{"id":599070,"date":"2026-05-23T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599070\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:32:07","slug":"tim-bradley-predicts-devin-haney-vs-keyshawn-davis-hes-the-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599070\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley predicts Devin Haney vs Keyshawn Davis: “He’s the favourite”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Bradley has assessed the nuances of a clash between Devin Haney<\/a> and Keyshawn Davis<\/a>, believing one man to be the clear favourite in their potential welterweight encounter.<\/p>\n

Following his comprehensive performance against Brian Norman Jr last November, many would regard WBO champion Haney as the top dog at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Dream\u2019 was able to outpoint and dethrone Norman with minimal difficulty, scoring an early knockdown before becoming a three-division world champion.<\/p>\n

Previous points victories over the likes of Vasyl Lomachenko and Regis Prograis, too, have only cemented Haney as one of the finest active fighters in the sport.<\/p>\n

Davis, meanwhile, is yet to fully establish himself as a pound-for-pound star, despite having previously dethroned Denys Berinchyk \u2013 with a fourth-round stoppage, no less \u2013 to become the WBO lightweight champion in February 2025.<\/p>\n

A ring return last January then saw \u2018The Businessman\u2019 defeat Jermaine Ortiz at 140lbs, scoring a 12th-round finish after dismantling his opponent with body shots.<\/p>\n

But now, coming off a unanimous decision victory over Nahir Albright, who he faced in a rematch last week, Davis is expressing an interest in moving up to 147lbs and challenging Haney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on their last respective performances, though, Bradley has said on his YouTube channel<\/a> that he would make Davis a sizable underdog.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling you right now: I don\u2019t care to see the fight. I think it\u2019s an ugly fight. But who would be the favourite?<\/p>\n

\u201c[Based on] their last performances, Devin Haney would be the favourite. Haney has more experience; Haney\u2019s been fighting [professionally] since he was 17 years old. Fighting grown men out there in Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s won [an undisputed championship and has] been in there with legends [like Lomachenko].\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with his experience, Bradley highlights the mentality of Haney as a key factor against Davis, who narrowly missed weight in his first encounter with the scales ahead of the Albright fight.<\/p>\n

Far more drastic, however, was his failed attempt last June, when the American was stripped of his WBO title after weighing over 4lbs above the lightweight limit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley has assessed the nuances of a clash between Devin Haney and Keyshawn Davis, believing one man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599070","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\/599070","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=599070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}