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Adrien Broner is his own worst enemy, says Nigel Collins

Highly respected writer Nigel Collins analyses 'The Problem' Adrien Broner

BN Staff

6th October, 2015

Adrien Broner is his own worst enemy, says Nigel Collins
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IN this week’s Boxing News we have a guest column on Adrien Broner by highly respected journalist Nigel Colllins.

Whatever traction Broner might have gained by stopping Khabib Allakhverdiev last weekend was mitigated when he called out light-punching Ashley Theophane afterward, rather than an elite opponent. It was a lateral move at best, and you can’t blame his critics for thinking Broner is more interested in easy money than building a gilt-edged legacy. In some respects, Broner is a victim of his own success. He breezed though the first five years of his career so effortlessly, he must have thought it was always going to be that easy.

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