The pen is mightier than the talk.
First, there was a social-media exchange between two of the sport’s most prominent players, former lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis and the father-manager-trainer of three-division champion Devin Haney, Bill Haney.
That provoked an action that could bring the fighters toward a super-fight this year, with the WBO on Tuesday jumping No. 1-ranked 140lbs contender Davis to No. 1 behind Haney in the sanctioning body’s welterweight rankings.
“Let’s do it, Keyshawn,” Haney wrote on “X” upon learning of Davis’ promotion.
As Haney 33-0 (15KOs) is coming off a November victory over former champion Brian Norman Jnr, 2021 U.S. Olympic silver-medalist Davis 15-0 (10KOs) last month defeated rival Nahir Albright in a hometown 140lbs bout in Norfolk, Virginia.
He’d previously confronted the elder Haney to make the fight happen, bringing Bill Haney to say he’d “stand on it.”
Although there have been industry whispers that Haney is heading to Zuffa Boxing, an official updated on the matter Tuesday told BoxingScene there’s no pressing impediment that would keep Haney-Davis from being negotiated and made.
Now, all that’s missing is ink to paper.
