Could Floyd Mayweather fight Adrien Broner in a Rocky Balboa-Tommy Gunn like showdown in the ring between Big Bro and Lil Bro?
The relationship between Mayweather and Broner used to be rock solid in the past, but after disparaging comments made by Broner about Mayweather’s ‘Money Team,’ the relationship appears as thin as rice paper.
Broner (31-2, 23 KO’s) rebounded from a one-sided defeat to Shawn Porter in June to claim the vacant WBA World super lightweight champion with a TKO victor over Khabib Allakhverdiev in October.
Last week, Broner was promoted as Super Champion by WBA President Gilberto Mendoza after considering the 26-year-old’s career accomplishments.
Three weeks ago, Broner attended the BET Hip Hop Awards where he stated “F— The Money Team” – a statement in which Mayweather has taken offense and went as far to say that Broner should not even consider himself a world champion.
“He loses to Shawn Porter, then you fight for a world title right after that, for a vacant title, you and your opponent coming of losses…me as a fighter, if I lost a fight, there’s no way in hell that my next fight
I would be fighting for a title against another guy that’s coming off a loss. I wouldn’t even be proud or consider myself a champion,” Mayweather said exclusively to FightHype.
“He needs to be thanking The Money Team because, at the end of the day, Al Haymon is part of the Money team. Everything is under the same umbrella when it’s all said and done. If you saying, ‘F— Al Haymon, you saying, ‘F— Floyd Mayweather!”
Though Mayweather is now retired, he has spent his entire career proving guys wrong. His record of 49-0 with 26 knockouts speaks for itself.
After receiving a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Mayweather immediately made a splash at the professional level.
Before his 11th professional bout against Felipe Garcia in October 1997, Mayweather asserted that he would become a world champion the following year; that he was going to beat Genaro Hernandez easily.
People thought Mayweather was crazy.
On October 3, 1998, Mayweather fought Hernandez at the Las Vegas Hilton for the WBC World super featherweight title, and the fight was not even close as Hernandez’s corner halted the fight after the eighth round in what was one of Mayweather’s finest performances.
We can go on and on. From Mayweather’s annihilation of a previously undefeated Diego Corrales to his signature victories over Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, and Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather has spent his career silencing his critics.
We can recall following his victory over De La Hoya in May 2007; Mayweather announced his retirement. However, taunts from Great Britain’s Hatton came off as pompous, and Mayweather immediately signed a contract with the goal of teaching him a lesson.
The result? Although Hatton had success early in the fight, Mayweather broke him down as the fight went on and won via 10th round TKO.
If Mayweather is interested in returning for a 50th and final fight to break Rocky Marciano’s 60-year record, and to give a harsh lesson to an ex-protégé, he is very capable of doing so.
– Ryan O’Hara @OHaraSports
Leave a Reply