They?re still mopping up at the Alamodome. The dust has settled. History is being rewritten. Head scratching has made way for skullduggery. And Adrien Broner is being scrutinized, more from a boxing than sociological standpoint, after the whupping he received from Marcos Maidana.
Some blame Broner?s loss on inexperience; he?s a young fighter in love with his press clippings, he bit off more than he could chew. Some believe he had a bad night. Some think character defeated him in the end. While others insist that it?s Mother?s Little Helper, administered to Maidana between rounds by master trainer Robert Garcia?that doomed the promising prizefighter.
It?s not over for Broner. He?ll be back. We?ve not seen the last of him in the ring. We may not have seen the last of him in the Chicken Shack.
In the meantime, there are experts to consult, experts to observe and extol. One such expert is Roger Mayweather, longtime trainer (and uncle) of Floyd Mayweather, the fighter to whom Broner was most often compared, unfavorably as it turned out.
When asked what he thought about Broner?s performance against Maidana, the Black Mamba was in his element.
?I haven?t seen it but I heard about it,? he said. ?I ain?t gonna watch him because he ain?t gonna fight my nephew. He got his ass whupped now. I can?t even see now what they say about the ?next boxing superstar.? Who the fuck did he beat? That?s what I want to know. Who did he beat? They want the next star, but the next star has to beat somebody to declare itself a star. He ain?t never beat no fucking nobody. Who he beat??
When asked if he ever thought Broner was ?really great? prior to the Maidana fight, Roger said, ?No, I ain?t seen nothing of that. I ain?t never seen any of that. He had a good win, he had a win?I mean anybody can have a win. But in boxing you gotta keep winning. One win don?t mean nothing. Most guys get a win.?
There?s no arguing with Roger Mayweather. When asked about people ?hating? and gloating now that Broner lost, Mayweather made a face. ?You know why? Because the motherfucker wasn?t what people thought he was. They thought he was the next Floyd Mayweather, until they found out. Now he got his ass whupped, now people are saying, ?Aw, this motherfucker wasn?t no Floyd.? I knew goddamned well he wasn?t.?
Asked if the loss would humble Broner, Roger answered in the affirmative.
?The loss going to humble him, and the next time he fight, he?s going to get more of a challenge because people see now how he got beat. So they probably figured, well, we?ll probably give him a chance. But, at the same time, he?s beatable. He?s a beatable guy. He ain?t Floyd. He?s a beatable guy. That?s the thing about boxing. There?s a pattern. He can be beat.?
