Devin Haney posted a cryptic message on social media tonight, saying he expects to be ducked in 2025.
He doesn’t say who would duck him, however he could also be speaking about Ryan Garcia as a result of his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, mentioned a match with Devin wouldn’t occur in his first battle after his 12 months suspension expires in April.
Devin and his dad, Invoice Haney, need the rematch with Kingry to avenge their loss from final April. Additionally, it’s one of many best-paying fights for Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in 2025. Nonetheless, if he loses the rematch with Garcia, his profession is finished. He’d be regretting taking that battle for the remainder of his life.
Dev should defeat Garcia to point out the followers that his 12-round majority determination loss to Garcia on April twentieth on the Barclays Heart in Brooklyn was simply an off evening. Haney was floored thrice in that battle and an extra thrice that the referee didn’t depend.
Andrade Critiques Haney
“At first, I assumed Devin Haney for a very long time as a result of I assumed he was going to develop right into a Sugar Ray Leonard type man, however it simply hasn’t been not too long ago going that method,” mentioned Demetrius Andrade to MillCity Boxing about him initially believing that Devin Haney could be the man to defeat Gervonta Davis.
“I don’t know if he [Haney] received too complacent or not. He’s nonetheless younger as a result of they make some good cash, after which they cease working. I’m not saying he doesn’t work onerous. I assumed he could be the man to beat Tank sooner or later. Beat plenty of them guys, truthfully.
“I believe he has the abilities to beat everyone, however that Ryan Garcia factor. No matter that little substance that he took, he didn’t present no expertise of dominance versus Ryan, and Ryan regarded like s*** at moments. He was drained,” mentioned Andrade.
If Andrade significantly thought Haney would become turning into the subsequent Sugar Ray Leonard, it means he wasn’t round when he was combating. Haney fights nothing like Leonard did. Even an older model of Sugar Ray in 1997 was ranges above Devin talent-wise.
“There have been many rounds in that battle the place Devin ought to have pressed and pushed, and he didn’t,” mentioned Andrade. “He simply let it keep it up, and he was throwing them Caleb Plant jabs. It wasn’t doing nothing, and Ryan simply boop-boop. That was a tough one,” mentioned Andrade about Haney’s loss to Garcia.
Haney was making an attempt to neutralize Ryan’s left hook by clinching excessively, however he stored getting nailed whereas trying to seize him. He’d gotten away with combating that method in his two fights in opposition to George Kambosos Jr. and his conflict in opposition to Vasily Lomachenkp. That tactic didn’t work in opposition to Garcia.
2025 sucka duckin…
— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) January 1, 2025
