This week, the top 4-division world champion Adrian Brona (34-4-1, 24KO) turned to Floyd Mayweather for help via social media, hoping that the other side would save his career. Bronner, 32, pleaded with Mayweather to use his magic, just as he did with "tank" Gwota Davis, to help him make a breakthrough again.
Bronner has only achieved an embarrassing record of 1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw since 2018, and after losing one-sidedly to Manny Pacquiao, he returned to boxing last February against third-rate boxer Giovanni Santiago, and although he beat his opponent on points, the victory was questionable, because in the first leg of the match, Bronner was almost without a single punch, but the two referees decided that he was ahead of the round.
Bronner pleaded with Mayweather like this: "I miss you, man, I know we haven't been in touch for a while, but to be honest, I think you're needed the most right now, especially at this time in my career.
Mayweather has yet to respond to Brona's pleas for help and is unclear how he will help, but the reality is that it's too difficult for Bronner to make a breakthrough again because he can't play at a high level in the 140-pound ultra-lightweight and 147-pound sub-weights. Bronner used to excel at the 130-pound Super Featherweight and 135-pound Lightweight, but that was years ago.
If Mayweather really decided to save Brona, what would he do? In addition to improving the opponent's form, it may be to provide Bronner with some "mobs", brush up on the record, or maybe to return Bronner to a lower level, because today's 140 or 147 pounds, Bronner has no ability to do anything.
Bronner rose to 147 pounds 9 years ago, and soon he found himself overwhelmed at this level, that is, the lack of strength and physical confrontation, the speed advantage has weakened a lot, even if Mayweather is involved, Bronner will not change much, as for the reduction of 130 pounds, 135 pounds, the idea is very good, but whether Bronner can do this is unknown, after all, need to lose too much weight.
The best moment of Bronner's career was at 130-135 pounds, in this range he had a physical advantage, the strength is also quite outstanding, after rising to 147 pounds in 2013, Bronner soon began to decline, of which the fiasco Marcus Medana is a good example, facing the physically strong Maddana, Bronner's speed, strength advantage is gone.
In Brona's view, Mayweather, as a promoter today, can help Davis reach the top and can also help himself, but many people feel that Davis's achievements cannot be entirely attributed to Mayweather, because he has outstanding talent, even if he does not cooperate with Mayweather, he will be quite good under the leadership of other promoters, and even some boxing fans believe that Mayweather is more likely to protect Davis, so that he avoided Vasily Lomachenko a few years ago, otherwise Davis is very likely to suffer defeat.
Back to Bronner, how much he has left is only his own best, in the author's opinion, Davis to solve the problem, must start from himself, a strong promotion team is only one aspect. With Brona's repeated defeats, he may have collapsed psychologically, which led to a series of negative reactions, but if Bronner wants to get back on track, the first question is to have a correct attitude, he can't think about rising while still sleeping at home, if so, even with the help of the gods, it is difficult to change.