Adrien Broner apologizes for negative MMA comments, but he’s still not a fan

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Adrian Broner said this yesterday about MMA on Fightyhype (with a mouth full of jewels that cost more than you and I will make all year):

“I’m really not too big on MMA. I really don’t look at it as a real sport because anybody can come into MMA and learn that. You can learn that, listen, you can’t just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You’ve got to be born with it … Like you, (to interviewer) right now, you can go into MMA, learn all the submission moves and be a world champion. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. I don’t give a f*** what you do, you can try to come over to boxing, and you won’t ever be a world champion. I’m not disrespecting you, but I’m just saying, that’s how it works.”

Today, our Michael Mardones decided to follow-up with the 24-year-old, 27-0 (22 knockouts) boxer, to see if he regretted what he said. And although he apologized for what he said, he moreso apologized for how he said it:

“I know they work hard because it’s a sport, everyone who plays a sport works hard. I can’t say I’m a fan of MMA, that’s what I’m saying. I don’t like it but I’ll watch it because there’s a lot of knockouts. The sense of me being a boxer and having to go through being what I have to get where I am, it’s different from someone waking up and learning some submission moves and being a champion.”

Well, that’s just simply not how it works, especially today, Adrian. Being a full package, title material in MMA is starting to become a childhood endeavor much like boxing, where we are seeing kids who have wrestled since grade school now mixing the sweet science into their routines more often now in college or before. Damn, I wish I could wake up, learn a submission and be champion, I mean, wouldn’t we be seeing everyone in the UFC then?

“Boxing is more of an art.”

Let Adrien respond further. It’s good.