WBC lightweight champion Abrien Broner was reportedly arrested this morning and booked at 10:13AM by police in Miami, Florida on a battery charge. After posting $1500 bond. Rumor is around 3a.m. he was at a club called Liv and Broner apparently was in some sort of altercation, but there are no real specifics on the case right now.
Broner, 23, is one of boxing’s top young fighters. He is 26-0 with 16 knockouts and successfully defended his WBC lightweight title on Feb. 16 by knocking out Gavin Rees in Atlantic City.
Adrien Broner is no longer “Mr. HBO Boxing.”
HBO, the highest-rated boxing network, made the extraordinary decision Monday not to buy fights from Golden Boy Promotions. Broner is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and has been one of the stars of the HBO stable.
For years, HBO and Golden Boy were closely aligned, but the relationship has been rocky for the past year or so since the expiration of an output deal that Golden Boy had with HBO from 2007 until it was not renewed in 2011.
According to HBO sources, the company had grown tired of demands from Schaefer for specific dates and matchups and constant threats to take fighters to Showtime if he did not get his way. That is what happened, for example, when Golden Boy and HBO were negotiating a fight for junior middleweight titlist Alvarez, Mexico’s most popular fighter, last year. When HBO elected to go with the much-anticipated Sergio Martinez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. middleweight championship fight on pay-per-view on Sept. 15 instead of an Alvarez fight, Schaefer took him to Showtime and put on a competing network card.
Golden Boy President Oscar de la Hoya responded via twitter.
Game on!!I am so pumped to bring all the great fights to @shosports and CBS. Good luck With your captain sailing you through the Dead Sea
Showtime also recently signed Floyd Mayweather Jr., the sport’s pound-for-pound king, who had been with HBO. Mayweather works closely with Golden Boy, but wasn’t under its promotional umbrella.