Comments Thread For: Devin Haney Reinstated As WBC Lightweight Champion

[joseph5620]

None of this would have happened if Lomachenko didn't give up the belt to avoid a mandatory. The Franchise belt is just as bogus.

[James Hunt]

Has Charlo already congratulated him?

[Lomadeaux]

Smfh. That’s bullsh/t.

This stuff will never fly in any other sport. What a joke. I hope he is proud of beating absolutely no one for that belt.

Shame on boxing for this.

Imagine if a team can just complain about not being champion, and then the commissioner hands them the championship title? That would be comedy. Only in boxing can you see comedy like this. 100% a paper champ, has beaten no one of note, beat no one for the belt. An actual fraud right here.

Agreed, completely embarrassing.

[James Hunt]

The last 6 fighters of the decade and who they beat for their first major title:

1960s FOTD: Muhammad Ali vs Ring/Lineal/WBA/WBC Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.

1970s FOTD: Roberto Duran vs Ring/WBA Lightweight champion Ken Buchanan.

1980s FOTD: Sugar Ray Leonard vs WBC/Lineal Welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez

1990s FOTD: Roy Jones Jr vs Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF Middleweight title.

2000s FOTD: Manny Pacquiao vs WBC/Lineal Flyweight champion Chatchai Sasakul.

2010s FOTD: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs WBC/Lineal Super Featherweight champion Genaro Hernandez.

2020s: Devin Haney already off to a hot start: Devin Haney vs No one, for the WBC Lightweight title.

You can also add Charlo. He also got it via email.

[kushking]

using some reason,

1) Lomachenko being elevated to the franchise champion was out of haneys control. Haney at that time was the interim champ (didn't really do anything to deserve it though) and was elevated to the WBC champion.

Undeserved path to a title, but Ive seen fighters facing worse fighters for vacant titles and he actually called out lomachenko.

2) Haney was injured after his last fight in september and was sidelined for at least 6 months. WBC stripped him and demoted him to champion in recess or something similar.

Im not sure why the WBC were so strict with Haney when a lot of WBC champions got a lot of leeway in the past (looking at chavez jr.).

Fortuna Vs Campbell were supposed to fight for the vacant title. Fight didnt happen because of corona. No one fought for the title while haney was injured, so there is no real reason for him being stripped.

Exactly right,these same loma diehards who are talking sh are the same who:defended Loma for ducking Haney by Arum bribing WBC to fight weaker rated Campbell & bypassing Haney who earned it by fighting wbc fights,these same few defended ggg for getting gifted 3 vacant belts he didn't earn,he defended those gifted belts like 18 times & him & all of modern Boxing claim hes now tied with bhop as 20 title defenses when Bhop beat all his contemporaries in that timeframe,& was full titleholder during that time not jr like g was many of them.

So if WBC giving the champ back his title is bs that makes Haney paper champ then so is Loma & Ggg.

[1hourRun]

Lol what fight is your gif from is Haney wearing a Selena Quintanilla shirt.

Yeah that was weird, but The gif comes from this DAZN short film. 'Devin Haney: Boxing's Next Superstar' -- Aint it tha truth? Also, Devin Haney turned pro in Mexico, so maybe thats the reason for the Selena shirt.

[ShoulderRoll]

Lomachenko had just won the belt off of Luke Campbell, and the WBC turned around and called an immediate mandatory? When does that happen? The Franchise thing should have never happened. Haney would have got the fight after the Lopez fight or whatever order that mandatories go in.

Lomachenko didn't win the belt off of Luke Campbell. They fought for the vacant title.

Arum has told Devin Haney in the past that that he signed with the wrong promoter. So it's obvious that he had no intentions of honoring that mando, hence why they requested Franchise Champion status.

In my view Haney rightfully got the WBC belt around his waist as a result. And now the WBC has done the right thing by letting him have it back since he is ready to go and no one can fight at the moment anyway.

[ShoulderRoll]

None of this would have happened if Lomachenko didn't give up the belt to avoid a mandatory. The Franchise belt is just as bogus.

Yep. Exactly right.

[Lomadeaux]

He wanted to fight Lomachenko, actually. And as the mandatory was next in line.

But Lomachenko's team chose to instead drop the belt and accept Franchise Champion status.

So it's fitting that the belt is around his waist instead of Campbell coming off a loss. Or Fortuna.

Lol at you acting like Loma ducked him. Don't stay this kind of crap man. You sound ridiculous.

Lomachenko isn't going to fight Devin Haney........

Not anytime soon....

He's going to unify the belts and if some brand new fighter like Haney is still even around, he'll take him out too.

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Persistent is the key to victory.

Devin Haney persistent pay off and now he have his WBC belt back. If he fight his mandatory in his first fight in Javier Fortuna, I am all board. If Devin Haney have the balls to fight a easy tune-up, then I am in disagreement here. Yes, I know his lightweight division WBC title he win was all outside the ring and never fought a good opponent to merit this status champion.