Brian Norman Sr. realistically looks at his son\u2019s opponents when breaking down the WBO welterweight champion\u2019s upcoming fights.<\/p>\n
After analyzing Devin Haney<\/a>, Brian Norman Jr.\u2019s father and trainer determined the former undisputed lightweight champion won\u2019t have the firepower to fend off his son in their 12-round, 147-pound title fight November 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. \u201cSo, I\u2019m looking at it like, \u2018OK, yeah, I can see where I can come up with a plan. You can see openings here and there, we can do this and that.\u2019 Yeah, but one punch, and you gotta deal with all the heat coming back at you.\u201d<\/p>\n Haney told The Ring he\u2019ll be a harder puncher as a full-fledged welterweight, not needing to deplete himself to make lower weights anymore. The Oakland native weighed in at a career-high 143 pounds for his most recent fight, a 12-round unanimous points victory over Jose Ramirez<\/a> (29-3, 18 KOs) on The Ring\u2019s outdoor show May 2 at Times Square in New York. The 26-year-old Haney hasn\u2019t produced a knockout since he stopped Russia\u2019s Zaur Abdullaev in the fourth round of their WBC interim lightweight title fight in September 2019.<\/p>\n Norman\u2019s power is undeniable.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old Norman, of Conyers, Georgia, has won each of his three welterweight championship bouts by knockout or technical knockout. Norman dropped Japan\u2019s Jin Sasaki (19-2-1, 17 KOs) twice in the first round and knocked him unconscious with a left hook<\/a> in the fifth round of their June 19 bout at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo. Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Norman Sr. realistically looks at his son\u2019s opponents when breaking down the WBO welterweight champion\u2019s upcoming fights.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":{"0":"post-290592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-ca","21":"tag-canada","22":"tag-disqualification","23":"tag-draw","24":"tag-fight","25":"tag-fighter","26":"tag-fighter-news","27":"tag-knockout","28":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","29":"tag-ring","30":"tag-ring-magazine","31":"tag-split-decision","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-technical-knockout","34":"tag-the-ring","35":"tag-top-fighters","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Haney (32-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) will make his debut at the welterweight limit when challenging Norman<\/a> (28-0, 22 KOs, 1 NC) in the co-feature of \u201cThe Ring IV: Night of the Champions\u201d card at ANB Arena.
\u201cI look at it from both sides,\u201d Norman Sr. told The Ring<\/a>. \u201cI watch Brian Norman fights. It\u2019s my job to look at how I would beat Brian Norman. I look at the things he do and don\u2019t do. Imma be real with you \u2013 if you a power puncher, you got a much better chance. But being a non-power puncher, Haney don\u2019t do enough to beat Brian Norman Jr. There\u2019s nothing that he does.<\/p>\n
The Oakland native has gone the 12-round distance in nine straight fights, dating back to November 2019. He also survived three knockdowns during a 12-round, majority-decision defeat to Ryan Garcia<\/a> in April 2024, though the result was changed to a no-contest because Garcia tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance.<\/p>\n
Norman (-135) is a slight favorite over Haney (+110), according to DraftKings. They\u2019ll box before Phoenix native David Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) defends his WBC light heavyweight title against England\u2019s Anthony Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs) in the 12-round main event of a four-fight DAZN Pay-Per-View show<\/a> in the United States ($59.99) and the UK (\u00a324.99). <\/p>\n