Eddie Hearn hopes Mauricio Sulaiman orders a Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia fight for the WBC’s world lightweight title. If the WBC president at least mandated a Haney-Garcia fight, Garcia would be backed into a position where he’d have to fight Haney or gi...
Devin Haney has decided that he does not need Teofimo Lopez Jr. as a dance partner to delineate himself as a big-name boxer. “Lopez said I have to fight Rolly [Rolando Romero] to get him when I don’t need Teofimo to become a star. Teofimo is not some...
Teofimo Lopez (16-0) recently went 'Live" on his verified Instagram account to interact with boxing fans about a variety of topics. It turns out that it wasn't just fans who were tuning in. Matchroom Boxing managing director Eddie Hearn also left a...
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Devin Haney obviously wants Ryan Garcia to fight him, not Manny Pacquiao. That isn’t the only reason that Haney thinks Pacquiao-Garcia is a bad idea. Apart from potentially taking away one of his most prominent opponents, Haney doesn’t think Garcia c...
Teofimo Lopez is already looking past the leading lightweight competition. The undefeated lineal champion insists greater career opportunities lie ahead than what come from fights to be made his best divisional peers. An upcoming mandatory title defe...
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Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney remain on course to return to the ring in April, just not versus each other. The biggest benefactor from the split is Javier Fortuna, the former 130-pound titlist and current lightweight contender who has made his services...
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WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney has indicated that Teofimo Lopez must face him in order to establish "who the real king is" at 135-pounds. In a recent interview, Lopez expressed his desire to face Haney before the end of the year. The next assig...
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From October 2019 to January 2021, lightweights Teofimo Lopez Jr., Gervonta Davis, Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia were each victorious in their respective fights. In that span, each of the 135-pound fighters have been playing a round-robin game of verba...
WBA, IBF, WBC Franchise, WBO lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez is not steering away from a potential fight with division rival Devin Haney, who holds the WBC's "regular" title at 135-pounds. Haney views himself as the "real" WBC champion - and he's...
Devin Haney claims that Teofimo Lopez is ducking him. According to Haney, the undefeated, unified lightweight champion is using his mandatory IBF title defense versus George Kambosos Jr. (19-0, 10 KOs) as a way to at least delay fighting him. Haney w...
There is still plenty of confusion when it comes to the WBC world title in the lightweight division. Teofimo Lopez, who holds the WBO, IBF, WBA titles, is the WBC's franchise champion at 135-pounds. Devin Haney is the WBC's "regular" champion at the...
Adrien Broner admires the current state of the lightweight division as much as anyone else in the sport. Still, the idea that Ryan Garcia—or any of the other young guns at the weight—can blast out his stablemate, Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis (24-0, 23KOs) i...
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