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Adrien Broner is scheduled for an upcoming PPV bout on BLK Prime, and takes some time to talk to Marcos Villegas about his comeback to boxing after going through a dark period in his life. Broner, who says he still has more to accomplish, adds that he’s put his vices in a box and is focusing on the sport so he can get back to where he needs to be. Check out some excerpts of what Broner had to say below.
“I had to dig myself out of a dark place, man. I don’t think a lot of people understand. But I’m here now and I’m on top of it and it’s time to make this shit work. I been saying it a lot lately and my motto for this fight is ‘fuck it.’ I really looked myself in the mirror and I said ‘fuck it, no more drinking, no more partying.’ The only way that I can dig myself out this hole is boxing.
“Don’t get me wrong, there’s other ways to get money out here but I’m not gonna be able to do what I want to do and live how I want to live without boxing. So I have to just say ‘fuck it’ and put my head down and go to work and that’s what I did. It was tough. I’m talking about every mile, it was tough. But now we working, we feeling good and we here.”
“What made me really say ‘fuck it’ and do it is because I felt like everybody was just looking at me and saying fuck me — not literally saying it but the way I was getting handled and the way I was getting treated, it was like ‘fuck him, let him go over here and keep fucking up and we just gonna leave him over there.’
“And that’s why I looked in the mirror and said ‘fuck it, you know what? It’s time to really stop the partying, stop the drinking, fuck everything. The only way you’re going to get yourself out of this hole is to get your shit together in the ring, get your shit together boxing, and that’s what I did.
“It’s been tough, man. I’ve had some long nights, I’ve had some long mornings, I’ve had long evenings. I’ve had long days that felt like months but I’m here, I wake up smiling, and even when I’m hurting I’m pushing through it and I’m going to be ready to go, February 25th.”
“It’s not a temptation because I don’t care for it. It’s more so like sometimes I be disappointed in myself because I know only I put myself in this position. I don’t blame nobody else.
“Could some things have been handled differently, yes, but at the end of the day I put it all on myself and that’s just the way I am. I don’t go pointing no fingers, I look myself in the mirror and say ‘I’m at this point in my career, I’m at this point in my life because of you’ and the only way I’m gonna get right is if I make the changes, if I go out here and get on this road, if I do my track workouts — if I do this. So I can’t put it on nobody else. So that’s what I did and I’m back in a good place.”
“It was dark. Sometimes you just want to be alone. Sometimes you don’t want to be with nobody and then when you are with people you just still feel alone. A lot of people won’t understand it but it took a lot for me to get out that spot and doing the shit that I was doing, and I had to stop that cold turkey and really just say ‘fuck it.’”
“I’m just going to take it a fight at a time, and my main focus is being sharp on Feb. 25th and after that we’ll see what’s on the table.”
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Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson won events during the inaugural LV Golf season
LIV Golf has announced a 14-event schedule for its 2023 league season, with seven countries hosting events as part of an expanded calendar.
All 14 events take place on weeks outside of the men’s majors and the Ryder Cup, with any potential clashes with the PGA Tour’s elevated events and Rolex Series tournaments on the DP World Tour also avoided.
LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman said: “We received tremendous feedback globally from fans throughout our beta-test year, with one resounding theme: LIV Golf’s team format, innovations, and festival-like events are delivering a one-of-a-kind golf experience.
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Phil Mickelson spoke ahead of the final event of 2022 about how much LIV Golf was a force in the game that was not going away
“Last year helped lay the foundation for the future of golf at extraordinary courses that have hosted some of the world’s top competitions. LIV Golf’s schedule features fantastic venues and championship sites for our official league launch that will carry the sport into a new era.”
El Camaleon at Mayakoba in Mexico will host the season opener from February 24-26, with The Gallery Golf Club in Tucson the venue for an Arizona-based event from March 17-19.
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Dame Laura Davies has welcomed the decision to allow golfers who joined LIV Golf to play at The Masters in 2023
Orange County National in Orlando is the venue used from March 31-April 2, the week before The Masters, while The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore hold events in successive weeks during April.
There are USA-based tournaments at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Oklahoma and Trump National in Washington DC in May, taking place the weeks either side of the PGA Championship, with former Ryder Cup venue Real Club Valderrama in Spain hosting the first of successive European events from June 30-July 2.
The Centurion Club in England – venue for last year’s inaugural event – is used again from July 6-9, while back-to-back tournaments in America take place in West Virginia and New Jersey over the first two weeks in August.
Rich Harvest Farms in Chicago is used the week before the Ryder Cup and Trump National Doral is the venue from October 20-23, before the Team Championship is held at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in Saudi Arabia from November 3-5.
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Former world No 1 Dustin Johnson gave his verdict late in 2022 about whether OWGR points should be awarded for future LIV events
Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia and Patrick Reed are some of the notable players involved, having all featured during the inaugural season in 2022.
Henrik Stenson, Bubba Watson, Louis Oosthuizen, Graeme McDowell, Martin Kaymer and Charl Schwartzel are also among the former major winners who will return for the expanded campaign.
Final rosters for the LIV Golf League will be announced prior to the league launch, when 12 established team franchises will compete in the global 14-event schedule for an unprecedented $405m in prize purses.
Former Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq has once again taken a jibe at Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling ability. He opined that Bumrah is not even close to Pakistan speedster Shaheen Afridi with respect to the quality of bowling.
Bumrah has been in and out of the Indian team for the past several months due to injuries and hasn’t been able to make a match-winning impact of late. However, he has had success, especially in Test cricket, and has proven his consistency across formats whenever fit.
Yet, speaking to a local news channel in Pakistan, here’s what Abdul Razzaq had to say about the comparison between Shaheen Afridi and Jasprit Bumrah:
“Shaheen Afridi is way better than Jasprit Bumrah. Bumrah is nowhere close to Shaheen’s level.”
Razzaq, who is also a member of Pakistan’s new selection panel, has made several such comments on Bumrah even in the past. In 2019, in an interview with Cricket Pakistan, the former all-rounder opened up on what he could have done had he played in Bumrah’s era.
He called Bumrah a ‘baby bowler’ and stated:
“I have played against great bowlers like Glenn McGrath and Wasim Akram, so Bumrah is a baby bowler in front of me and I could have easily dominated and attacked him.”
Bumrah and Shaheen are both out with long-term injuries as of now. Both are crucial to their team’s chances across formats and debates will naturally continue about who is the better bowler.
India are set to play a crucial Test series at home against Australia and will miss Bumrah’s services in the first two Tests. They will hope that he is back to full fitness soon so that he can be drafted into the squad from the third Test.
