{"id":10154,"date":"2023-01-23T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/george-kambosos-jr-chooses-haney-over-lomachenko\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:20:00","slug":"george-kambosos-jr-chooses-haney-over-lomachenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/george-kambosos-jr-chooses-haney-over-lomachenko\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kambosos Jr. chooses Haney over Lomachenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>To <strong>Adam Baskin:<\/strong> George Kambosos Jr. is choosing Devin Haney to successfully defend his four lightweight belts against Bashir Lomachenko in May.<\/p>\n<p>If Haney&#8217;s recent photos are real and not a photoshopped job, Lomachenko would fight a junior middleweight at night giving him a huge amount of weight. When you fight a class player, you can win just by being big.<\/p>\n<p>To keep things fair, it&#8217;s a shame this fight doesn&#8217;t have a hydration clause. <strong>157+<\/strong> After creating the 135-pound limit, that&#8217;s too heavy for even a talented fighter like Lomachenko to handle.<\/p>\n<p>Many boxing fans don&#8217;t care how much a fighter hydrates as long as he&#8217;s gaining weight. It&#8217;s dangerous if you have a fighter who can dehydrate to lose weight to fight players who are much smaller than him.<\/p>\n<p>In general, it is the younger fighters who can remove a lot of weight to game the system. increase.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Haney can still melt a ton of weight, but he&#8217;s at the end of the road and may need to move up to 140, preferably 147.<\/p>\n<p>Haney appears to be back at welterweight, and it&#8217;s hard to believe he&#8217;ll be gaining weight to fight Roma in May.<\/p>\n<p>Win or lose, Haney (29-0, 15 KOs) is up to 140 after facing Lomachenko (17-2, 11 KOs).<em><strong>    &#8220;big fish&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>    It goes after the strap.<\/p>\n<p>Kambosos feels Haney is too good for 34-year-old former three-division world champion Lomachenko, who is starting to show signs of age in recent fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see Haney defending the belt against Lomachenko. I really like Lomachenko as a person and as a fighter. <em><strong>Father Time Caught Him And Haney Is Too Good<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;\u201d George Kambosos Jr. told Sporting News Australia, choosing Devin Haney over Vasyl Lomachenko.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stylistically, it&#8217;s a bad matchup for Lomachenko. It was the same for me, but that&#8217;s the risk we take as fighters. I think it&#8217;s him. [Haney] Look good in that fight, make a statement, and vacate your belt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gaDSbYFNu8\" data-id=\"7gaDSbYFNu8\" data-query=\"start=786&amp;feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/7gaDSbYFNu8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube videos\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"George Kambosos Jr Talks About Devin Haney Losses And More | Full Interview\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gaDSbYFNu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that stage, we&#8217;re going to be making plans for the next match and the belts will be empty. Big names. The big fish in the division are going to hunt their belts and I&#8217;m one of the big fish again.&#8221; Kambosos said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiVGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJveGluZ25ld3MyNC5jb20vMjAyMy8wMS9nZW9yZ2Uta2FtYm9zb3MtanItcGlja3MtaGFuZXktb3Zlci1sb21hY2hlbmtvL9IBAA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] To Adam Baskin: George Kambosos Jr. is choosing Devin Haney to successfully defend his four lightweight belts against Bashir Lomachenko in May. 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