Bill Haney, Father And Trainer Of Devin Haney: “He’ll Box Teofimo’s Ass Up”

By: Hans Themistode

Devin Haney formally made the breakthrough he was searching for. The WBC light-weight belt holder took on his greatest take a look at to this point when he matched up towards former a number of division titlist, Jorge Linares. The 2 confronted off this previous weekend on the Michelob Extremely Enviornment, in Las Vegas, Nevada in entrance of roughly 5,000 followers.

For the overwhelming majority of their contest, Haney did what he wished, when he wished to. Though Haney was in the end rocked within the tenth and spent the ultimate few rounds holding as a substitute of participating, he picked up the largest win of his profession. Whereas most have centered on just a few of his shaky moments, Invoice Haney, father and coach of Devin, would somewhat the general public place extra of their consideration on what his son was in a position to accomplish. With Linares going through among the finest fighters on the earth over the course of his profession, Devin arguably carried out higher than all of them.

“We wished to point out one other fashion of Devin,” stated Invoice throughout an interview with Struggle Hub TV. “He did it from the within, he did it from exterior. When you’ll be able to outbox a Jorge Linares, I don’t suppose anybody has ever went up that a lot on factors on Linares. Not even (Vasiliy) Lomachenko, he didn’t pitch a shutout like that. We confirmed some issues that we all know that another boxers have taken discover to, whether or not they wish to admit it or not.”

Now that Devin Haney has formally handed the take a look at introduced to him by Jorge Linares, Invoice Haney desires his son to take issues to the subsequent degree.

For the higher a part of the final yr, each Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez have hurled curse phrases at each other. Whereas crew Haney shunned putting their power within the forwards and backwards rhetoric lately, now that their match with Linares is formally behind them, Invoice Haney reignited their confrontation. Not solely does the long-time coach need Lopez subsequent however he additionally predicted how issues would play out.

“He’ll field Teofimo’s ass up. You see that we are able to take a shot, you see that we are able to work on the within. Teofimo is the one which’s going to must go to the lab. When have you ever seen Teofimo have an inside recreation? You haven’t. Come on Teo we completed dealt with our enterprise. Now what y’all gonna do? We dealt with our enterprise. What’s subsequent? Let’s make this sh*t occur.”