Former WBA super lightweight champion Regis Prograis has called rival Adrien Broner as "just a clown".
Despite this, Prograis said that he believed that he and Broner would make the "biggest fight" in the junior welterweight class, in part due to the rivalry between the pair.
New Orleans fighter Prograis is keen to make the fight with Broner, the 31-year-old former WBC, WBA and WBO champion.
Speaking on the PBC Podcast, Prograis talked up the merits of a fight with Broner compared with the rest of the division’s fighters.
“I think that’d be a huge fight, you know,” he said.
“I always said that if they make that fight between me and Broner, that’ll be the biggest fight they can make at 140. Nobody won’t even pay attention to no other fights, just because of me and him.
“We both got loud mouths, we’re both a little arrogant, we both talk a lot, you know, and we both know all the same people. We both like in the hip hop world and all that stuff. I know the same people he know, and we kinda talk through those people all the time about how we gonna f— each other up and stuff.”
Prograis admitted that while the pair had exchanged insults in the past, he believes there is a lack of genuine bad feeling between the pair.
“I don’t think it’s bad blood,” Prograis admitted.
“To be honest, I don’t think Adrien Broner has bad blood towards nobody. He’s just a clown. Everybody knows he’s a clown and stuff like that, you know. But I don’t think it’s bad blood. It’s not bad blood, but it’s definitely competitiveness.
“It’s not bad blood between me and him, where we genuinely don’t like each other. He don’t really know me, and I don’t really know him for it to be like bad blood and stuff like that. So, I say I’ll whip Adrien Broner’s ass. That’s all. I’ll say I think I can stop him. I think I’ll be the first person to stop him.”