Comments Thread For: Devin Haney: After I Beat Lomachenko I'll Get My Respect As P4P Best

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Nah bro! You are placing limitations on potentially massive fights by saying one can’t fight for a specific belt if he’s the mandatory for a different belt.
Boots is Spence’s mandatory but Spence is looking to fight Thurman so you’re saying Boots can’t get a shot at Crawford because he’s not mandatory? No no no, Boots is a much better option than Rocha.

So when Ortiz destroys Stanionis and Spence is busy fighting Thurman, Ortiz can verbally and loudly call out Crawford. That is a mouth watering fight that will outsell a dud like Crawford vs Rocha.

It’s the same exact reason why when a guy like Haney moves up to 140, he can leap over the mandatories and fight any champion at 140.
When Floyd moved up to 140, he fought a legit belt holder in Gatti despite being not ranked at 140.
He did the same thing when he moved to 147 less than a year later when he got dibs at Zab and Baldomir so yes, name recognition and accomplishments can trump the next guy in line.

Floyd has been retired 5 years now but if he was to challenge Crawford for the belt, guess what happens, Floyd will get the fight over anyone.

It’s called being realistic. Why would Ennis or Ortiz look to fight Crawford when they’re in line for Spence? A bigger fight financially. Or on top of that, they could possibly be in line for a vacant title if/when Spence moves up.

Floyd actually fought Bruseles and Corley to become mandatory for Gatti so you’re wrong.

Again it proves my point too, we all wanted to see Floyd fight Tszyu but instead he chose to go after a faded Gatti because it was less risk higher reward. Boxing is a business.