Devin Haney posted a cryptic message on social media tonight, saying he expects to be dodged in 2025.
He didn’t say who would dodge him, but he may be talking about Ryan Garcia because his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, said a match with Devin would not take place in his first fight after his one-year suspension expires in April.
Devin and his father, Bill Haney, want the rematch with Kingry to avenge their loss from last April. It’s also one of the best fights for Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in 2025. However, if he loses the rematch with Garcia, his career is over. He will regret taking that fight for the rest of his life.
Dev needs to defeat Garcia to show the fans that his 12-round majority decision loss to Garcia on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was just an off night. Haney was fought three times in that fight and an additional three times that the referee did not count.
Andrade criticizes Haney
“I thought about Devin Haney at first because I thought he was going to develop into a Sugar Ray Leonard-style guy, but it just hasn’t worked out that way recently,” Demetrius Andrade said. MillCity Boxing about initially believing Devin Haney would be the guy to beat Gervonta Davis.
“I don’t know if he (Haney) got too complacent or not. He is still young because they earn good money, and then they stop working. I’m not saying he doesn’t work hard. I thought he would be the guy to beat Tank in the future. Beat a lot of those guys, honestly.
“I think he has the skills to beat everybody, but that Ryan Garcia thing. Regardless of the little dust he took, he showed no skills of dominance over Ryan, and Ryan looked like s*** at times. He was tired,” Andrade said.
If Andrade seriously thought that Haney would develop into the next Sugar Ray Leonard, that means he wasn’t there when he fought. Haney doesn’t fight anything like Leonard did. Even an older version of Sugar Ray in 1997 was levels above Devin talent-wise.
“There were a lot of rounds in that fight where Devin should have pushed and pushed, and he didn’t,” Andrade said. “He just let it go, and he threw them Caleb Plant. It did nothing, and Ryan just boo-boo. It was a rough one,” Andrade said of Haney’s loss to Garcia.
Haney tried to neutralize Ryan’s left hook by over-clinching, but he continued to clinch as he looked to grab him. He got away with it in his two fights against George Kambosos Jr. and his clash with Vasily Lomachenkp. That tactic didn’t work against Garcia.
2025 sigh duckin…
— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) January 1, 2025
