Devin Haney posted a cryptic message on social media this evening, saying he expects to be released in 2025.
He doesn’t say who it would be, but it could be Ryan Garcia because his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, said that a match with Devin wouldn’t happen in his first fight after his one-year suspension expires in April .
Devin and his father, Bill Haney, want the rematch with Kingry to avenge his loss from last April. In addition, it is one of the highest paid fights for Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in 2025. However, if he loses the rematch with Garcia, his career is done. He would regret taking that fight for the rest of his life.
Dev must defeat Garcia to show fans that his 12-time majority decision loss to Garcia on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was just an off night. Haney was caught three times in that fight and another three times the referee didn’t count.
Andrade Critic 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 he just hasn’t gone that way recently,” Demetrius Andrade told MillCity Boxing about him initially believing that Devin Haney would be the guy to defeat Gervonta Davis.
“I don’t know if he (Haney) has been too complacent or not. He’s still young because they make good money, and then they stop working. I’m not saying he doesn’t work hard. I think he would be the guy who will 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 any skills of dominance against Ryan, and Ryan looked like s*** at times. He was tired” , Andrade said.
If Andrade seriously thought Haney would become the next Sugar Ray Leonard, it means he wasn’t around when he fought. Haney doesn’t fight anything like Leonard did. Even an older version of Sugar Ray in 1997 was levels above Devin’s talent.
“There were a lot of times in that fight where Devin should have pressed and pushed, and he didn’t,” Andrade said. “He just let it go, and he was throwing jabs at Caleb Plant. He wasn’t doing anything, and Ryan was just boop-boop. It was tough,” Andrade said of Haney’s loss to Garcia.
Haney was trying to neutralize Ryan’s left hook by over-chopping, but he kept getting nailed as he tried to grab it. He got away with fighting like that in his two fights against George Kambosos Jr. and his match against Vasily Lomachenkp. This tactic did not work against Garcia.
2025 sigh duck…
– Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) January 1, 2025
