High Rank has introduced that Brian Norman Jr. might be defending his WBO welterweight title towards the succesful contender Derrieck Cuevas within the co-feature spot on the Keyshawn Davis vs. Gustavo Lemos card on ESPN+ on November eighth on the Scope Enviornment in Norfolk, Virginia.
An Upside-Down Card
The precious diamond, Norman Jr. (26-0, 20 KOs), will go to conflict with the hard-hitting #7-ranked WBO contender Cuevas (27-1, 19 KOs) within the chief help and can doubtless steal the present from the primary occasion conflict between Keyshawn and Lemos.
It’s an upside-down card, with gifted fighters like Brian Norman Jr. and Abdullah Mason on the undercard whereas the struggling, flawed Keyshawn is in the primary occasion.
Undercard Gems
– Kelvin Davis vs. Yeis Solano
– Abdullah Mason vs. Yohan Vasquez
– Troy Isley vs. Tyler “Hercules” Howard
– Austin DeAnda vs. DeAundre Pettus
High Rank will finally get it proper in future playing cards, placing the diamond abilities like Norman and Mason on show and stowing Keyshawn under decks within the cargo maintain.
Promoter Bob Arum is pushing arduous to make Keyshawn a star, however his work has been lower out as a result of he’s proven the type of expertise that Brian Norman Jr. has displayed. In current fights, Keyshawn has appeared like a lemon, struggling towards Miguel Madueno and Nahir Albright.
Within the Madueno combat, Keyshawn appeared like a WWE wrestler, utilizing wrestling strikes to keep away from getting knocked out by the highly effective Mexican fighter. He appeared like one determined dude attempting to avoid wasting his conceal in no matter method he might: to go full WWE.
Davis was attempting all the pieces he might to maintain Madueno off of him, and the one factor he might consider was to grapple.
Time to Offload the Lemon?
After that combat, if I have been one of many prime brass for Arum’s firm, I might be determining the way to offload the lemon, Keyshawn, as a result of he’s not panning out.
These fights confirmed that Keyshawn isn’t the man that some individuals thought he can be popping out of the Olympics in 2020. Nevertheless, if followers had watched Keyshawn’s combat towards Cuban Andy Cruz within the finals of the 2020 Olympics, you can see that he would have issues within the professional ranks as a result of he couldn’t deal with stress.
Cruz backed Keyshawn up and broke him with stress, beating him for the fourth time. The unheralded Nahir Albright took a web page out of Andy Cruz’s playbook through the use of stress to put on down Keyshawn within the later rounds of their match final October in Texas.
He had Keyshawn damage within the eighth spherical and dominated the remainder of the best way. The combat was later dominated a no-contest after Keyshawn examined optimistic for marijuana.
