Devin Haney has been moved to #10 in Ring Journal’s pound-for-pound listing regardless of shedding effort in his final battle towards Ryan Garcia on April twentieth.
Questionable Transfer Regardless of Latest Loss
It’s a controversial transfer on Ring Journal’s half to raise Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) to #10 on their listing and take away Errol Spence from that spot. Followers don’t prefer to see fighters which can be coming off a loss being elevated to pound-for-pound standing.
Haney already had a strike towards him because of his controversial win over Vasily Lomachenko final yr in a battle that appeared to lose by 4 rounds.
Even when the Ring employees needed to dismiss Haney’s no-contest battle towards Ryan, the controversy surrounding Devin’s win over Lomachenko ought to have been sufficient to maintain him off the pound-for-pound listing.
Ring Journal’s Up to date Pound-For-Pound listing
1. Oleksandr Usyk
2. Naoya Inoue
3. Terence Crawford
4. Canelo Alvarez
5. Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez
6. Artur Beterbiev
7. Dmitry Bivol
8. Gervonta Davis
9. Junto Nakatani
10. Devin Haney
The Ring employees have thought-about that Haney’s twelve-round majority choice loss towards Ryan Garcia was overturned and dominated a no-contest because of Kingry’s constructive take a look at for the banned PED Ostarine.
Nonetheless, that efficiency by Haney, 25, was so poor that he doesn’t fee a prime 10 spot in any pound-for-pound lists.
Ryan knocked Haney down thrice, and a few consider the referee gave him an enormous break by not counting a further three knockdowns in spherical seven.
The battle may have simply been stopped in spherical seven, as Haney was dropped 4 instances. That spherical was a pure bloodbath, and the battle ought to have been stopped.
The judges scored it 112-112, 114-111 and 115-109.
Further Elements Hurting Haney’s Recognition
One other issue hurting Haney’s recognition was his choice to not defend towards his WBC 140-lb necessary opponent, Sandor Martin. The sanctioning physique subsequently stripped him of his title and gave him the ‘Champion in Recess’ tag.
That made Haney seem like he ducked Sandor, and lacked the self-confidence to take that battle after what Ryan did to him.
