{"id":935772,"date":"2026-10-17T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935772\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:06:10","slug":"tim-bradley-blames-one-man-for-devin-haney-vs-shakur-stevenson-collapse-biggest-duck-in-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935772\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley blames one man for Devin Haney vs Shakur Stevenson collapse: “Biggest duck in boxing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of a proposed clash between Shakur Stevenson and Devin Haney falling through, Tim Bradley believes one man, who he describes as the \u201cbiggest duck in boxing\u201d, is solely responsible.<\/p>\n

The two pound-for-pound stars were in talks to collide later this year, with November 28 and Atlanta having been suggested as the potential date and location, respectively.<\/p>\n

According to Stevenson, however, negotiations reached an impasse at the \u201c11th hour\u201d due to Haney\u2019s lawyer demanding that they fight at 147lbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This, if accurate, would have meant a refusal to meet at 145lbs, which both sides had seemingly decided was a sensible catchweight for their showdown.<\/p>\n

But while Stevenson claims he was willing to jump up from 140lbs, the slick southpaw has accused Haney of going back on his promise to drop down from welterweight.<\/p>\n

As a result, Hall of Famer Bradley has said on his YouTube channel<\/a> that, in his mind, Devin and his father and trainer, Bill Haney, are to blame for the fight not happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna name you \u2018Deebo Dev\u2019 \u2013 the biggest duck in boxing. And all y\u2019all thought it was Shakur Stevenson [avoiding Haney] all along.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill [Haney], how you gonna get out of this one? What happened \u2013 you got cold feet? This man [Stevenson] gave up the weight; this man gave up some money.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got your lawyer involved. You said you wanted this fight \u2013 you agreed to 145[lbs] and all. Come on now \u2013 Shakur agreed to it as well. And now we can\u2019t get the fight because you wanted it at 147[lbs]. Is that true, Bill?\u201d<\/p>\n

While Stevenson comes off a unanimous decision victory over Teofimo Lopez<\/a> in January, Haney has not fought since dethroning Brian Norman Jr last November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of a proposed clash between Shakur Stevenson and Devin Haney falling through, Tim Bradley believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-935772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935772","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=935772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}