During an interview with Ring Magazine, trainer Bill Haney talks about the upcoming plans for his son Devin Haney as his name has been attached to numerous potential fights as of late. Catching up on what they\u2019re working on at the moment, Bill Haney shared some of these thoughts on Devin\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
Bill Haney on where things stand for a potential fight between his son and Shakur Stevenson<\/p>\n
\u201cShakur hasn\u2019t responded to the 144 lb agreement [he proposed], that Devin Haney said he would have with him\u2026[Devin] put it on there for the people and we haven\u2019t gotten an answer or a response.\u201d<\/p>\n
On where the priorities are for opponents<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the list, Tank Davis, he sits at probably #1. I mean, we\u2019ve been had back and forth\u2026I consider this is real. Me and Al [Haymon] have had discussions, that has made it even more real. Never has anyone said anything about dehydration, rehydration or anything for that matter. So, what I think it should be is a fair fight and that weight is to be determined but it won\u2019t be anything under 144 lbs for nobody in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
On saying Stevenson would be easy work for Devin<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, it\u2019s harder to get him in the ring. It\u2019s been a fight to get him in the ring. I think that\u2019s going to be the hardest part, for Deebo to get him in the ring than to actually be in the ring\u2026That garage that his grandfather taught him how to do it at was a small stage in comparison to the big stage and the big professors that I done learned this game from, starting with Floyd Mayweather Sr, Roger, Eddie Mustafa, and the like.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the WBO order to defend against Keyshawn Davis<\/p>\n
\u201cWell what a great opportunity to be for Devin to be forced to buy more Rolls Royces, houses, and all the other things that he\u2019s getting forced to buy by fighting a mandatory in Keyshawn Davis\u2026He\u2019s on the list, he\u2019s been on the list since before he became a mandatory because we think he\u2019s a heck of a fighter and another opportunity for Devin to move closer to the Mount Rushmore of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n
On their interest in a Boots fight<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I saw him, I saw a fighter that can be beat by a style that Devin has. When we were taught this game, we were taught with the ability to adapt to everyone\u2026Like, you seen the times that Boots had the most problems was when Xander was boxing him. Of course when you have a high boxing IQ and you\u2019re a boxer, that\u2019s what you\u2019re going to continue to do until you\u2019re forced not to\u2026We believe Boots is who he is, but he would be one of the most difficult puzzles that we as a team, as a fighter, would have to figure out.\u201d<\/p>\n
On why a Ryan Garcia fight isn\u2019t happening<\/p>\n
\u201cRyan is, respectfully, on the list. He\u2019s at #1o because there\u2019s some things we would like him to do in terms of maturity or being pushed by his team. Outside of that, we got 10 tremendously fighters [on our list]\u2026We put that on there, we gave it to Turki, we made it publicly as well as privately [known] that\u2019s what we want.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I want to see is him go to the drug VADA program, give us a significant amount of time [to test] for us to have faith that he\u2019s clean.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During an interview with Ring Magazine, trainer Bill Haney talks about the upcoming plans for his son Devin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-776454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776454","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=776454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}