Rios picks Maidana to beat Broner

[East Side Boxing]

Brandon Rios is picking #2 WBA to defeat WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner (27-0, 22 KO’s) in their pay-per-view fight on Showtime on December 14th at the MGM Grand, Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Rios thinks that Broner isn’t unhittable like Floyd Mayweather Jr., and he likes the power that Maidana has after sparring 10 rounds with him. Rios says the sparring with Maidana was pretty brutal. Rios told esnewsreporting.com “I think it’s going to be a tough fight, but I think he [Maidana] can pull it off. Broner showed [against Paulie Malignaggi] that he can be hit. He’s not like Mayweather. When Maidana cracks, he cracks hard.” It’s going to be a whole different experience for Broner to be facing a slugger like Maidana because he’s never faced anyone with that kind of power before during his career. The closest thing that Broner has come to in facing a slugger like Maidana was against super featherweight Daniel Ponce De Leon two years ago in 2011. Broner won the fight by a controversial 10 round unanimous decision, but Broner really struggled in that bout. De Leon kept pressuring Broner and nailing him with big shots, and it […]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?i=utbT_ISdRKc:YkkVvzxdTdo:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?d=qj6IDK7rITs

 

 

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