Via Adam Baskin: Devin Haney revealed his next bout against Vasyl Lomachenko will be on ESPN’s pay-per-view channel in May, with all four lightweight belts on the ropes.
Some boxing fans will have a problem with paying to watch Haney on PPV because they don’t consider him a pay-per-view due to his sometimes dull fighting style, including includes lots of hooks and stabs and not much in the way of power.
For fans who want to see Lomachenko, 34, in one of the biggest matches of his career, with him having lost a few races due to age, they will have to pay to get the special. that right.
This is the kind of match between David and Goliath due to the large numbers welding weight by Haney against the tiny feather size Lomachenko. At least Haney has been on the move at 140, and it’s entirely possible he won’t put on any weight for the Loma matchup, given how big he’s looked since his last match in October.
By the time Haney is done rehydrating for the bout, he’ll look like a junior middleweight, and Lomachenko will be up against that, even bigger than he was when he fought Teofimo Lopez. big in October 2020.
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Mike Coppinger reports that Haney (29-0, 15 KOs) has agreed to face Lomachenko (17-2, 11 KOs) in May. They have an agreement in place, but no contract has been signed yet.
Haney, 24, wants the match against Lomachenko to take place in March before the start of Ramadan, but Loma needs more time to prepare for the match after the final match against him. Jamaine Ortiz on October 29.
That match showed that former triple world champion Lomachenko needed to build strength, conditioning and size.
“The top fight at lightweight has nothing to do with Shakur Stevenson or Tank Davis because that matters is a match we’re probably going to win first, right? The undisputed lightweight champion of the world, Devin Haney. There is only one lightweight champion. Forget the belts, and he has them anyway, against former king Vasyl Lomachenko,” Max Kellerman said above Max on boxing.
“Now everything seems to be going in the right direction. They’re looking at May. Devin Haney wants to go in March. He is a Muslim, and the month of Ramadan lasts from mid-March to mid-April, but he agreed to do that fight in May,” said Mike Coppinger.
“I was told there was an agreed framework for the Haney vs. Lomachenko. So no contracts have been signed yet, but it all looks good.”
“Give this to Haney. He waited for his shot and campaigned for it, he hit the road to take it, and he had a rematch overseas and did it,” Kellerman said of Haney’s two-fight. with former two-time unified lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr in Australia.
“Then on the first fight back, he will fight the best he can against the most dangerous one, who will rush at him at once, Lomachenko,” Kellerman said.
