Devin Haney posted a cryptic message on social media tonight, saying he expects to be kicked out in 2025.
He doesn’t say who would knock him out, but he may be talking about Ryan Garcia as his promoter Oscar De La Hoya has said that a match with Devin will not happen in his first fight after his one-year suspension expires in April.
Devin and his father, Bill Haney, want a rematch with Kingry to avenge their loss last April. It’s also one of the highest-paid fights for Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in 2025. However, if he loses the rematch with Garcia, his career is over. For the rest of his life, he would regret accepting that fight.
Dev needs to defeat Garcia to show fans that his 12-round majority decision loss to Garcia on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was just an off night. In that fight, Haney fell to the floor three times and three more times that the referee did not count.
Andrade criticizes Haney
“At first I thought about Devin Haney for a long time because I thought he was going to develop into a Sugar Ray Leonard kind of guy, but lately it hasn’t been going that way,” Demetrius Andrade told MillCity boxing about initially believing Devin Haney would be the guy to beat Gervont Davis.
“I don’t know if he is [Haney] became too complacent or not. It is still young because they make good money and then stop working. I’m not saying he doesn’t try. I thought he would be the guy to beat Tank in the future. Beat a lot of them, fair enough.
“I think he has the skills to beat anybody, except for that Ryan Garcia thing. Regardless of what little substance he took, he showed no skill in dominating Ryan, and Ryan looked like a dick at times. He was tired,” Andrade said.
If Andrade was serious about Haney becoming the next Sugar Ray Leonard, that means he wasn’t around when he fought. Haney doesn’t fight anything like Leonard. Even the older version of Sugar Ray from 1997 was a level above Devin in terms of talent.
“There were a lot of rounds in that fight where Devin should have pressed and pushed and he didn’t,” Andrade said. “He just let it go on, and he was throwing Caleb Plant at them. Nothing was being done and Ryan was just boop-boop. That was tough,” Andrade said of Haney’s loss to Garcia.
Haney tried to neutralize Ryan’s left hook with an exaggerated clinch, but was repeatedly nailed as he tried to grab it. He got away with fighting in his two fights against George Kambosos Jr. and in the clash against Vasilij Lomachenko. That tactic didn’t work against Garcia.
2025. desolate duck…
— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) January 1, 2025
