He won every single round. But I felt it had more to do with the fact that Gamboa was so old and gun shy than it had to do with Haney's brilliance. 17 year age gap between the two fighters and it showed.
I don't think Haney is quite ready for the next level. He needs a couple more years of fights at higher levels. Fight someone like Richard Commey, Jorge Linares etc.
Was expected to look magnificent and win in style, make a statement. He didn't. Bad day at the office. Too early to begin writing him off, it takes two to make a fight.
Need to work on his inside game, he doesn't have one at all actually but he needs more physicality on the inside and a Inside Game
Sure he has the skills to probably out-box all of the fighters at 135 but can he keep a Tank or Teofimo Lopez off of him and also Tank is a nasty body punch and his Frame is not built for body punches, in fact I see that punches to the body does make him reset and back out similar to what Loma was doing vs Teofimo. Only 21 years old though, soon to be 22 years old next week so he has plenty of time and also styles make fights so while he did not look good vs Gamboa, he could come out and look spectacular vs a better opponent
Remember those who jumped off Teofimo bandwagon after that fight before the Commey fight in which he did not look good only for him take it to another level vs Commey and Teofimo so lets not rush to give up on these young fighters but also too lets not overhype them too soon
Great post. I hope you are right.
I think I saw Haney's potential. I feel like this is. Or maybe this is it with whoever is training him. Maybe he needs to make a lot of changes. I didn't like what I saw.
Hard to look impressive against a 38 year old fighter coming off a injury and knock out loss? Haney was supposed to get gamboa out of there period after all the trash he talked about tank fighting gamboa.
bro he beat the dog sht outta him. Gamboa was just crafty enough to stay on his feet. i dont know how u can do any better than total domination
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