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BRIAN NORMAN JR will enter a career-toughest assignment – on paper, that is – today (June 19), looking to enhance his somewhat questionable credentials as a WBO welterweight champion.
Despite boasting a well-crafted skillset and, perhaps more importantly, a natural eye for counterpunching, the 24-year-old is yet to build a resume that reflects his lofty position.
But now, the American must prove – beyond some reasonable doubt, at least – that he is, in fact, a world-level operator at 147lbs.
He has, naturally, already proclaimed that much to be the case, yet two stoppage victories over Giovani Santillan and Derrieck Cuevas have hardly made for a compelling argument.
The first of these saw Norman (27-0, 21 KOs), claim the interim strap with a 10th-round finish – devastating enough to…
