Vicente Escobedo will meet with Dr. Pearlman Hicks of Long Beach, Calif., Monday afternoon for consultation regarding surgery on a broken nose he sustained Saturday night during his WBO junior lightweight title loss to Adrien Broner. “They did a f...
CINCINNATI - Adrien Broner was stripped of his WBO junior lightweight title on Friday when he weighed in more than 3 pounds overweight. But following his fifth-round technical knockout of Vicente Escobedo on Saturday night, Broner promised there w...
Vicente Escobebo sacrificed and made weight (130 lbs), but when the bell rang, Adrien Broner weighed just 5 pounds more and Vicente likely doubled his purse. As for the fight: the economical Broner landed 45% of his power shots, closing the show by...
By Jake Donovan - With everything that went wrong prior to the opening bell, Adrien Broner needed to deliver big time to take some of the heat off of him following a weekend filled with unprofessional antics that nearly saw his latest HBO appearance...
Saturday’s fight is so important to the future of Vicente Escobedo that he’s willing to concede every advantage to his unbeaten opponent. Adrien Broner is already the A-side of the promotion, the HBO darling and is granted the benefit of hometown...
Vicente Escobedo landed nearly twice as many punches per round than Adrien Broner, while throwing nearly 30 more per round. Broner, who's displayed punching power in his last three fights, landed 43% of his power shots, while Escobedo's opponents lan...
After Vicente Escobedo’s team told krikya360.com earlier this morning that they were pulling out of tonight’s WBO junior lightweight title fight with Adrien Broner in Cincinnati, they have since been brought back to the negotiating table and come t...
Anyone who follows Adrien Broner on Twitter probably wasn’t all that surprised the former WBO super featherweight champion didn’t make weight Friday and again this morning. The ever-brash Broner (23-0, 19 KOs) tweeted numerous pictures during trai...
By Cliff Rold - All have heard some derivative on ‘threes,’ or more succinctly, that things happen in threes. It is often brought up when old time Hollywood stars pass from being. The first falls and some wait for the next two shoes to drop. O...
Undefeated former World Champion Adrien Broner (Left) and NABO Junior Lightweight Champion and number one rated WBO junior lightweight contender Vicente Escobedo (Right) pose on July 20, 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio at the weigh-in for their July 21, 201...