Devin Haney revealed today that the reason he traveled to London for his ringwork was to meet with Turki Al-Shiekh for “Talk about what’s next.”
Fans wondered why Haney, 26, would be training in the ring in London when he has no scheduled fights and is coming off a humiliating loss to Ryan Garcia. It didn’t make sense until now. Devin came to meet with Turki, hoping to fight on one of his cards, and probably for big money.
Turkish Talks
The unbeaten Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) is looking to fight one of Turki’s Riyadh Season cards. However, Al-Shiekh tends to make competitive fights his career, and this could be a bad thing for Haney because he has been shown to be weak in the chin department.
If Haney is knocked out by whoever Turki chooses for him, he will take a lot of interest from a rematch with Ryan Garcia. The fight could still happen, but it would be seen as a prank. Haney would be ready for the junkyard, seen as a hype job, which was never as good as gullible fans had thought.
His best wins were against George Kambosos, Regis Prograis and Vasily Lomachenko. As most know, Haney’s win over Lomachenko was highly controversial in a fight he seemed to lose, but he delivered a 12-round decision victory in Las Vegas. Kambosos was just a flawed, low-level, one-hit-wonderone-hiit who built his career by beating a confused, ring-rusty, injured Teofimo Lopez.
Chasing The Payday
“I want to fight everybody. You know I’m not into tune-up fights. I want to make the biggest fight. I want to fight the best fight in the world. That’s one of the reasons why I’m here. I’m here to meet to His Excellency Turki Al-Shiekh to talk about what comes next,” said Devin Haney to the media today at his London training ground, explaining why he traveled to the UK to watch.
“Turki made an offer to Teo for a lot more money than his offer. He turned it down for whatever reason, and that’s what stopped the fight. It’s a fight that can still be done. One thing that I’m focused is that I want to fight on an even playing field with everyone.
“I want to be a spokesperson for clean boxing because I was the one who really experienced it. I experienced being cheated and what it’s like to fight someone who is on PEDs,” said Haney, talking about his fight with Ryan Garcia . “I want to clean up the sport of boxing. So that’s my focus right now.”
