Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
https://www.boxingnews24.com/2022/08...alth-problems/

"Adrien Broner Pulls Out Of Omar Figueroa Jr Fight Due To Mental Health Problems"



At the risk of incurring the wrath of the PC police, I gotta raise not one eyebrow... but a whole set of eyebrows to this.

There has to be at least a million one-liners that come to mind right now, but of course I don't want to seem "insensitive."


All I gotta say is, Adrien Broner... "mental health issues." I'll just let that marinate for a bit.


Are you f*cking kidding me?? REAL mental health issues is a real and serious issue, one that many people have to deal with. But at the same time it lends itself to claim abuse by any Joe, Dick and Harry who wants an easy bail on something. Of course, as soon as someone claims "mental health issues", no one will touch that with a 20-foot pole, lest they be accused of being insensitive to the poor soul. It's almost like the "Me Too" trend, where now even someone like George Foreman is being accused of sexual harassment for something that allegedly occurred sometime in the last millennium.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Broner doesn't have any mental health issues, other than those he's always had... which admittedly are quite many. IMO, he's just a buffoon who has overstayed his welcome in boxing way too long and needs to go back and reestablish himself somewhere else in life.
You can look through the previous threads and see the common theme about Broner- self destructive (a sign of mental illness). I don't disagree with your point- I think he has always had his form of mental illness which has led to some of the most erratic and frustrating behavior and that this is likely a similar version where he likely didn't train or lose the weight more than depression...etc. That being said, I'm not a doctor and not his doctor so that is speculation on my part.

Great points brought up prior to this announcement where Broner is fun to watch/entertaining and an ATM due to his outlandish behavior and ability to keep our attention. No matter what I hope the guy gets help and gets his act together/emotions under control- I'm skeptical that he will accept the need for help and do the work needed to get himself together, unfortunately. The bigger issue to me is the world we live in- we as a society say we are sympathetic to mental health but in reality we encourage self destructive behavior by rewarding those individuals with our money/attention while they are imploding and then ignoring them when they stop. Broner isn't the best example of this, but I feel he is an example of society rewarding self destructive behavior.