{"id":638850,"date":"2026-06-14T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638850\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:18:08","slug":"adrien-broner-says-one-world-champion-hit-him-so-hard-his-whole-body-went-numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638850\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner says one world champion hit him so hard his &#8216;whole body went numb&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/adrien-broner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrien Broner<\/a> competed over 40 times in his professional career but the power from one fighter in particular stands out clear in his mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/adrien-broner-on-best-fighterin-the-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broner was widely regarded as one of the stars of the sport<\/a> after becoming a three-weight world champion at just 23, and a four-weight world champion at 26, with Oscar De La Hoya the only man to have achieved that second feat at an earlier age.<\/p>\n<p>At one stage Broner had an unbeaten record of 27-0, but a criticism that he has faced throughout his career is his lack of commitment and discipline, with several losses meaning that record now stands at 35 wins from 42 fights.<\/p>\n<p>The first of those defeats came to Marcos Maidana in December 2013, with Broner losing his WBA welterweight title in a unanimous decision defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Broner was a big favourite heading into the bout, but was dropped twice throughout the contest, and over a decade on that fight still has a lasting impact on the American after <a href=\"https:\/\/vm.tiktok.com\/ZNRc9Yepg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealing on a live stream<\/a> that he was hit so hard that \u2018his whole body went numb.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Maidana held the WBA Regular super-lightweight title along with the WBA welterweight belt, and his power was evident throughout his career, with 31 victories coming by knockout.<\/p>\n<p>His win over Broner famously led to two fights with Floyd Mayweather, with the first ending in a majority decision loss for the Argentinian, before a more comfortable unanimous decision win for Mayweather in the rematch.<\/p>\n<p>That second meeting proved to be the final time that Maidana was in action, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/17258239\/marcos-maidana-retires-age-33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">retiring with a final record of 35 wins and 5 defeats.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner competed over 40 times in his professional career but the power from one fighter in particular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638850","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\/638850","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=638850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}