And as you could imagine, that fight ends in a Majority Draw. Don?t blame Jessie Vargas or the judges, just start with Adrien Broner.
?A few years ago, AB mops the floor with Vargas,? said an all wet colleague, who said he?d make a sidepiece out of Paulie Malignaggi.
I knew better? because I know Broner.
?Why is every fight with AB a life and death struggle??wondered another media scribe. All I could do is shake my head and mutter aloud, ?He can?t win??
Adrien Broner is the only 4-division world champion Rodney Dangerfield could walk by and laugh at. He doesn?t get any respect at all, and it has everything to do with either ?AB? or ?The Problem.? If the former spent more time being ?About Boxing?, I don?t know about billions? but he would?ve drawn more of a comparison to ?Money.? As for the latter, ?The Problem?, he had more in common with ?Super Zab? than ?Pretty Boy Floyd?.
In the end, Broner may be remembered as a lesser hybrid of boast, who toasted to the good life in the ring?s bad death. But he was never counterfeit with us, nor did he succumb to any Kryptonite that allowed him to get stopped when he?s lost. ?Money? needed a rematch with Marcos Maidana, but there?s a good chance AB wouldn?t have needed another fight with Pretty Boy Floyd?s Jose Luis Castillo. I think ?The Problem? goes the distance with Kostya Tszyu.
His acceptance speech may piss off a few pastors, but Adrien Broner is going to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and among the guests in the crowd to honor him will be the ghosts of Pretty Boy Floyd and Super Zab. They were the real reasons he didn?t get any respect at all.
He just didn?t know how to be himself.
