When Adrien Broner was late to Tuesday’s press convention Don King was left asking his employees: “The place’s our downside little one?”
For the poster promoting Broner’s struggle on Friday with Blair Cobbs, slated for the Seminole Laborious Rock Resort and On line casino in Hollywood on Friday, it questioned whether or not Broner, 35-4-1 (24 KOs), would present as much as the competition.
It appeared like he may not make the media convention on the similar venue on Tuesday. He did, however he was late and everybody else, together with the 16-1-1 (10 KOs) Cobbs, had spoken by the point the fighter from Cincinnati arrived on the stage.
“We will’t appear to get my man,” mentioned a disgruntled King at first. “He did present up final time [to last week’s public workouts]. He did present up and he was on time, however he’s again to the standard.
“That’s why we placed on the poster [to advertise the fight], ‘If he exhibits up’. As a result of everybody was saying, ‘Don’t mess with him, don’t mess with him. He won’t present. He won’t this. He won’t that’. However the satan be damned. I don’t go along with that. I give all people the chance to do their factor.
“The man who’s sitting there, Blair – Blair could be there. Blair would present.”
Cobbs, tongue in cheek, mentioned: “Thanks all people for displaying as much as this one.”
At one level, King was requested whether or not he was assured Broner could be there on Friday for the struggle.
“Solely God is aware of that,” the promoter replied.
Then, with phrase of Broner’s arrival in his ear, King mentioned: “They are saying he’s right here now so when he comes up right here you possibly can ask him that query, as a result of I wish to know, too.”
In the meantime, Cobbs had joked: “He’s bought a watch. It simply doesn’t inform the best time.”
Upon Broner’s eventual arrival, some half-hour after the beginning, the 34-year-old apologized and likewise thanked these in attendance, saying: “Like I inform all people else, y’all can’t struggle for me, y’all ain’t gonna lose this weight for me, and y’all rattling certain ain’t gonna run a mile for me, so I’m not gonna cease doing what I’m doing simply to return and please you motherfuckers who ain’t gonna put no cash in my pocket.
“What I’m tryin’ to inform y’all was I needed to deal with my enterprise. I needed to get my work performed earlier than I speak s***.
“I confirmed up. Generally you simply gotta make all people a believer.”
