{"id":412297,"date":"2026-01-14T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412297\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:34:15","slug":"richardson-hitchins-wants-devin-haney-next-not-dalton-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412297\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson Hitchins Wants Devin Haney Next, Not Dalton Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dalton Smith grabbed the biggest win of his career<\/a> on Saturday night.
But while beating Subriel Matias for the WBC junior welterweight title made Smith<\/a> a champion, it also made him a target.
Immediately after his win in Brooklyn, New York, Eddie Hearn, his promoter, named numerous fighters Smith could face next. Among them was IBF 140-pound champion, Richardson Hitchins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A unification makes sense from Hearn’s point of view. However, even with an impressive win and a shiny new belt under Smith’s arm, he isn\u2019t on Hitchins\u2019 (20-0, 8 KOs) radar.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevin Haney, I wanna fight you,\u201d Hitchins wrote on X<\/a>. \u201c[Expletive] Dalton Smith.\u201dIt\u2019s been a bit of a struggle for Hitchins to get a dance partner. The 28-year-old was on the verge securing a spot on \u2018The Ring 6\u2019 on January 31 against Jamaine Ortiz, who will fight Keyshawn Davis<\/a> instead. <\/p>\n

However, a fight against Oscar Duarte now looks to be a strong possibility for Hitchins.<\/p>\n

But no matter which names are put to him, Hitchins is determined to get his hands on Haney<\/a>, the WBO welterweight champion.
Haney, The Ring’s No. 9 pound-for-pound fighter beat Brian Norman<\/a> Jr. for the title in November on ‘The Ring IV: Night of the Champions’ in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n

He doesn’t seem as keen on a fight with Hitchins, who would be making his debut at welterweight for a potential clash. <\/p>\n

“You call out everybody to fight nobody!” Haney replied to Hitchins on X<\/a>. “Me, Keyshawn, Teo, Matias, Gary Russell, Brian Norman, Jamaine Ortiz, Frank Martin, you’re just clout chasing bro! Get in the field.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith grabbed the biggest win of his career on Saturday night.But while beating Subriel Matias for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-412297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}