{"id":628316,"date":"2026-06-08T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628316\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:37:07","slug":"adrien-broner-says-former-world-champion-is-the-best-fighter-in-the-world-hes-got-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628316\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner says former world champion is the best fighter in the world: “He’s got everything”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrien Broner<\/a> has named who he sees as the sport\u2019s current flagship fighter, better than the likes of Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, Naoya Inoue<\/a> and Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most would argue that the No.1 pound-for-pound spot belongs to either Usyk or Inoue, with both having become two-division undisputed champions.<\/p>\n

More recently, Inoue has closed the gap by successfully defending his super-bantamweight crown against Junto Nakatani<\/a>, who he unanimously outpointed at a sold-out Tokyo Dome last month.<\/p>\n

Usyk, meanwhile, was also in action last month, only his performance against former kickboxer Rico Verhoeven<\/a> did not quite live up to the vast majority of expectations.<\/p>\n

Rather controversially, though, former world champion Broner has rejected both the Japanese sensation and masterful Ukrainian as his leading fighter.<\/p>\n

Instead, he continues to regard Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis, who has not fought since March 2025, as the most complete package in the sport today.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old\u2019s last outing saw him retain his WBA lightweight title with a dubious draw against Lamont Roach<\/a>, who was denied a clear 10-8 round after flooring his man in the ninth frame.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tank\u2019 was then set to face Jake Paul in an exhibition match last November, only to be removed from the lucrative opportunity due to a series of domestic violence allegations.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the WBA downgraded his status to \u201cChampion in recess\u201d, yet Broner has nonetheless told FightHype<\/a> that he still sees Davis as the top pound-for-pound fighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cTank [is the best fighter in the world]. Everything that them boys [other fighters] got, he got. But the s**t he [Davis] got, [they don\u2019t have].\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Broner is referring to the American\u2019s considerable knockout power but, either way, it seems a stretch to rank Davis in any pound-for-pound list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner has named who he sees as the sport\u2019s current flagship fighter, better than the likes of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}