The team now aims to keep Masson busy fighting, in the hope it would further lift him in the rankings.<\/p>\n
In addition to the bout this month, Masson is hoping to fight in October and November.<\/p>\n
Masson said he was looking forward to the Grewal fight, saying he appreciated the opportunity to gain more experience against southpaw fighters.<\/p>\n
Two world champions in the cruiser-weight division, IBF World Champion Jai Opetaia and unified WBA and WBO world champion Gilberto Ramirez, are southpaws.<\/p>\n
Also, David Nyika, whom Masson hopes to fight eventually, likes to switch between an orthodox and southpaw stance.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Grewal has a decent record of 7 – 2 – 0, however, all of his wins were against either debut boxers or boxers with fewer than three professional fights to their name.<\/p>\n
Grewal has some experience fighting in Australia, where he took on two-time world title challenger Mark Flanagan and New Zealand-born Ricky Esilva, losing to both of them.<\/p>\n
Floyd Masson vs Dharmender Grewal will take place on the Liam Paro vs David Papot world title eliminator undercard at Pat Rafter Arena, Brisbane, Australia on September 18.<\/p>\n
The fight is unlikely to be televised in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Watt is a retired boxing judge and New Zealand boxing writer with a decade of experience. Watt has also been BoxRec\u2019s New Zealand record-keeper since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team now aims to keep Masson busy fighting, in the hope it would further lift him in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[32465,1914,64,63,80211,5975,16485,802,651,80212,10680,2976,27854,580,80213,10165,27855,85,19004,16484,1050],"class_list":["post-112297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-month","tag-against","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-booked","tag-bout","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-brisbane","tag-dharmender","tag-face","tag-fighter","tag-floyd","tag-for","tag-grewal","tag-indian","tag-masson","tag-sports","tag-this","tag-waikato","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}