{"id":395068,"date":"2026-01-06T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395068\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:56:12","slug":"brian-norman-sr-doesnt-believe-son-was-outclassed-by-devin-haney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395068\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Norman Sr. Doesn’t Believe Son Was Outclassed By Devin Haney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confidence, bravado, and hubris were detected in the voice of Devin Haney<\/a> ahead of his world title clash against Brian Norman Jr<\/a>.
Brian Norman Sr., however, was just as loud in his approach. He believed in his son and was completely convinced he would retain against Haney. However it was Haney who came out on top in their ‘Ring IV: Night of the Champions’ co-main event<\/a> on November 22, winning the WBO welterweight title. <\/p>\n

With his newly-won belt over his shoulder, Haney has said repeatedly that he\u2019s level’s above Norman Jr. He also believes that he outclassed the former champion. <\/p>\n

Norman Sr. can\u2019t argue with the results. Haney (33-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) won fair and square, and it\u2019s now time to rebuild. However, what annoys him is the narrative that his son, who was dropped in the second round, was handed a lopsided beat down.<\/p>\n

\u201cY\u2019all said he was gonna get outclassed,\u201d Norman Sr. told MillCity Boxing. \u201cBut you got one guy that landed 59 punches and another guy that landed 70 punches. That\u2019s an 11-punch difference over 12 rounds of a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of the second round and a few sporadic moments, it wasn\u2019t the most fan-friendly fight. Haney landed just 70 of 271 punches, while Norman Jr. threw 399 but only landed on 15 percent of those shots, 59. <\/p>\n

Now, Team Norman will head to the drawing board. Getting back to the mountaintop will take time, but they\u2019ve vowed to do just that and earn a rematch with Haney down the line. <\/p>\n

But while they work on the holes Haney exploited, Norman Sr. refuses to let anyone believe his son was obliterated in that ring on that night in Riyadh. <\/p>\n

\u201c11 punches ain\u2019t outclassing by nobody,\u201d Norman Sr. continued. \u201cYou can feel however you want to feel because of your emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confidence, bravado, and hubris were detected in the voice of Devin Haney ahead of his world title clash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-395068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395068","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=395068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}