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Broner vs Garcia: Shawn Porter reflects on his points victory over Adrien Broner

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 20:  Shawn Porter (L) punches at Adrien Broner during their welterweight bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena
Image: Shawn Porter (L) analyses what it is like to face Adrien Broner

Ahead of the super-lightweight showdown between Adrien Broner and Mikey Garcia, we asked Shawn Porter to give an insight into what it is like to face 'The Problem'.

Broner is a four-weight world champion, but he will face one of his stiffest tests to date when he takes on fellow multi-division titlist Garcia this Sunday morning, live on Sky Sports.

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Former IBF welterweight world champion Porter fought Broner at a catchweight of 144lbs in 2015 and despite being dropped in the final round, he scored a unanimous points verdict on the judges' scorecards.

What was Broner like in the lead up to your fight?

Adrien Broner v Shawn Porter (Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions)

He most definitely did try and wind me up. The things he said to me in the press conference were very negative towards me and they really resembled the Floyd Mayweather we have seen in the press conferences with Conor McGregor.

I knew it was a tactic, it wasn't something he really felt or how he felt about me. For those reasons I just shrugged them off, I am not a talker and I knew my time would come on fight night. Leading up to the fight I was just really excited and anxious to fight.

How did you plan for the contest?

He was all about the show. Whenever there was a camera on him or enough people around him, he's all about the show. I accepted that and he played the game well.
Shawn Porter

I just wanted to win, get in there and fight my best and look good.

My dad came up with a great gameplan for the fight and we were kind of licking our chops because we knew he wouldn't be prepared to deal with what we were planning to do. We let the fight carry out from there.

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When you did get in the ring, what did Broner do well?

He was able to grab and hold well and that is a tactic he is going to need against Mikey Garcia. He is going to have to try and find a way to stop Garcia getting on the front foot and the grabbing and clinching was something he was able to do very well against me.

For me, Adrien Broner is a survivor not a fighter. When you are a survivor you find a way to make it through each round and although he can do that, he's got to work out how he is going to score some big shots.

And his weaknesses?

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 20:  Shawn Porter  (R) presses Adrien Broner into the ropes during their welterweight fight at MGM Grand Garden Arena
Image: Shawn Porter (R) presses Adrien Broner into the ropes

You've got to attack his brain, his mental approach. You've got to let him know you aren't going to stop, you've got to keep coming at him, feinting him, giving him different looks.

Essentially taking on Adrien Broner becomes a mind game - and if you play that game well enough, you get him rattled up and then you win 11 out of 12 rounds!

Did he switch off in the fight then?

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 20:  Adrien Broner waits in his corner before the start of a round during his welterweight fight against Shawn Porter at MGM Grand Gar

I don't think he did against me. He was pretty in-tune to the fight for the most part. I know his corner were in-tune, trying to figure things out along the way. I could hear them yelling, trying to figure out how I was going to come at them, when I was going to box and the rest.

We know Garcia hits hard, so what is Broner's chin like?

I'm not really sure to be honest. I landed some clean shots on him but between me actually landing and him holding, he was able to survive.

But then we saw him against Marcos Maidana and he can survive. He got up off the canvas a few times and even when he was on the ropes, he still survived. I think it's pretty safe to say he's got a good chin.

Did you have a newfound respect for 'The Problem' after the fight?

Shawn Porter and his father and trainer, Ken Porter
Image: Shawn Porter and his father and trainer, Ken Porter came up wit the the perfect gameplan to beat Broner

He was all about the show. Whenever there was a camera on him or enough people around him, he's all about the show. I accepted that and he played the game well.

Even at this point, I don't have much respect for the kid. He came at myself, my team, my dad, my family, the wrong way, so we don't like that. His respect for us is minimal, so we have very minimal respect for him.

Not just because of that but also because you beat him?

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Adrien Broner will have to be at his very best to beat Mikey Garcia live on Sky Sports at 1am on Sunday morning

Both. He couldn't let go of the fact that I beat him and he still can't let it go that I beat him clean, decisively and no way around it, that I was better.

It made him look bad and people still talk about that fight - probably to his face - so I think he hates it, which is why he has still acts funny towards us. We just don't give him the time of the day now.

Adrien Broner v Mikey Garcia - Tale of the Tape
Image: Tale of the Tape - Broner v Garcia

Watch Broner vs Garcia live from the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, from 1am, Sunday, July 30, on Sky Sports Action (Ch407).

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