Devin Haney is back in training for his December fight. The former two-division world champion Haney looks to have put on some weight and looks ready to compete with the killers at 154 or 168.
Given Haney’s size and multi-million dollar prize requirements, he’ll need to enhance the pool to 154 or 168 to continue enjoying the payouts he’s become accustomed to over the past few years.
Expectations for Haney’s portfolio
Haney’s problem is that, like many fighters who get a taste of massive money in a mega-fight, they expect the same amount of money for all their fights. They don’t want to fight for less and end up doing nothing. It’s the spoiled fighter syndrome. Terence Crawford is an example of this.
If they just stayed busy, taking fights with smaller salaries, the massive money fights would eventually happen. Unfortunately, they don’t want to wait. So they sit around and ruin their careers.
This could be Haney’s fate. When greed takes overthat’s it for them, and it’s all downhill from there. If there was true love for the sport, Haney wouldn’t mind taking smaller paychecks while he waited for the influx of moms. He doesn’t want to wait.
Devin reportedly weighed 160 pounds in his last fight on April 20 against Ryan Garcia, which is the weight that fighters recover to at 154 pounds.
Promoter Eddie Hearn claims that if Devin Haney had not been invited to one of His Excellency Turki Alalshikha’s Riyadh season events, his salary demands would have been untenable.
If Haney Turki does not invite him to fight at one of his events, he will have two options: either wait for Ryan Garcia’s suspension to end in April to have a lucrative rematch with him, or move up to 154 or 168 pounds and fight one of the popular fighters.
Haney has the size to compete at junior middleweight or super middleweight, weight classes where he would have a vast pool of popular fighters and could make good money fighting them when he returns in December.
Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) recently vacated his WBC welterweight title when he opted not to defend it against mandatory challenger Sandor Martin.
The amount Haney would receive for a risky title defense would be significantly less than what he earned for his previous fight with Ryan Garcia. Thar influenced Haney’s decision not to defend against Sandor.
Daniel Dubois would love to meet Anthony Joshua, the man he so emphatically defeated on Saturday night, but will be keeping a close eye on the fight on December 21 when Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury face off in a rematch.
On a potential sequel with Joshua, Dubois told talkSPORT today: “Yeah, if it happens in the future, then yeah. If it happens next time, then yeah, I want to do it.
“I want to be even better next time. I know where I need to improve, so as a champion and a fighter, I want to prove people wrong every time, and that’s what we did.
“I can do a lot better,” Dubois continued. “It was a great performance, but next time I believe I will be even more clinical. More acute, everything.”
Dubois’ fifth-round victory was the Londoner’s third straight knockout win, having defeated Jarrell Miller in 10 rounds in December and Filip Hrgovic in eight in June. His dramatic renaissance came after a controversial defeat to Usyk last August, when Dubois was stopped in nine rounds after badly knocking down the Ukrainian with what was deemed a low blow in the fifth round.
Dubois is just as keen to fight the winner of the Usyk-Fury fight as he is Joshua. “I would like a rematch [with Joshua] but really, whoever pays me more money.”
Dubois defended his IBF heavyweight title against Joshua, a title vacated by Usyk, who still holds the WBC, WBA and WBO belts.
Edgar Berlanga believes he could have a rematch with Canelo Alvarez within a year and a half. He says he’ll beat Jaime Munguia, then get one of the super middleweight titles, and then face Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) for the undisputed title. Berlanga isn’t interested in fighting Caleb Plant because he thinks a fight between him and Munguia would bring in massive PPV numbers.
It might take more than just beating Munguia and Berlanga winning one of the belts for him to get a second fight with Canelo. He might have to beat the likes of Caleb Plant, Diego Pacheco and Osleys Inglesias, in addition to beating Munguia, to get a rematch with Canelo.
From the way Berlanga talks, he thinks he might take that back road to a second fight with Canelo, just like he did to get a title shot. He hasn’t beaten anyone good in his career, building a 22-0 record.
He was the textbook definition of a fighter with a record, as he didn’t have to go through a series of tough fights to earn a shot at the title. To get the bag from Canelo, Berlanga defeated two British fighters, Jason Quigley and Padraig McCory.
He probably would have never gotten that chance if Berlanga hadn’t had to beat good opponents like Plant, Inglesias, Munguia and Pacheco. Canelo didn’t hold it against Berlanga that he never fought good opponents because if he had told him to earn it by fighting some or all of those guys, he never would have done it.
Berlanga (22-1, 17 KOs) lost to Canelo via unanimous decision in 12 rounds on September 14 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was not that close, with judges scoring it 118-109, 117-110, and 118-109.
“I know we can have a rematch in a year and a half and I’m sure I can definitely beat him,” said Edgar Berlanga Rocks the universe about his belief that in a year and a half he will be able to have a rematch with Canelo Alvarez.
It’s highly unlikely Berlanga will ever get a rematch with Canelo, and he won’t beat him. He was heavily outmatched in their fight, and that won’t change.
“It was my first world title fight. It was a unification. It could have been a no-brainer,” Berlanga said. “Right now, Caleb [Plant] is on the radar, but now I want Munguia. This fight with the PPV numbers and the gate. It’s a massive attraction in Mexico. You saw me and Canelo. We just made history. Me and Munguia would do the same,” Berlanga said.
Berlanga may have to fight Plant if Canelo is not thrilled with his win over Munguai. If Canelo ignores Berlanga, he will have to fight good opposition until he agrees to fight him.
If Berlanga fights Munguia, he will have a very arduous fight because Jaime is a better fighter offensively than him. Munguia is not Berlanga’s size, but his talent is better than him, as is his experience.
“After I beat him, I want a rematch” [with Canelo Alvarez]. I think we had a great fight. Now he has a lot of respect for me,” Berlanga said. “He saw our results. It was a great fight from the first to the twelfth round. I really believe he’ll give me another chance.
“I think I’ll have to go out and get a world title. Like the WBO, if he vacates the WBO or the WBA. If I get a title, I believe we can do it. Next year is going to be a massive year. I’m a future PPV star. The king of PPV, the face of boxing,” Berlanga said.
I wonder if Berlanga really believes what he says about being the future PPV King and Face of Boxing. If he was that great, he wouldn’t have lost like he did to Canelo. He would have taken the fight with David Morrell too.
MAKE NO MISTAKE, Josh Padley knew he had been brought in as a scapegoat for Portsmouth’s unbeaten Mark Chamberlain, but the little-known 28-year-old, an electrician by trade, did not turn up for the opening match of Wembley Edition as cannon fodder.
Pulling off a surprise victory while Chamberlain’s so-called ‘biggest fan’, Turki Al-Alshikh, looked on with a handful of increasingly bewildered players, the pocket rocket was busy landing upwards blows from every angle.
Not only was he fighting for future titles and respect, but this career-best success sent Padley skyrocketing to the top Boxing News The UK lightweight ranking drops from ninth to third.
Now for Maxim Hughes and Sam Noakes, although the fight officially took place at 140 pounds, the next step for either could be a formal move up to super lightweight, so complicated is the matter of non-title fights in the context of long-term plans.
Regardless, Padley’s plea to interested promoters to “get in touch” will surely be met with a well-deserved, substantial payday for the show.
Unwanted by many before his season debut in Riyadh, Padley comfortably moved up in weight and used apt tactics over 10 rounds to distract, disorient and disorient Chamberlain for long periods of the fight. The Armthorpe man even joked earlier that he had boxed in smaller venues than the one hosting the pre-fight press conference.
After knocking out Chamberlain in round eight and taking a points deduction in round nine, Josh secured a unanimous decision victory and established himself as a credible contender at 140, 135 and even 130.
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