Please Stop it! Adrien Broner Has NEVER Been a World Champion

Boxing has been ruined for the last half-century by the growing amount of weight divisions and the 4+ “champions” in each class. This was painfully evident during the Showtime broadcast of the Broner-Garcia fight. I threw up a little bit each time someone referred to Broner as being a champion in four different weight classes. What did I miss here? Let’s take a look at Broner’s four “World Titles”. We see this crap all of the time anymore, as a few years ago would see a graphic comparing Deontay Wilder’s consecutive title defenses being compared historically with actual legends when the truth was that Wilder was never the true Heavyweight champion. Today we will look at the authenticity of Adrien Broner’s four world titles. Check out the top boxing betting sites!

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Title #1 Vicente Martin Rodriguez – Won the Vacant WBO Super Featherweight title

This was a win over a man that is nowhere to be found in The Ring Magazine ratings at Super Featherweight. One title defense against nondescript opposition and a forfeiture of his trinket on the scales followed before Broner decided to move up. The Ring Ratings never ranked Broner higher than number 5. There is no way this belt crowned him a World Champion.

Title #2 Antonio DeMarco – Won WBC World Lightweight Title

This is the closest Broner ever got to being a “True” World Champion. He beat the #1 man in Antonio DeMarco to win a title and then beat 6th-ranked Gavin Rees. The problem comes that instead of unifying with Miguel Vazquez, #2 in the ratings at the time, he moved up in weight again. I believe Broner would have beaten him, but he never did.

Title #3 Paul Malignaggi – Won WBA Welterweight Championship

He defeated the light-hitting Malignaggi in a closely contested contest, but Floyd Mayweather was the “True” Welterweight champion of the world. In Broner’s first title defense he was beat up and mocked by Argentine slugger Marcos Maidana.

Title #4 Khabib Allakhverdiev – Won Vacant WBA Super Lightweight Championship

This fight did not make Broner a “True” World Champion either. Haymon gave Broner a gift by pairing him up with a former holder of the trinket who hadn’t had a win in over two years, and who was not originally the mandatory.

Adrien Broner was a talented fighter who may have been a legit World Champion if he had worked as hard at being a boxer as he did to promote himself. His style was to be like his “Big Brother” Floyd Mayweather, pot-shotting people with his superior speed. Too bad for Broner he never had the skill or the work ethic of Floyd. Hopefully, Broner will just disappear into the sunset.