Coach Stephen Edwards believes that light-weight prospect Abdullah Mason needs to be okay transferring ahead after being dropped twice by journeyman Yohan Vasquez within the first spherical of their battle on November eighth on the Scope Enviornment in Norfolk, Virginia.
Edwards desires to see how Mason, 20, seems in his subsequent battle to find out whether or not the 2 knockdowns will make him gunshy. Some fighters develop into afraid after being damage, and this concern stays with them as a result of they lose religion of their capability to take a punch.
As Edwards factors out, Mason (16-0, 14 KOs) went for the knockout too early within the battle, throwing a giant left uppercut and being caught by Vasquez’s cash punch, the left hook, and dropped in spherical one.
Mason received up and dropped Vasquez (26-6, 21 KOs) with a left moments later. Vasquez injured his leg within the fall however, surprisingly, was in a position to come again and knock Abdullah a second time shortly earlier than the top of the spherical.
“He went for the knockout a little bit bit early earlier than the man was softened up, and he bumped into some massive pictures, and he received dropped,” stated Stephen Edwards to MillCity Boxing, speaking about Abdullah Mason getting dropped twice by the massive puncher Yohas Vasquez in spherical one.
“He had the appropriate temperament after being dropped. He stepped proper again to the dude, and in the midst of the man knocking him down twice, he was hurting the man and wound up getting him out of there,” Edwards stated about Mason dropping Vasquez in spherical one in between being knocked down twice in that spherical after which ending him within the second.
Mason seemed like he was making an attempt for a blazing-fast first-round knockout proper off the bat, and that’s the place he received into bother. Vasquez was too highly effective of a fighter to be reckoned towards. His energy is healthier than the principle occasion man, Keyshawn Davis.
“One factor I search for when a fighter will get knocked down is does he develop into gunshy,” stated Stephen. “Abdullah Mason, I nonetheless assume he’s good. We simply received to see if that’s one thing that retains taking place again and again or if it was simply that day the place he was a little bit bit impatient and he bumped into some pictures.”
We’ll quickly see how Mason comes again from this battle as a result of High Rank is prone to proceed to match him towards more and more higher opposition as a result of he desires to battle for a world title in 2025. It could be good to see Mason battle Keyshawn or Raymond Muratalla in order that a kind of fighters may very well be eradicated.
“There’s no want for an alarm. He didn’t flip round and switch right into a kur [Shakur Stevenson?]. Have you learnt what I imply? He stepped proper again to the dude and took him out. There are some guys that get hit, they usually begin humorous performing. They begin operating and holding for the remainder of the battle,” stated Edwards,
Mason got here proper again after being dropped by Vasquez in spherical one and, moments later, knocked him down with a left hook to the top. Seconds earlier than, Vasquez had staggered Mason with a examine left hook, however that didn’t maintain him again. Mason went after him and dropped him with that left.
The place Mason made a mistake in going for the kill, and he received caught with one other quick left hook that put him down for a second time. It was the identical scenario we noticed with William Zepeda getting knocked down by a left hand he didn’t see coming by Tevin Farmer final Saturday evening.
He’d been dominated and received caught. However then he received up and beat the dwelling daylights out of Farmer for the rest of the battle. Mason was in the identical precise scenario, however he didn’t take as a lot criticism due to his youth and with the ability to rating a knockout within the second.
“You possibly can simply inform that they don’t have the power to eat punishment, they usually don’t have the guts to eat punishment as a result of they battle in survival mode. Mason didn’t do this. I believe he’s okay. Let’s see how issues are transferring ahead,” stated Edwards about Abdullah and the way he returns in his subsequent battle.
Mason saved preventing again after being initially dropped in spherical one by Vasquez, and he rapidly dropped him. It was when Mason went for the end; he dropped a second-time moments earlier than the top of the spherical. Nonetheless, Mason returned to drop Vasquez in spherical two with a left to the physique to get the knockout.
Though Edwards doesn’t point out any particular fighters who go into survival mode, it’s possible that the one man he’s fascinated with is Devin Haney, who was holding nonstop after being damage by Ryan Garcia of their battle final April. It was laborious to observe Haney holding nonstop after getting clipped by Ryan in spherical seven.