Absolute lightweight champion American Devin Haney (28-0, 15 KOs) through social networks had a quarrel with the editors The Ring Magazine and gave up their belt.
The scandal occurred after the source updated its version of the top 10 prating R4R (pound-for-pound, rating of the best boxers in the world, regardless of weight categories). Haney is unhappy that he is not on the list.
“If so then The Ring magazine can keep this belt for himself, –
wrote Haney. “You won’t see me with him again before the fight (rematch with George Kambosos) or after it.”
Further, the American shared his arguments in favor of including himself in the top ten: “The youngest absolute world champion in the era of four belts, but not in the top ten. Crazy considering there are fighters in the rankings who don’t even have a belt The Ring magazine. All of this makes their rankings so fucked up.”
Glavred The Ring
Doug Fisher reacted harshly to Haney’s words: “Well then send it back to us, champ!”
To which Haney immediately agreed: “No problem. Throw the address in a PM and I’ll mail it back to you bro. And to dot the “i”. I don’t have to go out The Ring belt. I won it, period. And to go out with him or without him is my personal decision. And if you write to me “return the belt”, then it means that you simply never wanted to see me as its owner.
The correspondence did not end there. Fisher wrote: “Wait. You yourself wrote that we can keep this belt for ourselves. So what is the problem? Let me leave it then.”
Haney’s answer: “Well, come get him!”
Later appeared in the magazine
note about this incident, in which the deputy chief editor explained the position on the non-inclusion of Haney in the top ten. In short, “age is not an argument”, “there are a lot of real contenders for the top 10. So much so that we even seriously considered the option of returning to the top 12 (in which Devin would certainly have a place).”
Interestingly, earlier The Ring belts refused WBC champion British heavyweight Tyson Fury. His title was contested in a rematch between Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk and Briton Anthony Joshua – on August 20 in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), a fighter from Ukraine won by a split decision.
The other day it became known that the head of the WBC is for the fight between Lomachenko and Haney. Earlier, promoter Bob Arum spoke about the same thing: Vasily can become the absolute champion at the beginning of 2023.
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