Tim Bradley insists Devin Haney will likely be able to face Arnold Barboza Jr. if Ryan Garcia must be pulled from the April twentieth card on DAZN PPV on the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Latest York.
Devin’s a “total package” and he got wealthy young, Bradley gushes. Let’s ignore the shaky win against Lomachenko and that point he faced an ancient Regis Prograis.
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Barboza Jr. (29-0, 11 KOs) is the substitute Golden Boy boss Oscar De La Hoya has waiting within the wings if the superstar phenom Ryan can’t go for any reason.
Bradley isn’t saying there will likely be a stampede of fans demanding their a refund for his or her ticket and pay-per-view purchases.
Without talented, charismatic Ryan Garcia on the April twentieth card, people won’t need to pay to look at Haney fight Barboza.
Ryan is the lynchpin that holds the event together. Without him, it could be at an empty Barclays Center with crickets chirping that night.
As we saw in Haney’s last fight with Regis Prograis on the Chase Center in San Francisco, they reportedly gave away complimentary tickets to fill the empty arena.
Let’s Talk Shakur: The Real Fight We Want
If DAZN and Golden Boy Promotions want to save lots of the April twentieth event, they should take Shakur Stevenson up on his offer to step in to exchange Ryan because the opponent for Haney. That’s one of the best possible solution, and in the event that they were smart, they’d already be talking to Top Rank about having Shakur ready.
The query is, would Bill Haney, Devin’s dad, comply with have Shakur (21-0, 10 KOs) because the substitute for Ryan Garcia? This author doubts it. It’s believed that Haney felt the 135-lb division because he was scared of having to defend his undisputed lightweight championship against Shakur when he became his WBC mandatory, and he had him over a barrel.
Fairly than risk his neck fighting Shakur, Haney vacated and headed north to safety at 140 against the past his best 35-year-old Regis Prograis. It was a slick move by Bill to have Devin weasel out just within the nick of time, but utterly pathetic as well.
Desperate Times Call for Daring Moves
- Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis
- Subriel Matias
- Teofimo Lopez
- Raymond Muratalla
- Andy Cruz
- Erickson Lubin
- Janibek Alimkhanuly
On condition that Haney rehydrates to 165 to 170 lbs for his fights, this author threw in some 154 and 160-pounders because those are guys he ought to be fighting against if he weren’t a weight bully.
Bradley’s Haney Cheer Squad
“Look, I’m not anxious about Devin Haney. He’s a whole skilled. He lives the game. He’s one in all the youngest millionaires on the market. He began the sport really young,” said Tim Bradley to Probox TV YouTube channel, gushing with praise of WBC light welterweight champion Devin Haney, who many fans felt deserved a loss to Vasily Lomachenko after which cherry-picked 35-year-old Regis Prograis after seeing his poor performance against little known second tier fighter Danielito Zorrilla in his previous fight.
“You already know, 17-years-old, fighting in Mexico. He’s the whole package. He’s going to be focused [for the Ryan Garcia fight on April 20th], he’s going to be ready, whether it’s Ryan Garcia or [Arnold] Barboza, he’s going to ready for whoever,” said Bradley.
