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I respect your point but I think it's a bad analogy. There is no month long observance in Chrsitianity otherwise people who aren't devout Christians would skip that too. Yeah sure they can be non-devout but still show up to Church for a few hours every few months or whatever, because it's not a big commitment, but if they had to observe something for months, then they wouldn't do it. I assume most ******s would either consider themselves a non-observant ******, and not worry about Ramadan, or they would consider themselves observant, and observe Ramadan. With that said, I'm sure there are exceptions, like with anything, but I'm just skeptical about Haney. He says "Inshallah" in an aggressive, "F you all" kind of tone after beating on other men. He just seems to be marketing to the crowd to try to gain a fanbase. What proof do we have that he's ever observed Ramadan before? I don't trust Haney is a real ****** any more than I trust Tyson Fury is a real Christian. For all we know they are undercover Jesuits or undercover Jooz or undercover satanists or atheists or any other group in private, and they just pretend to be something else publicly. It's actually super easy to do if you have the support network to pull it off, people around you who are doing the same thing and sworn to keep it all a secret together.
But OK, let's pretend we knew for sure Haney actually was a ******. We don't, but let's entertain the idea for the sake of exploring the question completely. Even if Haney is a ****** and even if he does normally observe Ramadan, so what? He can still skip it this year to fight Loma, and then next year he can go back to observing it again. Why not cheat Ramadan for this fight just like you cheated your observance to put Only Fans on your trunks for another fight? What's the difference? If you're inconsistent with something that big already, then it just comes off as an excuse, or marketing tactics, to say there's no way you can do it here too. You've already demonstrated you are not concerned with strict observance all the time, so why are you making a big deal of it now, other than to get headlines and trick people into becoming your fans? Anyone who has been around this dirty game of Boxing for long enough will know to be skeptical of all this stuff, same as Tyson Fury and Ryan Garcia's "we're fighting for mental health awareness" claims and so many other things.
It's just another form of virtue-signalling. "Support me because I stand up for popular causes!" That's all it is. Meanwhile their actions are usually the exact opposite of the virtues they claim to support with their words. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. Fool me twice and all. These people thrive off of fans misplaced and naive trust.
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