Not every opponent will be as committed to entertain the crowd as is normally the case with Blair ‘The Flair’ Cobbs.

That dynamic could come into play in his crossroads bout with Brad Solomon (29-3, 9KOs), with the unbeaten welterweight prospect well prepared to carry the action if it comes to that.

“Brad Solomon is the polar opposite of me,” Cobbs acknowledged to krikya360.com of the matchup. “He will try to make the fight slow, boring and methodical. I’m going to speed it up and try to make the show exciting.

“One thing I will say about him is that he will bring his best and his A-game. I expect the best out of Brad Solomon.”

Their bout takes place this Saturday as the first fight of a DAZN-aired quadruple-header beginning 3:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. local time from Don Haskins Center on the campus of The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

The fight is the first for Las Vegas’ Cobbs (14-0-1, 9KOs) since last February, where he found himself in a struggling stinker of a fight with Ghana’s Samuel Kotey. Cobbs won by split decision on a night where the southpaw boxed against an opponent who merely fought in spurts and all but refused to engage.

It came in stark contrast to Cobbs’ run dating back his undercard appearances on Golden Boy Promotions’ LA Fight Club series before he and the company took their business to DAZN.

Cobbs had stopped four of his previous five opponents heading into the Kotey bout, including his bumping off two previously unbeaten fighters. In his fight prior to the win over Kotey, Cobbs survived a 1st round knockdown to drop and eventually stop Carlos Ortiz Cervantez after six rounds on the Nov. 2019 undercard of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’ tenth round knockout of Sergey Kovalev to win the WBO light heavyweight title.

The 31-year-old southpaw learned long ago that not every opponent will stand right in front of him waiting to eat his punches. The variety in styles, he believes, will only make him better in the long run.

“Why not! I like to face adversity,” insists Cobbs. “I like the challenge. A lot of fighters don’t. They want to face one type of fighter. They don’t want to fight anyone that has a real chance until it’s a world champion. Then what happens, eventually they lose because they’re not ready for it. It’s a bad setup, a recipe for failure.

“I prefer to be ready for anyone and anything.  This could be a really rough fight. It could be tough. I expect him to bring his A-game. I’ve already faced tough opposition already. I’ve been challenged. I’ve been up against the odds multiple times already. This fight is no different.”

The bout serves in supporting capacity to a middleweight showdown between former WBO junior middleweight titlist Jaime Munguia (36-0, 29KOs) of Tijuana and Poland’s Kamil Szeremeta (21-1, 5KOs), a former middleweight title challenger.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for krikya360.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox