Prime Rank has introduced that Brian Norman Jr. will probably 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 Area in Norfolk, Virginia.
An Upside-Down Card
The precious diamond, Norman Jr. (26-0, 20 KOs), will go to battle with the hard-hitting #7-ranked WBO contender Cuevas (27-1, 19 KOs) within the chief assist and can probably steal the present from the principle 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 principle occasion.
Undercard Gems
– Kelvin Davis vs. Yeis Solano– Abdullah Mason vs. Yohan Vasquez– Troy Isley vs. Tyler “Hercules” Howard– Austin DeAnda vs. DeAundre Pettus
Prime Rank will finally get it proper in future playing cards, placing the diamond skills like Norman and Mason on show and stowing Keyshawn beneath decks within the cargo maintain.
Promoter Bob Arum is pushing laborious to make Keyshawn a star, however his work has been minimize out as a result of he’s proven the form 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 combat, 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 making an attempt to avoid wasting his cover in no matter approach he may: to go full WWE.
Davis was making an attempt every part he may to maintain Madueno off of him, and the one factor he may consider was to grapple.
Time to Offload the Lemon?
After that combat, if I had been one of many prime brass for Arum’s firm, I might be determining how one can offload the lemon, Keyshawn, as a result of he’s not panning out.
These fights confirmed that Keyshawn shouldn’t be the man that some folks thought he could be popping out of the Olympics in 2020. Nonetheless, if followers had watched Keyshawn’s combat in opposition to Cuban Andy Cruz within the finals of the 2020 Olympics, you possibly 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.
