Adrien “The Problem” Broner, 25-0 (21), makes his first WBC lightweight
title defense Saturday at Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, NJ, against
British and European lightweight champion Gavin “The Rock” Rees, 37-1-1
(18), from Wales, UK. This will be the HBO main event promoted by Golden
Boy Promotions.
Though Rees is Ranked No. 15 in the WBC he is No. 2 in the WBA while No.
1 is Richard Abril and the title vacant. Why he passed on this to take
on the more dangerous Broner time will tell. He is also No. 5 in the
WBO. His only loss was back in 2008 for the WBA light welterweight title
losing in the final round to Andriy Kotelnyk. He has since won 10 and
had a technical draw with Dery Mathews. In his last fight in July of
2012 he stopped Mathews.
Broner, is like the second coming of Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor with both
coming out of Cincinnati, OH. He has stopped 15 of his last 16
opponents. He stopped Antonio DeMarco in his last fight in November to
win the lightweight title. He had previously won the WBO Super
featherweight title in November of 2011 stopping Vicente Martin
Rodriguez. He defended that title twice including stopping Vicente
Escobar, 26-4 (15), who fight’s on the undercard against Edner Cherry,
30-6-2 (16).
NABF super middleweight champion Sakio “The Scorpian” Bika, 30-5-2 (21)
of Australia now living in L.A. meets Nikola Siekioca, 25-0 (17), of
Serbia, now living in Montenegro, who won the WBC International super
middleweight title in 2011. Bika best known for his appearance in “the
Contender” series has fought for world titles with WBC champ Markus
Beyer (TD2), IBF/WBO Joe Calzaghe (L12) and WBA Super champ Andre Ward
(L12).
Philadelphia’s Demitrius “The Gladiator” Hopkins, 32-2-1 (12) meets
Charles “Killa” Whittaker, 39-13-2 (23), of Miami, FL, who defends his
USBA title over 12. Olympian, Escobedo, 26-4 (15), of Woodland, CA,
takes on Edner Cherry, 30-6-2 (16), of Wauchula, FL, in a super
featherweight 10.
Olympian Rau’shee Warren, 2-0 (0), of Cincinnati meets Ricardo
Hernandez, 5-0 (1), in a bantamweight 4. Robert Easter, 2-0 (2), of
Cincinnati meets Jose Valderrama, 2-3 (2), in a welter 4. Philadelphia’s
Wahid Raheem, 3-0 (1), meets Ismael Serrano, making his debut in a
super featherweight 4. Jamel Herring, 1-0 (0), of Coram, NY, meets
Carlos Lopez, 4-2 (0), in a light welter 4.
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