{"id":727441,"date":"2026-08-04T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727441\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:18:10","slug":"devin-haney-rules-out-facing-one-man-after-keyshawn-davis-fight-collapses-not-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727441\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney rules out facing one man after Keyshawn Davis fight collapses: “Not happening”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Haney<\/a> looked set to take on Keyshawn Davis<\/a> in a first defence of his WBO welterweight title, but in a drastic turn of events the fight has collapsed. Now, Haney has ruled out another potential opponent.<\/p>\n

Haney became a three-division world champion when he outpointed Brian Norman Jr to capture the 147lb crown back in November<\/a>, but whilst the Californian is yet to fight since, he was recently ordered to defend the belt against mandatory challenger, Keyshawn Davis.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, after the end of the 30-day negotiation period, the rights to that bout were won by Top Rank in a live-streamed purse bid. Yet, soon after, Davis opted to withdraw from the contest<\/a>, seemingly unhappy with the $2.13 million purse that he would receive for his title challenge.<\/p>\n

As a result, Davis has dropped from #1 to #7 in the WBO welterweight rankings, with former champion, Norman, being moved into position as the number one contender, creating rumours that a rematch between he and \u2018The Dream\u2019 could take place.<\/p>\n

However, on X<\/a>, Haney shot down suggestions that he and Norman could run it back, with potential unification opportunities now seeming the more likely.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not happening. I tell you that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Haney could return to fight in Australia for a third time by accepting a unification against newly-crowned IBF welterweight world champion Liam Paro, with the other two world champions at 147lbs currently scheduled for alternate title defences.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, WBA Regular champion Jack Catterall has thrown his name into the ring for a possible shot at the WBO champion, despite being well poised for a full WBA title challenge later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney looked set to take on Keyshawn Davis in a first defence of his WBO welterweight title,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727441","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\/727441","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=727441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}