Rolando Romero blasts Devin Haney after welterweight fight talks collapse

Haney currently holds the WBO welterweight title after defeating Brian Norman Jr. beat in Riyadh last November, but Romero made it clear he doesn’t expect that unification fight to happen next.

“I never want anything to do with Devin Haney again. He wasted my time,” Romero told Sseconds out in partnership with Campobet. “He said we sent him a great, lucrative offer and all that stuff after we called me out and told me to duck in. I just didn’t want to deal with them originally because, like I said, they’re clowns, and I knew they were going to do it.

“I was like, ‘Oh yeah, okay, I’m ducking Devin. I don’t care, right?’ But the second I put the pressure, boom, who sent the contract? Who sent the agreement? Who sent the offer? We would do it on Prime. Who sent everything? Me.

“You can play the big tough guy until you realize you’re not the big tough guy anymore, right? But Devin Haney knows he’s the most hyped boxer of this entire era.”

The comments put the blame squarely on Haney after weeks of talk about a possible welterweight title fight. Romero does not treat this as a deadlocked negotiation. He treats it as a waste of time.

This is the useful part of the story. Romero says Haney called him out, took the offer and then didn’t move. For a fighter who has been waiting for his next fight since the Garcia win, this gives Romero an easy public exit from the Haney talks.

Haney still has the cleaner belt and the bigger name, but Romero has the tougher quote here. That’s enough for a quick news snippet.