Adrien Broner was interviewed by Mike Coppinger recently and, again, has said something rather baffling when he stated that he thinks he should have been given the victory over Manny Pacquiao in their January, 2019 bout.
Both men went the distance and saw Pacquiao win by a somewhat large margin on all three scorecards when the results of 117-111, 116-112, 116-112 were read out to the viewing audience.
“Shit, I was serious [when I said I felt I won the fight]. I didn’t give a fuck. I really felt like he wasn’t hitting me,” Broner said.
“He wasn’t hitting me, but when I go back and watch the fight I’m like, alright, he threw more,” Broner said to Coppinger. “He was just busier. But he wasn’t touching me with any of that stuff at all. If you go back and watch the fight with no sound, you’ll be like, ‘Wow, he really wasn’t landing.’ The crowd was just yelling but if you go back and watch the fight with no sound, you’ll see that he wasn’t landing.”
Although Broner insists that he should have won, as you can see, he gave no opinion on what he did to win the fight. Only that Pacquiao was not really hitting him cleanly. Scoring is subjective in a boxing match. The factors for what boxers do to impress the judges eyes will vary from judge to judge.
But even though Broner is somewhat correct when he stated that Pacquiao may not have hit him cleanly on a consistent basis, when there is little else to base one’s own view of what should effectively earn points, then pressure can be a deciding facet. Whether it is educated pressure or not.
Adrien will once again be boxing this upcoming Saturday night when he takes on the unbeaten Jovanie Santiago. It will have been almost two years since the boxer from Ohio has stepped into a ring for a professional fight. The contest will be taking place at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville.
Taking that into account, it can only be assumed that Broner said what he did just to try and limit any damage control to his stock so he remains a name in public demand and interest. Of his four losses none of them were particularly close. So, it cannot be suggested that he should have picked another of his defeats to express such thoughts.
The best thing Adrien Broner can do is work hard from this point forward and say little. If he wants to show that he can still be a force in boxing then he needs to physically show it. Not complain about what has already been done. Every fight is a must win for him now. Any more defeats to lesser calibre opponents will surely leave him with nowhere to go. At 31, he still has age on his side. Saturday’s bout will be shown on Showtime, so Broner should view that any interest in him that remains is still an opportunity.
Anybody close to Adrien Broner should tell him right now not to blow it.