Newly crowned WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner (27-0, 22 KOs) may be a force of nature. We don?t yet know if he?s a force to be reckoned with.
Broner is still young, but he is tearing through divisions and picking up titles at an alarming rate. Is he a boxing prodigy? Is he an idiot savant? Whatever he is, he has not, despite his many accomplishments, thus far been tested.
Adding mindreading to his growing list of skills, yesterday Broner set the record straight as to who he wants to fight next.
?You a damn fool,? he wrote to one of his 100,000+ followers, ?if you think Chino Maidana can beat me. LOL! And when I?m done with this b**ch Chino Maidana, I?m go f*** Matthysse up. Easy money.?
Although expressed in his own inimitable fashion, it sounds like Broner, a diva at heart if not inevitably in the flesh, wants a piece of the Argentineans.
But just because someone tweets doesn?t make it so.
Like everything else, Twitter is both good and bad. On the plus side, its instantaneity can?t be beat. But Twitter has also been called the devil?s playground, not inaccurately and for good reason. Becoming a Twitter celebrity has become a thing unto itself. Combine moxie and self-glorification, while tweeting a lame-ass joke here and there and before one can say ?graffiti,? you too are trending.
That?s enough for some and more power to them, whereas other are compelled to ask, why build a Tower of Babel on a foundation of quicksand?
Broner tweets avidly. Someday his tweets will be gathered, collected, compiled, edited and turned into something less ephemeral?assuming, of course, that he defeats Maidana and Matthysse.
