{"id":775898,"date":"2026-09-19T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:22:10","slug":"roy-jones-jr-delivers-honest-verdict-on-ryan-garcia-vs-devin-haney-2-hes-got-the-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775898\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr delivers honest verdict on Ryan Garcia vs Devin Haney 2: “He’s got the tools”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jr<\/a> has weighed in on a potential rematch between Ryan Garcia<\/a> and Devin Haney<\/a>, believing that both fighters have shown greater improvements than Teofimo Lopez.<\/p>\n

Garcia made a first defence of his WBC world title last weekend, defeating Conor Benn with a second-round finish<\/a> at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n

As a result, there is now a jostle for supremacy at 147lbs, with fellow champions Haney, Lopez and Liam Paro all boasting a claim to the ultimate throne.<\/p>\n

In particular, Garcia has expressed his interest in a unification match with Lopez, who claimed his WBA title by dethroning Rolando Romero<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

But while many would highlight this as the most intriguing welterweight matchup, pound-for-pound legend Jones has argued that a rematch between Garcia and Haney is far more appealing.<\/p>\n

The pair squared off in April 2024 and, despite scoring three knockdowns to edge a majority decision, Garcia\u2019s unexpected triumph was ultimately ruled a no-contest.<\/p>\n

This was because the Californian tested positive for banned substance ostarine, for which he served a year-long ban and returned with a unanimous decision defeat to Romero.<\/p>\n

But still, Jones has told Parimatch<\/a> that he believes the winner of Garcia and Haney\u2019s possible rematch would be crowned the top dog at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan is constantly getting better. These other guys, they\u2019re kind of staying where they are. Teofimo has hit a roadblock \u2013 I don\u2019t think he\u2019s really improved much. [Whereas] Haney has gotten better at 147[lbs].<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looked a lot better in his 147-pound [debut] than he did at 135 and 140[lbs]. So I think the Haney fight [is] the one I would like to see the most right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth of those fighters have improved. If [Garcia] can get past Devin \u2026 yeah, he probably could clean up the division. Ryan definitely has the tools and the skill to run it, but Devin does too.\u201d<\/p>\n

While having not fought since his WBO title-winning performance against Brian Norman Jr last November, many still regard Haney as the man to beat at 147lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr has weighed in on a potential rematch between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, believing that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775898","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\/775898","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=775898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}