{"id":493984,"date":"2026-03-25T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:34:16","slug":"devin-haney-confirms-next-fight-negotiations-and-rules-out-one-fake-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493984\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney confirms next fight negotiations and rules out one ‘fake’ rival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Haney<\/a> has shared some important insight ahead of his return to the ring.<\/p>\n

Haney claimed world honours in a third division back in November when he defeated Brian Norman Jr<\/a> to win the WBO welterweight title.<\/p>\n

This current reign has gone alongside his spells as undisputed lightweight champion and WBC super-lightweight titleholder, with fans keen to discover who \u2018The Dream\u2019 will face next.<\/p>\n

Haney has now confirmed who he looks likely to take on, whilst dismissing the challenge of an undefeated former world champion.<\/p>\n

Posting on social media<\/a>, Haney revealed that talks are ongoing with WBA welterweight champion Rolly Romero, along with labelling former WBO lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis as a \u2018fraud\u2019 after Davis claimed he was also in discussions with Romero.<\/p>\n

\u201clol dude a fraud.. fake calling me out but talking on the phone to Rolly. So he know for a fact me & Rolly are in negotiations. Admitted once he was calling me out for clout. He just running the same play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romero won the WBA Regular welterweight title with a victory over Ryan Garcia in May 2025, before he was later elevated to full champion after Jaron Ennis vacated his belt.<\/p>\n

It appears a unification between Haney and Romero is now on the cards, with May 30 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas touted as the possible date and location.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for Davis, after losing his WBO lightweight title on the scales ahead of a planned fight against Edwin De Los Santos, he returned to action at 140lbs in January with a stoppage win against Jamaine Ortiz.<\/p>\n

He stated after that bout his desire to move up to welterweight to potentially face Haney, but it seems any possible fight will have to wait until after Haney faces Romero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney has shared some important insight ahead of his return to the ring. Haney claimed world honours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}