Fam, as much as I live Valero, he is definitely not a High Profile fighter.... Even though he is generating some buzz, it is primarily coming from those in Boxing circles....
The way you determine if a fighter is high profile is the impact he has on the 'secular' or non-boxing world. Just because a fighter makes the cover of THE RING or Boxing Digest doesn't make him high profile. It's when Dudes are on Late Night talk shows, get on ESPN, get on the cover of Time or Sport Illustrated or have articles about them in USA Today or Rolling Stone, some shit like that that you can begin to recognize them as High Profile. When the average Joe is discussing Dude at a Sports Bar when Soccer is playing on the TV, or they are the topic of discussion at the water cooler at work....etc.
Also, Valero will not generate the money that a High Profile fighter would outside of a small segment of the world, i.e. Mexico or the home town of the Dude he's fighting and even then, he won't generate the millions a high profile fighter would.
I think we are confusing High Profile with Skill and Potential. High Profile has nothing to do with how good a fighter is or how many Dude's he's knocked out. To a degree, as good as he is, Shane still needs another High Profile fighter to help carry a major event...that's why he is still fighting on regular HBO at this stage in his career (i.e. Margarito/Cotto..two high profile fighters, fought on PPV, Mosley/Margarito..fought on regular HBO...and this was AFTER Margarito dominated Cotto!!!!), why because Shane wasn't high profile enough to carry a PPV event! Chad Dawson, universally recognized as the top guy at Light Heavyweight, while an tremendously talented fighter, still isn't high profile enough to headline a major PPV, or even headline a successful card OUTSIDE of his home town region of Connecticut. Valero falls to a lesser extent into the category of Shane and Chad, very good, but not high profile.