The predictions are rolling in for Saturday's megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and young welterweight champion Adrien Broner is making bold statements in favor of his "big brother."
When asked what Canelo will need to do to overcome the massive challenge of topping the undefeated Mayweather Broner responded "He's gotta have a gun. He definitely needs a gun. I'm talking about a gun with hollow tips in it. He needs a fully loaded clip."
If Mayweather is able to defeat Alvarez, his strongest challenger in years, a fight with the rising Broner could become a fight boxing fans clamor for, despite Broner's frequent quotes about never fighting his mentor.
While the two are close, and Mayweather admits to trying to lend a guiding hand to the young Broner, their relationship isn't purely deferential. Mayweather said that "The Problem" doesn't always take his advice, and declined an invitation to join "Money" on his press tour earlier this summer.
Mayweather has also advised Broner to tamp down his wild antics and over-the-top braggadocio to no avail.
"I think he's young," Mayweather said. "And the difference between me and Adrien Broner, you've got to know when to turn it on and when to turn it off. So that's the difference. You've got to know the difference when it's time to entertain and when it's time, you know, to relax and just to stay focused and make sure that your team is right and everything is right around you."
Broner claims to be the same man he ever was-- "You can go to my first-grade teacher, man, I was the same way. Ain't nothing changed about me but the change. I only got richer, that's it."
If Broner continues to stray from his "big brother's" advice, or shows any kind of disrespect, then Floyd Mayweather Sr. doesn't think it's impossible for "Money" to decide Broner needs a lesson.
"You say you ain't gonna do this, you ain't gonna do that. Let something go wrong. Let Broner say something wrong that Floyd don't like," Floyd Sr. said.
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