Devin Haney posted a cryptic message on social media tonight, saying he expects to be ducked in 2025.
He doesn’t say who would duck him, but he may be talking about Ryan Garcia because his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, said a match with Devin wouldn’t happen in his first fight after his year suspension expires in April.
Devin and his dad, Bill Haney, want the rematch with Kingry to avenge their loss from last April. Also, it’s one of the best-paying fights for Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in 2025. However, if he loses the rematch with Garcia, his career is done. He’d be regretting taking that fight for the rest of his life.
Dev must defeat Garcia to show the fans that his 12-round majority decision loss to Garcia on April 20th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was just an off night. Haney was floored three times in that fight and an additional three times that the referee didn’t count.
Andrade Critiques Haney
“At first, I thought Devin Haney for a long time because I thought he was going to develop into a Sugar Ray Leonard style guy, but it just hasn’t been recently going that way,” said Demetrius Andrade to MillCity Boxing about him initially believing that Devin Haney would be the guy to defeat Gervonta Davis.
“I don’t know if he [Haney] got too complacent or not. He’s still young because they make some good money, and then they stop working. I’m not saying he doesn’t work hard. I thought he would be the guy to beat Tank in the future. Beat a lot of them guys, honestly.
“I think he has the skills to beat everybody, but that Ryan Garcia thing. Regardless of that little substance that he took, he didn’t show no skills of dominance versus Ryan, and Ryan looked like s*** at moments. He was tired,” said Andrade.
If Andrade seriously thought Haney would develop into becoming the next Sugar Ray Leonard, it means he wasn’t around when he was fighting. Haney fights nothing like Leonard did. Even an older version of Sugar Ray in 1997 was levels above Devin talent-wise.
“There were many rounds in that fight where Devin should have pressed and pushed, and he didn’t,” said Andrade. “He just let it carry on, and he was throwing them Caleb Plant jabs. It wasn’t doing nothing, and Ryan just boop-boop. That was a rough one,” said Andrade about Haney’s loss to Garcia.
Haney was trying to neutralize Ryan’s left hook by clinching excessively, but he kept getting nailed while looking to grab him. He’d gotten away with fighting that way in his two fights against George Kambosos Jr. and his clash against Vasily Lomachenkp. That tactic didn’t work against Garcia.
2025 sucka duckin…
— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) January 1, 2025
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