Boxing Has Failed Adrien Broner
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Former four-weight class world boxing champion Adrien Broner is living in crisis. In the words of his friend and former promotional stablemate, welterweight champion Errol Spence, Jr., "he's a addict."
A video of Broner went viral with him visibly drunk on the Danza Project podcast. Broner began talking recklessly about everyone, from the Charlo brothers to his former advisor, Al Haymon.
When the podcast host asked whether Broner has anyone to take care of him, 'About Billions,' replied, "Yeah, I was just an idiot. I did damn…ah, still got him. I can't even talk about it, still got him."
Broner x Beverages
When one of the hosts tried to add his point, Broner, cutting him off, said, "That ain't about nothing about what you talking about…still got him. I call him every day, ah, every day. I talk to Al Haymon every day!…Yeah, he's a billion-dollar n***a…I talk to that n***a every day. Look, I am drunk, I am sorry."
"The Danza Project" had Broner for a live interview released on Monday through YouTube. The 33-year-old spoke slowly and incoherently, repeating himself, showing that he had relapsed to the Broner, who had been chronically unfocused.
Broner recently won a fight with Bill Hutchinson on June 9, which was his first bout in over two years. It was his first with new promoter Don King, and he's only fought twice in the last four years.
Ethical Podcasting
Immediately, the internet and boxing standouts slammed the podcasters for showcasing Broner in that state. The Danza Project ended up removing the full interview. They also shared how difficult it was to lock in the appearance.
"We rescheduled the show 3 straight days and we took the interview down immediately following the live stream," the show wrote on Twitter.
"None of us planned for that … it was tough," one of the hosts said.
Broner admitted on the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast that he was broke due to the mismanagement of his earnings and had an addiction to alcohol.
A Dirty Game
"The last straw for me was … It went from $2500 a day, two thousand a day, $1500 a day," Broner said on the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast. "It was my fault, that's why I don't point no fingers; the position I was in, the trouble I was in.
"I anything hit my account, I would have to spend it that night because if I didn't, in the morning the government was taking it or my lawsuits, they garnishing my wages and all that sh*t so everything I was getting sent would have to be spent that day. Then it went down to a thousand a day, $1200 a day, $750 a day, $500 a day, $250 a day, once it got to $250 a day!
"When it got to $250 a day, me being drunk every day, broke every day, getting another $250 that day. We fitting to run off on somebody or go back to what we know. When the sh*t happened, I wasn't going to the gym. I couldn't even watch boxing. Then I went to the gym, came out, got drunk every day. It was like that, and then I got into it with my coach Kevin Cunningham."
Boxing gave Adrien Broner an amazing life of fame and access. Boxing also failed Broner by not preparing him for success. Adrien Broner is a grown man, and boxing was never nere to save him.