Devin Haney has reportedly reached \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d for his maiden WBO title defence, with the welterweight champion seemingly still targeting a date of October 3.<\/p>\n
Initially, this date was reserved for his mandatory title defence against Keyshawn Davis, only for their contest to go up in smoke after the \u2018Businessman\u2019 withdrew his interest.<\/p>\n
The whole saga saw Davis reject a reported offer of $3m, before pulling out of the fight after a WBO purse bid hearing resulted in his promoter, Top Rank, winning with a sum of $8.55m.<\/p>\n
As per the sanctioning bodies\u2019 75\/25 split in favour of the champion, this would have meant Davis pocketing a total of $2.14m.<\/p>\n
With Davis forgoing his mandatory position<\/a>, however, Haney began pursuing a unification match with Liam Paro, who dethroned Lewis Crocker for the IBF 147lb title in June.<\/p>\n According to boxing journalist Julius Julianis, though, the Aussie priced himself out of negotiations and left Haney scratching around for yet another new opponent.<\/p>\n As per a Julianis social media post, which has been reshared by Haney, this led the three-weight world champion to invite Jack Catterall to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n \u201cDevin Haney and Jack Catterall are in advanced negotiations to face off on October 3rd for the WBO welterweight world title currently held by Haney. Negotiations with Liam Paro broke down due to the Australian\u2019s excessive financial demands.\u201d<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 La negociaci\u00f3n con Liam Paro se rompi\u00f3 por las excesivas pretensiones econ\u00f3micas del australiano#HaneyCatterall<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 JuliusJulianis (@julianisjulius) August 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Catterall comes off arguably a career-best performance against Shakhram Giyasov, who he unanimously outpointed for the WBA \u2018regular\u2019 title in May.<\/p>\n
Devin Haney y Jack Catterall, en negociaciones muy avanzadas para enfrentarse el 3 de octubre por el Mundial w\u00e9lter WBO que ostenta Haney<\/p>\n