Devin Haney Vs. Brian Norman Jr.: Haney Experience and Advanced Level Opposition Key to November Showdown victory

Commentator Chris Mannix believes Devin Haney has a great chance of defeating WBO Welterweight Champion Brian Norman Jr. in November. He says that the opposition that Norman Jr. (28-0, 22 KOS) is not faced during his career at the level of what he will deal with against former Haney two-part world champion (32-0, 15 kos).

Norman Jr.

Mannix states that Haney, 26, has more experience, 10 pounds-for-pound, and knows how to fight Punchers as Norman Jr. The Haney Odsmakers have as a favorite, which is surprising given that it is Chinny and faces the largest puncher in the welter pressure section.

“It’s unproven at this point. You can’t say that winning over (Giovani) Santillan, (Derrieck) Cuevas, and Jin Sasaki is equivalent to Devin Haney,” Chris Mannix told Dazn’s boxing About WBO Norman Jr.’s welterweight champion without facing the level of fighters that can compare with what it is about to Devin Haney.

The Norman JR men have recently fought that he is not as talented as Haney, but they all have a better punching power. Even Sasaki has more pop in his shots than Devin, and his jaw is at another level as well. The hard shots that Sasaki took against Norman on June 19th would have easily cast out Haney.

“I think the fighting with Ramirez is under 147. This will be at full 147 lbs. I think it will be better.”

Haney was looking shells in his caught weight fight against the slow, past his best Jose Ramirez last May. He was absolutely unwilling to engage against him, and half of the puncher is not 24 -year -old Brian Norman Jr. If Devin was unwilling to stand and fight Ramirez, he will go to be even more so once he feels the power of Norman Jr.

Punch Resistance Doubts

“When you put more weight on your body, you’re better for that. It’s probably going to get a better jaw,” Mannix said about Haney. “If Brian Norman connects as he did against Jin Sasaki, it’s over. It’s going to be a handful of Brian Norman.”

Putting more weight on it does not guarantee that a fighter will get better punch resistance. That’s the story of old women. Many fighters who have been cast out say their punch resistance will be better when they move up. When they move up, they are still cast out. It gets worse for them because they are hit harder when they move up in weight. We are likely to see that with Haney, facing the largest puncher in his career, Norman Jr.

Is Haney P4P Top 10?

“We’re going to find out in this fight if he’s the real deal. He has looked very good against opponents B and C. Let’s see how he looks against a (Haney) man with a real top 10-pound talent.”

Let’s get this straight away. Haney is not a top 10-for-pound fighter. Mannix goes exceptionally with his praise from Devin by distributing him as a top 10-for-pound fighter. Devin’s last two fights showed that he was a Level B fighter, and maybe not even that now he finally moved up to 147.

Norman Jr. is going to show whether Haney is a top-tier fighter in welter weight or just another of the many pre-weight bullies brought down to the ground when they move up in weight, where they no longer have a size advantage.

Haney should have been fighting 147 years ago but has been able to drain down to 135 and 140 to use his extra size to dominate the opposition. He fought only two good fighters in those years, Vasily Lomachenko and Ryan Garcia, and it is arguably lost to both.