By Tim Royner: Luke Campbell got the bad news on Wednesday with the WBC reinstating Devin Haney as lightweight champion and ordering him to face Javier Fortuna for the WBC interim lightweight title. It’s got to be tough for Campbell to lose out on a fight for the vacant WBC lightweight title against Fortuna. While it’s nice to be put ...
By Jeff Aronow: The WBC has reinstated Devin Haney (24-0, 15 KOs) as the WBC lightweight champion. The sanctioning body convened and made the decision to reinstate the 21-year-old Haney as the full WBC lightweight champion. Haney can now make a voluntary defense of his WBC belt. Additionally, the WBC has ordered Javier Fortuna and Luke Campbell to fight for ...
By Chris Williams: Devin Haney says he received death threats and a lot of hate in the aftermath of an interview he made last week. Haney (24-0, 15 KOs) wants to make it clear that he’s NOT a racist, and he wants to put this whole episode behind him now and learn from it. In a recent interview, Haney said, ...
By Chris Williams: Devin Haney is still in the damage control mode in making conciliatory-sounding statements to deflate the backlash he’s receiving from boxing fans after his recent racist comment. This past week, WBC ‘Champion in Recess’ 135-pound belt-holder Haney (24-0, 15 KOs) said in an interview he would never lose to a white boy. The comment from the 21-year-old ...
By Chris Williams: WBC ‘Champion in Recess’ lightweight belt holder Devin Haney took to social media on Saturday to make it clear that he’s NOT a racist. It was important for Haney (24-0, 15 KOs) to come out and make a statement on the issue after an interview he made recently in which he said he would never lose to ...