The welterweight division is ready for a dominant world champion to emerge, and Brian Norman needs to be the person to fill that void.
Unbeaten champions Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Eimantas Stanionis will battle for the IBF and WBA titles subsequent month, Mario Barrios holds the WBC belt and Norman will put the WBO championship on the road when he fights Derrieck Cuevas in Las Vegas.
Norman, who’s undefeated himself in 26 professional fights, bins Cuevas on the undercard of the Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan rematch, reside on Sky Sports activities Motion from midnight on Sunday morning.
“You will be entertained. Don’t go to the bathroom, the refrigerator, don’t check your mailbox, you better tune into the TV, because you will see something amazing,” Norman informed Sky Sports activities.
“I believe he is the perfect opponent. He’s coming to bring it as well. So our styles will clash wonderfully together. It’s going to be a head to head fight and somebody’s going to sleep. And I’m not that tired myself.”
Norman is coming off a powerful knockout victory over Giovani Santillan. He’s satisfied that he ought to be thought of one of the best within the division.
With that win over Santillan, he mentioned: “I’ve obtained one of the best resume within the welterweight division proper now. No person else has that calibre of opponent as their win.
“I believe in the work that I put in, I believe in the time I put in and I just feel like I’m going to run through everybody.”
Traditionally, the welterweight division has produced a few of the most interesting fighters in the entire sport. In recent times welterweight champions Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Terence Crawford have been considered one of the best boxers on the planet pound-for-pound.
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Mayweather and Pacquiao are in fact lengthy retired and final yr the good Terence Crawford moved as much as super-welter.
Norman needs to be the following nice welterweight champion.
“We take it day by day but I know for a fact myself I will be a legend in the game. I will be one of those Hall of Famers,” he mentioned. “As the years go on, you will see that resume stack up.
“The outdated era simply left, the final ones being Terence Crawford and Errol Spence. So proper now it is simply new and never as large simply but. As you have seen we have stars coming in, ‘Boots’ – everybody saying he is the most important one. I am going to allow them to have that. [Like] Marvin Hagler I’ve obtained to return in and alter the entire recreation.
“I feel like 147lbs is starting to warm up to those standards that everyone is looking for.”
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After an epic first battle that was watched by record-breaking audiences a rematch between Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan was inevitable
Impressed by father’s ring return
His father, Brian Norman Sr, is his coach. Unusually final month Norman Sr had his first skilled boxing bout in 14 years.
It is an instance that has impressed the WBO world titlist.
“I don’t want to see him get hurt so there was a lot of things going into it, but as we started training I’ve seen where I get my attitude from, I’ve seen where I get my work ethic from,” he mentioned. “So I had all the confidence in the world going into that fight.
“I can take over the world if he can come again after 14 years and battle an lively fighter and he beat him. So why cannot I do the identical with these guys?”
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