Bill Haney says he’s got some “Big news” coming soon about his son, Devin Haney’s next fight. Devin (31-0, 15 KOs) has been on the bench since his loss seven months ago, and it looks like he could finally get back in action.
Papa Haney will look silly if Devin’s next opponent is a tomato can or an old washed-up veteran, like many of the guys he built his 31-0 record on. No one expects much from Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) for his return, given the thrashing he took from Ryan Garcia on April 20th in Brooklyn, New York.
Devin needs someone like Oscar Duarte to show he can handle a puncher without being repeatedly sent into the dirt. That’s unrealistic, though. Billy isn’t crazy enough to let Devin fight Duarte and watch him get destroyed.
“Working on something BIG,” said Bill Haney on X.
To help build the Kingry rematch, Haney needs to fight someone like Alberto Puello, Arnold Barboza Jr., or Richardson Hitchins. None of those fights have any chance of happening.
Haney mustn’t lose because he’s got the mega-money rematch with Ryan Garcia in 2025, and they won’t want to mess up that cash. However, Devin has got to fight someone to take the taste out of the mouths of fans, who can’t forget the image of him getting dropped three times by Kingry.
My prediction is Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero will be selected for Haney. That guy seems right up their alley. Rolly (16-2, 13 KOs) is flawed, lost two out of his last four fights, and is a good trash-talker. Romero would help sell a fight between him and Devin on PPV. Boxing fans would eat it up.
It would be a mistake for the former two-division world champion Devin, 26, to face another big puncher after what Garcia did to him. Even a former paper champion like Rolly would be a high-risk opponent for Haney, and he could regret fighting him.
While they talk, we work. While they doubt, we deliver.
Self made. Self paid. We don’t answer to nobody.
Big news coming soon.#HaneyTime #TeamHaney pic.twitter.com/X08nglAQtg
— Bill Haney (@BillHaney77) December 10, 2024
