{"id":772746,"date":"2026-07-01T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:26:08","slug":"wbo-orders-devin-haney-to-face-keyshawn-davis-in-mandatory-welterweight-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772746\/","title":{"rendered":"WBO orders Devin Haney to face Keyshawn Davis in mandatory welterweight defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Earlier today, WBO Founder &amp; Championship Committee Chairman Luis Batista Salas sent an order for a mandatory WBO welterweight championship fight to Bill Haney, manager of champion Devin Haney, and Top Rank\u2019s Bob Arum, promoter of No. 1 contender Keyshawn Davis, for the two teams to immediately begin negotiations for a showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Further, according to Salas\u2019 order, \u201cpursuant to the authority vested in the World Boxing Organization (&#8216;WBO&#8217;) Championship Committee under the WBO Regulations of World Championship Contests\u2026 The parties are hereby granted a period of twenty (20) days from the issuance of this Official Negotiation Order to negotiate and reach an agreement for the above-captioned championship contest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, WBO Founder &amp; Championship Committee Chairman Luis Batista Salas sent an order for a mandatory WBO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,5053,35020,82],"class_list":["post-772746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-devin-haney","tag-keyshawn-davis","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772746","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=772746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}