Adrien Broner

Adrien Jerome Broner (born July 28, 1989) is an American professional boxer and the current WBA (Super) super lightweight champion. He is a four-weight world champion, having previously held the WBC lightweight, WBO super featherweight and WBA welterweight titles. He reached a peak position of #6 pound for pound by The Ring magazine.

Professional boxer

Adrien Broner became a three-division world champion by the age of 23. He is a Cincinnati native, who started boxing when he was 6 years old, and stated that the sport saved him from a life on the streets.

Fighting style

Adrien Broner is an orthodox fighter with good speed, power and boxing skills, who has widely drawn comparisons to Floyd Mayweather, Jr., due to his implementation of the 'shoulder roll' defensive tactic and counterpunching skills, and also for his persona outside of the ring.

Super Featherweight

Adrien Broner is a boxer who turned professional on May 31, 2008 and scored three consecutive first round knockouts against Allante Davis, David Warren Huffman and Ramon Flores. In Broner's fourth fight he faced Terrance Jett at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on the undercard of the Ricky Hatton vs Paulie Malignaggi fight. Broner defeated Jett with a stoppage in the sixth round. In Broner's fifth professional fight and final of 2008, he faced Scott Furney on the undercard of Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao fight. Broner stopped Furney in the first round bringing his record to 5(5)-0-0.

Adrían Granados

Adrián René Granados (born August 14, 1989 in Berwyn, Illinois) is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent, who fights in the Light Welterweight division. With a record of 17-4-2, every loss or draw has been either a 'split decision' or a 'majority decision' with some being considered robberies against Granados.

Amateur career

Granados had an amateur record of 75-12. He's won the 2008 Junior Olympic State and Regional Championship. That same year he ranked 5th in National Rankings at junior welterweight. In the 2009 he took both the Junior Golden Gloves National Championships and then won the bronze medal at the Ringside World Championships. Granados was also on the Mexican Olympic Team Reserve.

Professional career

On September 17, 2011 Granados beat the veteran Trenton Titsworth at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois.

Granados lost a majority decision to Manuel Félix Díaz for the World Boxing Council Central American Boxing Federation title.

Granados fought on the undercard of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao. On that card Granados lost to Brad Solomon by split decision.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. (born Floyd Joy Sinclair; February 24, 1977) is an American retired professional boxer. Undefeated as a professional and a five-division world champion, Mayweather won twelve world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes (twice in the welterweight division). He is a two-time winner of the Ring magazine Fighter of the Year award (1998 and 2007); a two-time winner of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year award (2007 and 2013); and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014).BoxRec currently rates Mayweather as the fifth greatest pound for pound fighter of all time, and the greatest pound for pound welterweight of all time.

Many sporting news and boxing websites rated Mayweather as the best pound for pound boxer in the world twice in a span of ten years, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. Mayweather topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013, and the Forbes list again in 2014 and 2015, listing him as the highest paid athlete in the world. In 2007, He founded Mayweather Promotions, his own boxing promotional firm after defecting from Bob Arum's Top Rank.

February 18

February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of the year (317 in leap years).

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Chris Brown

Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, dancer, rapper and actor. Born in Tappahannock, Virginia, he was involved in his church choir and several local talent shows from a young age. Having signed with Jive Records in 2004, Brown released his self-titled debut studio album the following year. It peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200 and was later certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With his first single "Run It!" peaking atop the US Billboard Hot 100, Brown became the first male artist as a lead since Diddy in 1997 to have his debut single top the chart. His second album Exclusive (2007) spawned his second Hot 100 number one "Kiss Kiss", in addition to "With You" and "Forever". The album was also certified double platinum by the RIAA.

In 2009, Brown received much media attention after pleading guilty to felony assault of his then girlfriend, singer Rihanna; he was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service. His third album Graffiti was released later that year, and included the top-twenty single "I Can Transform Ya". Brown's fourth album F.A.M.E. (2011) became his first to top the Billboard 200; it spawned the successful singles "Yeah 3x", "Look at Me Now", and "Beautiful People". F.A.M.E. earned Brown his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. His fifth album Fortune was released in 2012. However, after the release of Exclusive, Brown's albums have not been well received commercially or by music critics, with the exception of X, which received a normalized rating of 63. Brown's seventh studio album Royalty was released on December 18, 2015.