WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. suffered a left hamstring injury and is out of the November 8 card at the Scopes Center in Norfolk, Virginia. Norman Jr’s title defense against Derrieck Cuevas (27-1-1, 19 KOs) will be rescheduled for 2025.
Dan Rafael reports that Norman Jr. he is off the card and will face Cuevas next year. It would be 23-year-old Norman’s first defense of his WBO title, but it will have to wait.
The November 8th event will still go ahead, but one of the fights on the undercard will be moved up to a co-feature. In the main event, lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis will face Gustavo Lemos. ESPN+ will show the event live.
Norman Jr. who has been criticized on social media for choosing not to accept a $1.7 million offer to fight IBF champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis in a crowdfunding fight on November 9 in Philadelphia.
They feel that Norman wouldn’t have had his hand hurt if he had accepted the $1.7M offer, which is ridiculous. Norman Jr. he wanted $2.2 million to fight Ennis in his hometown of Philadelphia.
His father, Brian Sr., said they would take $1.7 million if the fight was in Las Vegas, but that was unacceptable. It was a logical way to go about the war, but Ennis’s superiors did not agree.
Norman Jr. he is 23 years old and is in no rush to accept lowball offers made for him to fight Ennis. You’d better say no because Boots’ promoter, Eddie Hearn, will probably increase that offer if Norman Jr. which has received more attention.
In Norman Jr’s last fight, he knocked out Giovani Santillan last May in San Diego. He won the WBO interim welterweight title, which was later promoted to the full title.
NEWS: @trboxing Norman’s team told me that Brian Norman is dealing with a left hand injury, which has forced him out of his first defense against Derrieck Cuevas scheduled for November 8 on ESPN+. Plans have been rescheduled for the game in early 2025. #boxing
— Dan Rafael (@DanRafael1) October 1, 2024
Last updated on 10/01/2024
