Lee Selby moving up two weight classes after losing his IBF Featherweight World title to Josh Warrington nine months ago. Selby was struggling to make weight @ 126 in the past so moving up is a good decision but why he is moving up two classes AND facing a heavy handed guy like Omar Douglas is beyond me. They must have big faith in his chin. Douglas is a good athlete, slick and can box different styles. He lost two razor close decisions to Edner Cherry and Javier Fortuna despite dropping Fortuna with a huge left hook to the chin. Douglas is a tough opponent as a first fight two weight classes above. Nevertheless Selby is the clear favorite at the betting market as you can get Omar Douglas +560 right now. Who wins this? On the one hand i think Selby can pull off a close decision. On the other side there are some serious questionmarks if Selby can take the power @ 135 from a huge puncher like Douglas. We'll find out on Saturday.
I think Selby gets this, I expect him to be very careful and get the decision. Btw the fight doesn't even have scheduled rounds yet...
At 130 he had good power. He knocked down Fortuna with a big left hook and also Braulio Santos twice who went the distance with Rojas without touching the canvas who's considered as a "big puncher" i guess. At 135 he might have even more power so yeah i think we can use the term "huge puncher".
