MillCity Boxing<\/a> about what Devin Haney must do for him to have a chance of beating.<\/p>\nThe Ryan Garcia Reminder<\/p>\n
The Ryan fight actually was Devin\u2019s game. He was hurt initially in round one when he was trying to grab Garcia in a clinch. The excessive holding that Haney does in his fights is 100% part of his game, but usually, his opponents just allow it.<\/p>\n
What he didn\u2019t figure on was Ryan catching him with his short left hooks when he\u2019d reach to hold. That\u2019s how Devin continually got hurt in their fight last year in April 2020. If Norman Jr. has been studying how he can catch Haney with a big shot, that\u2019s the way to do it. Haney\u2019s clinching had become a permanent fixture in his game, and he couldn\u2019t be taken away without breaking him as a fighter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if Brian catches him with a good shot, and he feels that strength and that power, he\u2019s going to be on that bike. Who is going to adjust?. If Haney goes on that bike and keeps him on the outside and is doing well on that, how can Brian adjust to that?\u201d said Flores.<\/p>\n
If and when Norman Jr. catches Devin with a good shot, he\u2019s certainly going to get on his bike for the remainder of the fight if he\u2019s still upright. He\u2019s not going to want to take a chance of getting caught again and lay out even worse than he was in his three-knockdown defeat against Ryan Garcia last year on April 20, 2024.<\/p>\n
Norman Jr.\u2019s Hunting Instinct<\/p>\n
The only adjustments that will be made are for Norman Jr. He\u2019ll learn and adapt to the movement that Haney will be using. He\u2019ll hunt him, catch him, and bag him in that order. Norman Jr. has a wolf-like way about him inside the ring with the way he tracks down his prey. Haney\u2019s running will increase that instinct in Brian Jr.<\/p>\n
Flores has got the right idea for Haney by recommending that he use \u201cless movement\u201d and focus on \u201cmore angles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Going by how the former two-division world champion Devin looked against Jose Ramirez on May 2, it\u2019s doubtful that he\u2019s going to be willing to follow his old sparring partner\u2019s advice. He looked in panic mode throughout the 12-round fight against Ramirez, and never got comfortable at any point in the contest.<\/p>\n
Even in the final seconds of the fight, Haney had a look of terror. He did not want to get hit for anything. Ramirez isn\u2019t even a big puncher. So, unless Devin has gotten a brain transplant or found a time machine to bring back the pre-Ryan Garcia fight version of himself, he\u2019s not going to take any chances on November 22nd.<\/p>\n
Bottom Lines: Haney Will Be Forced to Fight<\/p>\n
Devin will be on the run from the get-go, and hopes that the judges will give more weight to his jabs over the power shots Norman Jr. will be hitting him with wherever he can briefly catch him. If Haney doesn\u2019t stand and fight, he\u2019s not going to survive long against this wolf.<\/p>\n
Tom Galm has covered the global boxing scene since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, business trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n
Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Elijah Flores Warns Devin Haney: \u201cStick to Your Game \u2014 or Brian Norman Jr. Will Make You Pay on November 22<\/p>\nLast Updated on 10\/21\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney\u2019s old sparring partner, Elijan Flores, believes he can dethrone WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,5053,94521,94522,42276,94520,24929,19008,3430,82,1134,21618],"class_list":["post-231311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-devin-haney","tag-fatal-fury","tag-fatal-fury-city-of-wolves","tag-fight-night","tag-geoffrey-knott","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-new-york","tag-sports","tag-the-ring","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}