Tim Bradley predicts that the top fighters at lightweight will avoid Abdullah Mason if he defeats San Noakes to win the vacant WBO lightweight title this month on November 22 in Riyadh.<\/p>\n
The podcaster and Boxing Hall of Famer Bradley states that the 21-year-old Mason (19-0, 17 KOs) will be in the \u201cwho needs him\u201d club if he captures the WBO title on Turki Alalshikh\u2019s Ring IV event on DAZN<\/a> PPV at the ANB Arena in Riyadh.<\/p>\n Abdullah Mason\u2019s Path to the WBO Title<\/p>\n \u201cMason wins this title [vacant WBO lightweight belt], he\u2019s going to be a dangerous fighter at 135 pounds. Trust me, not a lot of guys are going to call him out. They\u2019re going to look the other way,\u201d said podhost \/ commentator Tim Bradley on his YouTube channel<\/a>, talking about how Abdullah Mason will be avoided by fighters at 135 if he defeats Sam Noakes to capture the vacant WBO lightweight title on November 22nd.<\/p>\n If Mason is victorious on November 22nd, some fighters will be eager to face him. These fearless lightweight contenders likely would jump at the chance to face Abdullah:<\/p>\n Andy Cruz The question is, would Mason\u2019s promoters at Top Rank be open to matching him against any of those fighters? He would have a good chance of beating Herrera and Zepeda. However, those would still be risky fights for Mason because the two have elements to their game that would pose problems for him in terms of power [Jadier] and high-volume punch output [Zepeda].<\/p>\n It would be a bad idea for Top Rank to match Abdullah Mason against the power-puncher Schofield or the highly technical Cuban Andy Cruz. Those are both fights that Mason could lose. He lacks the technical skills to defeat Cruz, and the power of Schofield would be a serious threat.<\/p>\n Why Top Fighters Fear Mason\u2019s Power<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re going to say, \u2018He doesn\u2019t bring enough to the table yet.\u2019 That\u2019s what they\u2019re going to say. When a fighter doesn\u2019t want to face another fighter, that\u2019s what he says. \u2018He don\u2019t bring enough to the table. Oh, he\u2019s just green. Yeah, he needs to keep building his notoriety.\u2019 That\u2019s what we say,\u201d said Bradley about his belief that Abdullah Mason will be avoided like the plague if he captures the WBO title.<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to predict what Bradley says about Mason happening. When you look at the top fighters, like Shakur Stevenson and Gervonta Davis, they\u2019re likely not going to want to mix it up with a dangerous young puncher like Mason. He hits too hard, and he\u2019s dangerous with either hand. Moreover, the money that would be on the line against Abdullah wouldn\u2019t be massive enough for the top fighters at 135 to take the risk.<\/p>\n Since 2014, Olly Campbell has brought readers clear ringside perspective and a steady voice on boxing\u2019s biggest nights.<\/p>\n Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb News<\/a> \u00bb Tim Bradley Predicts Top Lightweights Will Avoid Abdullah Mason if He Wins WBO Title on November 22 in Riyadh<\/p>\n Last Updated on 11\/04\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley predicts that the top fighters at lightweight will avoid Abdullah Mason if he defeats San Noakes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFloyd Schofield
\nJadier Herrera
\nWilliam Zepeda<\/p>\n