Brief clip of Broner talking about the Maidana fight

Fair play to Broner he took it like a man.

 

Loved watching him get clowned

 

I think Broner is one of the few fighters so far this century who have had the potential to become a crossover star in the sport. His performance against Gavin Rees was phenomenal, and I recall thinking he had everything to become a potential megastar after I watched that. However, he would spend more time in the club than in the gym, and the Maidana fight is where it all came to a head. Still though, one of the most satisfying beatdowns in the history of the sport.

 

Years later... at the time Broner immediately left the ring following the announcement without speaking to anyone, getting boo'd and having stuff thrown at him.

 

I think Broner gets unfairly hated in all honesty. He showed a lot of heart and grit in the Maidana fight, and it’s so often treated like a beatdown that people forget it’s actually a really good, competitive fight. Broner never ducked anybody, was in his fair share of quality fights, and was genuinely very talented before eating his way through divisions and losing his dedication to his career.

 

He was a Glass Jawed overhyped fighter.

 

Lmao, Broner is a lot of things, but he sure as **** can take a punch. He has never been stopped and pretty rarely dropped even when he does get hit flush, which happens fairly often. He was overhyped by some at the time, sure, but he never gets any credit nowadays for what he accomplished which just seems a bit unfair.

 

Agreed, even though I partake in crapping all over him for his poor life choices.

Broner was a future Hall of Famer at 135 with a thick neck and head, which explains his great chin.

Broner's style of a counter-puncher with power who is capable of hurting opponents with scraping shots worked well at lightweight. At 135 he would hurt guys with those shots then finish. At 147 he wasn't hurting guys as easily he hesitated to throw more or even enough. He bounced shots off Maidana's head to little effect.

In short he didn’t understand that he needed to change his style when he moved up in weight class. He also failed to adjust when his power didn’t move up with him. When this occurs you need to become a higher volume puncher who throws in combinations in order to wear down your opponent like Pacquiao did.

Then after Pac he became a meme...

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He moved up through the weights way too quickly, and the power never moved with him.

Also through between 6-10 punches per round as well which didn’t help.

 

I'm personally of the belief that Broner always fought with the wrong style in all honesty. He has broad shoulders, a quality chin, and is genuinely heavy-handed. I think he would have made an excellent pressure fighter, and I think he proved as much in the lower weights when he realised he was durable enough and big enough to just walk guys down and beat them up without needing to worry about how good his Mayweather cosplay is.

 

Yeah his you can’t hit me **** while Paulie was peppering him with slaps was cringe lol.

 

His toughness has always been underrated. In the end he stood his ground, and fought fire with fire.
Bit of a shame that this loss derailed his career as bad as it did, but it is what it is.

For clarification, I know his career was smoke and mirrors, but the fact that he peaked at 24 is kinda crazy, and I wish we had seen more. Not that he didn't get any opportunities.

 

the memes that followed the fight were amazing haha

 

Broner was a monster at 135. Doesn’t matter what happened to him higher up the weights, or how much you may have disliked his personality - but he was hard hitting, punches bounced off him, and he had decent skills too - at 135 he may have been a bit of a “weight bully”, but he was anything but glass jawed.