High Rank has introduced that Brian Norman Jr. might be defending his WBO welterweight title in opposition to 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 dear 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 seemingly steal the present from the primary occasion conflict between Keyshawn and Lemos.
It’s an upside-down card, with proficient 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 skills like Norman and Mason on show and stowing Keyshawn under decks within the cargo maintain.
Promoter Bob Arum is pushing exhausting to make Keyshawn a star, however his work has been minimize out as a result of he’s proven the sort of expertise that Brian Norman Jr. has displayed. In current fights, Keyshawn has regarded like a lemon, struggling in opposition to Miguel Madueno and Nahir Albright.
Within the Madueno battle, Keyshawn regarded like a WWE wrestler, utilizing wrestling strikes to keep away from getting knocked out by the highly effective Mexican fighter. He regarded like one determined dude attempting to save lots of his disguise in no matter manner he might: to go full WWE.
Davis was attempting every part 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 battle, if I have been one of many prime brass for Arum’s firm, I’d be determining how you can offload the lemon, Keyshawn, as a result of he’s not panning out.
These fights confirmed that Keyshawn is just not the man that some folks thought he can be popping out of the Olympics in 2020. Nonetheless, if followers had watched Keyshawn’s battle in opposition to Cuban Andy Cruz within the finals of the 2020 Olympics, you might 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 by utilizing stress to put on down Keyshawn within the later rounds of their match final October in Texas.
He had Keyshawn harm within the eighth spherical and dominated the remainder of the best way. The battle was later dominated a no-contest after Keyshawn examined constructive for marijuana.
