By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten junior middleweight (15-0, 9 KO’s) steps it up against Commonwealth light middleweight champion Obodai Sai (15-0, 10 KO’s) in a battle of unbeatens at the Hilton Hotel, Mayfair, London. Cox, 25, has been slow in getting to this stage of his career where he’s finally fighting for a minor title.

Unfortunately, Cox has picked the wrong guy to be going for a title against because the 27-year-old Sai can really punch and Cox has a nasty habit of trying to trade with stronger fighters. That bad habit is probably going to lead to Cox getting knocked cold in this fight. It’s a pity, but that’s how it goes.

Cox’s stock has plummeted for the most part since he struggled against a limited Mark Lloyd a couple of years ago in what turned out to be life and death fight for Cox. In the end Cox got an 8th round stoppage, but he looked worse than horrible in that fight. Lloyd showed that Cox can be roughed up and beaten on the inside where he’s pretty much helpless.

Instead of realizing that he doesn’t have the style to be trying to trade on the inside with better fighters in that area, Cox has continued to be lured into wars with other limited opposition in his fights since then and it’s caused him to take some god awful punishment.

Now Cox is stepping it up a level on Friday night against a guy that can really punch in Sai, and I can see nothing good coming of this fight for Cox. If he’s smart, he’ll stay on the outside and try to box, but I knowing him, I see Cox going in and fighting with anger and getting pulverized by the harder hitting Sai. Hopefully Cox learns something in getting annihilated. It’s going to be brutal.