Former Champion Adrien Broner Appears Unresponsive at a Los Angeles Concert, Is Helped Down Stairs and Wheeled Out by Medics and Friends
On Saturday night, November 7, during rapper Skilla Baby's 'Price of Fame' tour stop at The Belasco theater in downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, former four-division world champion Adrien Broner, 37, appeared to become unresponsive backstage. According to TMZ, the episode unfolded on rapper Blueface's livestream: Broner was slumped on a backstage couch while an EMS worker moved in to assess and attend to him.
According to TMZ and entertainment outlets including HotNewHipHop, Hollywood Unlocked and Baller Alert, medics and Broner's friends then lifted him off the couch and helped him down a flight of stairs; he seemed to drift in and out of responsiveness on the way down, gradually recovered enough to walk with help, and was settled into a wheelchair, wheeled out of the backstage area and taken to a car outside. One report said he was later taken to a hospital, but that claim has not been corroborated by other sources.
As of Sunday morning, neither Broner nor his team had commented publicly; TMZ said it had reached out to his booking agent and received no response, and there is no confirmed account of what happened to him or why. After the livestream footage spread on social media, many boxing fans posted asking how he was doing, while some fans speculated the scene was staged for attention — a claim that is likewise unconfirmed. Nicknamed 'The Problem,' Broner rose to fame in the 2010s, won world titles in four weight divisions, and in recent years has appeared in public more often through livestreams and off-ring news.
Source: TMZ
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Photo: 图：Adrien Broner（左）2012年11月17日在大西洋城Boardwalk Hall对阵Antonio DeMarco资料图（Bryan Horowitz摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons），非本次演唱会画面。/ File photo: Adrien Broner (left) against Antonio DeMarco at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on November 17, 2012 (by Bryan Horowitz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons); not a photo from the concert.
