Mason “Rock Hard Mighty” Menard is focused and determined like no other time during his career.

 

 

 

The lightweight contender moved six hours from his home and two children in Louisiana to train with a new team in Dallas alongside the likes of WBC World Super Welterweight Champion Jermell Charlo and IBF Welterweight Champion Errol Spence Jr.

 

 

 

梅纳尔 (33-2, 24 科斯) will face undefeated Devin “The Dream” Haney (18-0, 12 科斯) of Las Vegas for the USBA Lightweight Championship on Friday, 五月 11, in the 10-round main event of the popular prospect series 的ShoBox: 新一代 quadrupleheader (10 P.M. ET / PT) on SHOWTIME from 2300 竞技场在费城.

 

 

 

在10轮的共同特征, super bantamweight prospects Josh “Don’t Blink” Greer (16-1-1, 8 科斯) and Glenn Dezurn (9-1-1, 6 科斯) 见面会. In an eight-round featured attraction, light heavyweight Alvin Varmall Jr. (15-0-1, 12 科斯) takes on Charles Foster (15-0, 8 科斯); and in the opening televised fight, super bantamweight Arnold Khegai (11-0-1, 8 科斯) will face Adam Lopez (16-2-2, 8 科斯) 在八轮较量.

 

门票活动, which is promoted by Greg Cohen Promotions, 强力促销 & 德文 - 哈尼促销, 售价为 $125 对于VIP, $70 用于马戏团和 $50 for general admission and are available at the 2300 Arena Box office or online at www.HardHittingPromotions.com.

 

 

 

“Everything has changed,”梅纳德说. “The way I eat in my off-time, 我的团队, my management, 我的教练, the way I train. Everything.”

 

 

 

The 29-year-old Menard says his home state of Louisiana simply couldn’t offer the level of training he is now getting, working with new trainers Nathan Pipitone, Maurice James and Aaron Navarro, while sparring with world champions.

 

 

 

“I’m in Dallas to better my career,” Menard continued. “Louisiana just doesn’t have what I need to take it to the next level and compete. I’m working hard here and it’s what I need. I’m pushing the tempo and sharpening my skills.”

 

 

 

Fighting live on 的ShoBox 在 2016, Menard scored a brutal Knockout of the Year candidate over previously undefeated Eudy Bernardo and got another 的ShoBox win later that year with an impressive KO over Bahodir Mamadjonov. He then suffered his only loss since 2008, in a short-notice showdown with WBO Lightweight Champion Raymundo Beltran.

 

 

 

He returned from the setback in March 2017 with a decision win, but suffered a serious injury.

 

 

 

“I had a detached front rotator cuff tendon and partial torn biceps tendon. It gave out on me in my last fight in the first round. I’ve had surgery on it, and rehabbed it, and now I’m ready to return to the world stage. I’m in with a good, slick boxer, but my trainers have a game plan and we have been working on a few things that he does, just to be prepared for what’s to come against him. 我会准备好的。”

 

 

 

Menard says the hardest part of preparing to face one of boxing’s most talked-about prospects on national television is the loneliness of missing his two beloved daughters, Demi (8 岁) and newborn Amelia.

 

 

 

“I get homesick. I miss my babies back home, but it’ll all be worth it,“他说，. “It’s my job and I’m going to do it.”