{"id":13163,"date":"2023-02-02T05:09:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/devin-haney-puts-lightweight-division-on-alert\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T05:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:09:40","slug":"devin-haney-puts-lightweight-division-on-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/devin-haney-puts-lightweight-division-on-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney puts lightweight division on alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney and his father, Bill, say anyone in the 135-pound division who wants to be champion in 2023 must go through him this year.<\/p>\n<p>Haney (29-0, 15 KOs) holds four belts throughout the year and plans to increase to 140 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly makes sense for Haney to do whatever it takes to stay 135 for at least another year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jarbonta &#8220;Tank&#8221; Davis<\/li>\n<li>Shakur Stevenson<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Frank Martin<\/li>\n<li>Isaac Cruz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It makes no sense for Haney to leave the division after his yet-to-be-signed title defense against Vasyl Lomachenko in May.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Haney still has the task of defending against former three-division world champion Lomachenko (17-2, 11 KOs) on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Haney looks big, but he&#8217;s put on a lot of size since his win over George Kambosos Jr. last October, so it&#8217;s doubtful he&#8217;ll hit the 135-pound limit in this fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lightweight division is being held hostage and we&#8217;re looking at who holds the key,&#8221; trainer Bill Haney said on social media about his son and undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never drop the belt. The only man in the world to defend the undisputed championship. I&#8217;m going to defend my title for the second time. Everyone else dropped the belt. I won&#8217;t drop the belt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lightweight. Only one person has the key. To get the key, everyone has to come get it. I repeat. Anyone can get it.&#8221; Devin Haney versus everyone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KwDRSIs9J2I\" data-id=\"KwDRSIs9J2I\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/KwDRSIs9J2I\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube videos\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"DEVIN HANEY GIVES GERVONTA DAVIS &amp; SHAKUR STEVENSON BAD NEWS; SENDS &quot;GO THROUGH&quot; MESSAGE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KwDRSIs9J2I?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>\u201cAgain, anyone can get their hands on it. I&#8217;m not dropping the belt. The lightweight division is locked and you&#8217;re looking at the guy. There can only be one champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who wants to be champion will have to pass Devin Haney in 2023, and someone might consider winning the belt in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Champion, if someone wants to be lightweight champion in 2023, who do they have to go through, champ?&#8221; Bill said to Devin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to go through the undisputed champion,&#8221; Haney said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, you have to go through the undisputed champion,&#8221; Bill said.  \u201cBoxing alert. Lightweight division under siege in 2023. Bad news.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiW2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJveGluZzI0Ny5jb20vYm94aW5nLW5ld3MvZGV2aW4taGFuZXktcHV0cy1saWdodHdlaWdodC1kaXZpc2lvbi1vbi1hbGVydC8yNTc0ODnSAQA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney and his father, Bill, say anyone in the 135-pound division who wants to be champion in 2023 must go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-mma-combat-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/081A8222-Boxing-Photos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}