Comments Thread For: R. Mayweather Rips Broner: Who The F*** Did He Beat?

[maguirre]

This should serve a lesson for fans. Start the hype when the hype job beats not only a legit opponent but a proven one. Thurman has to beat one, for example.

[cameltoe]

What purpose does it serve?

Why does it have to serve a purpose? Especially to earn your validation? Roger was asked, and he gave his opinion. Can't ask for any more than that. Like I said, I don't think there was any malice in it, just Roger being Roger.

[turnedup]

Funny when it was the rest of us saying this..we were just haters. Since Mayweather's camp is like the king james bible of boxing to some there you have it...straight from Rogers mouth. I feel bad for Adrien not because he lost or because he got beat the hell up..I feel bad for him because all these fair weather fans abandoned him in the blink of an eye.

[TGD]

Interviewer: Did you hear about Broner getting upset?
Roger: I heard he got his ass whooped

LMAOOOOOOOO

Made me laugh as well. No pissing about with Roger, straight on the attack

[cameltoe]

AB bit off more than he could chew- end of. He thought he could jump through weight divisions and make anybody look ordinary. He let the 'New Mayweather' thing go to his head, when he hadn't been in the game long enough, or tested himself to know what he was capable of. Paulie should have given him an indication he wasn't ready to take on the Welterweight division, but the guy was so high on his own ego he didn't heed the warning. He didn't need to make the move so early. Plenty of good fighters at 140 to test himself with first.

Truth be told, he didn't have enough respect for other fighters, and thought he could just walk through Maidana. As uncle Roger would say "He don't know **** 'bout boxing"

[Ray*]

Interviewer: Did you hear about Broner getting upset?
Roger: I heard he got his ass whooped

LMAOOOOOOOO

Lmaoooo can't stop laughing at this quote.

[hitking]

This should serve a lesson for fans. Start the hype when the hype job beats not only a legit opponent but a proven one. Thurman has to beat one, for example.

If that's the case. Why is OK that at least half of the regulars on here have GGG's **** tonsil deep down their throats?

[hitking]

Funny when it was the rest of us saying this..we were just haters. Since Mayweather's camp is like the king james bible of boxing to some there you have it...straight from Rogers mouth. I feel bad for Adrien not because he lost or because he got beat the hell up..I feel bad for him because all these fair weather fans abandoned him in the blink of an eye.

No different from how you won't see Matthysse's name pop up around here nowhere nowadays. When there was a time when you couldn't go in a Klitschko thread without somebody saying Lucas would starch both of them.

Personally, I was surprised at what happen, but far from shocked. I fully expected AB to taste something he didn't like too much at least once in that fight. And I watched this one with my pops and honest to God. When he got dropped in the second, I busted out laughing even though I was rooting for him. I thought it was an excellent gut check moment and fully expected him to recover and go on and win the fight. Didn't realize until a couple rounds later that he wasn't right and had bitten off a lil more than he could chew.

[boxingfocus]

AB bit off more than he could chew- end of. He thought he could jump through weight divisions and make anybody look ordinary. He let the 'New Mayweather' thing go to his head, when he hadn't been in the game long enough, or tested himself to know what he was capable of. Paulie should have given him an indication he wasn't ready to take on the Welterweight division, but the guy was so high on his own ego he didn't heed the warning. He didn't need to make the move so early. Plenty of good fighters at 140 to test himself with first.

Truth be told, he didn't have enough respect for other fighters, and thought he could just walk through Maidana. As uncle Roger would say "He don't know **** 'bout boxing"

This.

Well, sort of this. I mean... he decided to take on dangerous opponents. Who the **** did Mayweather fight comparable to Maidana at 24 years of age? At 24, Floyd was owning the super featherweight division. Broner was overly audacious jumping up to welter so fast.

People forget, before Floyd started to look for real challenges i.e. the De La Hoya fight, he was almost 30.

[hitking]

AB bit off more than he could chew- end of. He thought he could jump through weight divisions and make anybody look ordinary. He let the 'New Mayweather' thing go to his head, when he hadn't been in the game long enough, or tested himself to know what he was capable of. Paulie should have given him an indication he wasn't ready to take on the Welterweight division, but the guy was so high on his own ego he didn't heed the warning. He didn't need to make the move so early. Plenty of good fighters at 140 to test himself with first.

Truth be told, he didn't have enough respect for other fighters, and thought he could just walk through Maidana. As uncle Roger would say "He don't know **** 'bout boxing"

This is where good management comes in. A fighter is gonna do what he's gone do. Its up to his management to make the decisions best suited for his long term success. As much self promoting as AB does and the whole nine. Ultimately, it was his management that made the decision that they were gonna manufacture him into a star before he had showed his worth as a fighter. And you could tell in the way they've been matching him. Demarco and Rees were good fights. AB was coming into his physical prime, and 35 was clearly his natural division. He mowed down arguably the best in the division and then a top 10 contender. But then GBP got greedy. They saw a perfect mark in Paulie to manufacture an event. Just two divisions to win a "title" in a third division. Plus, predictably the build-up was gonna be nuts. And they saw what everyone else saw. And that was AB ws good, but not redy to be successful at 47. But instead of pumping the breaks and letting him go back down and build a resume. They thought they could continue to build his "star" with careful matchmaking. Maidana was a calculated risk. Worst comes to worst, they figured AB could at least box good enough to get outta there with a decision. Miscalculation. And you can tell in sone of the moves they had been making, they were gonna continue to match him carefully. They were gonna put him in with Judah next. He lost. That's why Schaefer started to push Angulo on Canelo. He was gonna use Molina as another gimmick opponent for AB. Jump up, take a paper trinket from a guy that can't crack an egg. And after that, they were gonna cash AB out in a huge event against Floyd because there were no more safe opponents. All in al, AB is to blame. But he had a lotta up ****in' his career off along the way.