{"id":819326,"date":"2026-07-23T19:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:49:16","slug":"devin-haney-inks-landmark-dazn-promotional-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819326\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney Inks &#8216;Landmark&#8217; DAZN Promotional Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4v\">Eight months after beating Brian Norman Jr. to become a three-division champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/boxing\/devin-haney-following-floyd-mayweather-major-career-shift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Haney is continuing to forge his own path<\/a> in his boxing career.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4y\">Haney, who has always promoted himself under Devin Haney Promotions, has inked a new fighter deal as he looks to begin his welterweight title reign. The 27-year-old became the latest to sign a multi-fight contract directly with DAZN, as first reported by boxing reporter Sean Zittel.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"51\">&#8220;I&#8217;m hearing Devin Haney is inking a &#8216;landmark&#8217; deal with DAZN,&#8221; Zittel tweeted. &#8220;DHP signing with DAZN directly for a multi-fight deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m HEARING Devin Haney is inking a &#8220;landmark&#8221; deal with DAZN. <\/p>\n<p>DHP signing with DAZN directly for a multi-fight deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Boxing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Boxing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Zittel (@Sean_Zittel) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sean_Zittel\/status\/2080053490911781026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"57\">The report was later confirmed by multiple outlets.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5a\">As part of the new deal, Haney is now widely expected to defend the WBO belt against mandatory challenger Keyshawn Davis. The Haney-Davis fight is trending toward being co-promoted by Devin Haney Productions and Davis&#8217; promoter, Top Rank, on DAZN, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/2080113463867638039\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to Dan Rafael<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5d\">While Davis has yet to compete as a welterweight, he is the WBO&#8217;s No. 1-ranked 147-pound contender. The former WBO lightweight champion is 2-0 in 2026, owning dominant victories over Jamaine Ortiz and Nahir Albright.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5g\">Haney previously worked with Top Rank, which co-promoted a few of his 140-pound title fights in 2022 and 2023. He is 3-0 in fights co-promoted by Top Rank and 4-0 against Bob Arum&#8217;s fighters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5j\">In a nutshell, the deal will not have any major implications on Haney&#8217;s career. The California native has never signed an exclusive contract with a traditional promotion and has had the vast majority of his fights broadcast on DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Haney&#8217;s DAZN deal follows boxing trend<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/01k9hr77b71793hc2v7w.jpg\" alt=\"DAZN\" title=\"DAZN\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"5w\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DAZN | IMAGO \/ imagebroker<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">Haney&#8217;s deal comes one week after Teofimo Lopez made a similar move by signing directly with DAZN. Lopez&#8217;s deal immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/boxing\/teofimo-lopez-secures-welterweight-title-fight-in-147-pound-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landed him another title fight<\/a> against WBA &#8216;super&#8217; welterweight champion Rolando &#8216;Rolly&#8217; Romero.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">DAZN has made a few major moves in 2026 by inking deals with Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions and Premier Boxing Champions to become the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/boxing\/dazn-completes-monopoly-by-adding-last-major-boxing-promotion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> exclusive broadcaster of all major boxing events<\/a>. The only notable promotion the platform is not in business with is Zuffa Boxing, which signed a multi-year exclusive deal with Paramount+ at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">DAZN has also made progressive steps toward returning boxing to linear television with TNT Sports. The two sides agreed on a landmark media deal that will broadcast one major event per month on TNT, billed as &#8216;The Fight.&#8217; The series kicked off with Abdullah Mason&#8217;s WBO lightweight title fight against Albert Bell on July 4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight months after beating Brian Norman Jr. to become a three-division champion, Devin Haney is continuing to forge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-819326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819326","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=819326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}