Adrien Broner Ordered to Spend 30 Days in Jail: Latest Details and Comments

Former WBA super lightweight champion Adrien Broner has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for missing a scheduled court appearance Tuesday. 

Per Kevin Grasha of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Judge Robert Ruehlman found Broner to be in contempt of court for not showing up to a trial and ordered him to serve the time.

Broner was due to appear in court after being indicted in April on charges of felonious assault, aggravated robbery and robbery stemming from a January incident outside of a Cincinnati bowling alley.

Per Grasha, Broner did show up in court Tuesday, but not until "around noon," by which time Ruehlman had already issued the arrest warrant. Broner told the judge that "somebody put something in my drink" the night before and that he had "been sick all morning."

Grasha noted that Ruehlman said he "may have" dismissed Broner's case if he had been punctual. "He looks like he’s drunk or hungover," the judge said after the boxer showed up late. "To coin a little boxing phrase—you’re not ducking this one."

The 26-year-old Broner issued an optimistic tweet Monday:

"

Today will be the DAY I change everything about my lifestyle at this point of my life #AboutBillions

— Adrien Broner (@AdrienBroner) July 18, 2016"

Broner last fought in April, defeating Ashley Theophane by ninth-round TKO in a fight that was supposed to be for the WBA junior welterweight title before Broner missed weight and was stripped of the belt. He does not have another opponent lined up at the moment.