{"id":408363,"date":"2026-01-14T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:41:10","slug":"richardson-hitchins-wants-devin-haney-next-not-dalton-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408363\/","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":408364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":{"0":"post-408363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-ca","21":"tag-canada","22":"tag-disqualification","23":"tag-draw","24":"tag-fight","25":"tag-fighter","26":"tag-fighter-news","27":"tag-knockout","28":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","29":"tag-ring","30":"tag-ring-magazine","31":"tag-split-decision","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-technical-knockout","34":"tag-the-ring","35":"tag-top-fighters","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408363","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=408363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}