripped otherwise. Really adds a little flavor to the absurd corruption of boxing politics.I was actually misunderstanding. I thought they created a separate section from regular (as in a regular, normal, then super). It's still ridiculous, just not quite as ridiculous as I thought.
Taking a risk there, bro. Easy money is on 2 more times.I got $50 on Broner to get arrested one more time before the Pac fight then go on to lose by UD.
Focused Broner could win, but Focused Broner doesn't exist anymore, Maidana punched him out of him.
I said before that I think Maidana knocked the "fuck you" out of Broner. He had it in that fight. Even when he was getting dropped, he was still coming back and giving a good account of himself. He kept trying to win that fight.
But since then when he's down he just stays down (figuratively) and hopes for something to happen to change the tide. But he doesn't adjust, he doesn't take risks to get back in it. It's almost like the Maidana fight made him think that he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, so when it looks like the win is going to cause him to take some punishment he decides to play safe and use his "personality" to get another marquee fight.
I guess I can't hate much if that's the case - it's working.
There were some extended periods of the Vargas fight where he was actually coming forward and fighting in a way that suits his abilities (very durable, decent hand speed, a good punch selection, and surprisingly good stamina). I don't expect to see it against a guy with Pacquiao's offensive ability, but it seemed like he briefly remembered how to be a decent fighter for awhile against a guy who isn't all that bad. Broner has some good qualities as a fighter, but it's extremely rare that he ever fights in a way that actually emphasizes those qualities. Thinking he's anywhere near similar to Mayweather (he's obviously several levels lower in talent, but they're not even similar in a general sense - Broner should be a come forward fighter who puts his punches together in combination as he doesn't have good feet or much boxing ability) has really hurt his career.
That's the frustrating thing about him. At one point or another, I've seen him display the qualities of an A+ championship fighter. But I don't think I've ever seen him put them all together at the same time, at least not for a while. He became more about style than substance.
He could absolutely surprise me, dig into his bag of tricks and pull the old Adrien out. But he could've done that in several fights over the last few years and hasn't. I'm not expecting him to do it against Pac, either.
I'm not, either, but if he did, it could make for a fun fight. People enjoy Broner/Maidana because he got his comeuppance, but aside from that it was actually a very good fight precisely because he was trying to win until the final bell. Broner has shown time and again that there is no reason to have faith in him, though.