Broner fight called off

Adrien Broner will move up to lightweight without another fight at 130lbs after his defence against Vicente Escobedo was called off.

American fails to make revised weight for title defence

Adrien Broner will move up to lightweight without another fight at 130lbs after his defence against Vicente Escobedo was called off. The American was stripped of the WBO super-featherweight title after he weighed in three-and-a-half pounds over the limit at Friday's weigh-in, earning him a $30,000 fine in the process. Escobedo's team then agreed to keep the fight on, but only if Broner tipped the scales at no more than 140lbs on the morning of the fight. But Broner was again over the agreed limit, this time by three pounds, at which point Escobedo refused to go ahead with the contest. Broner has quickly become hot property in the United States, winning the title with victory over Vicente Rodriguez inside three rounds last year before making his sole defence against Eloy Perez, stopping him in the fourth. However, the developments in his home town of Cincinnati will hardly do much for his public appeal or with his American paymasters at HBO.