George Kambosos vs. Devin Haney | Sky Sports - 4 June 2022

[daz74]

Great news these big Top Rank fights are on Sky Sports standard charge and not PPV. I’ll be rooting for Kambosos, I thought he was quality against Lopez, hope he fights like that again !

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Press Release | Yoel Angeloni Inks With DiBella, Will Go Pro on Kambosos-Haney Card

Yoel Angeloni, a sought-after amateur, has signed with DiBella Entertainment. DBE will present Angeloni's professional debut on the undercard of the George Kambosos vs. Devin Haney undisputed lightweight championship fight, scheduled for Saturday, June 4, at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.

Melbourne boasts one of the largest Italian communities outside of Italy. Angeloni will debut in a four-round welterweight bout against Ken Aitken (3-0, 1 KO), from Queensland, Australia, who has yet to see even one scorecard go against him.

Kambosos vs. Haney, along with Jason Moloney vs. Aston Palicte, Junior Fa vs. Lucas Browne, and Hemi Ahio vs. Joe Jones will be televised LIVE on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ Saturday, June 4, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.

Angeloni-Aitken and all other undercard contests will stream live and exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+

"Yoel is a legitimate blue-chip prospect, which is one of the reasons I chose the Kambosos-Haney undercard to launch his professional career,” said Lou DiBella, President of DiBella Entertainment.

“Despite campaigning almost exclusively as a junior, Yoel’s talent is extraordinary for his age, and he’s been heavily recruited throughout the industry. I couldn’t pass on an Italian Cuban prodigy with his natural ability. In addition to introducing Yoel to Melbourne’s prodigious Italian community, fighting June 4 at Marvel Stadium will allow him to realize his recurring dream of making his pro debut on a huge show, before his nineteenth birthday on June 11. Who am I to deny destiny? In my career, I’ve seen very few teenage fighters as gifted as Yoel. Everyone at DiBella Entertainment is proud that Yoel chose us.”

Angeloni, 18, boasts an impressive amateur boxing pedigree. Born in Rome, Italy, to an Italian father (Alessandro Angeloni) and a Cuban mother (Olga Lidia Lara), Angeloni was three years old when he moved to southern Cuba with his mother, living in the city of Cienfuegos, one of the country's chief ports. Situated on Cuba's largest natural bay and open to the sea, the bay was visited by Christopher Columbus in 1494. So it should come as no surprise that this was where a six-year-old Angeloni first discovered the national sport of boxing. Over the years, Angeloni developed his craft, earning a place on the prestigious Cuban National Youth Boxing team, where he fashioned a sterling 130-2 record. When he turned 15, he returned to his native Italy, where he was quickly accepted by the Italian Boxing Federation. Fighting under the Italian colors, Angeloni won all 10 of his fights, and captured gold medals at the 2019 Junior European Championships and the 2021 Emil Jechev Memorial International Youth Boxing Tournament.

"I am very happy to be signed with DiBella Entertainment. They are giving me an opportunity to showcase my skills on ESPN+ for my pro debut and on one of the biggest boxing events of the year. I am so excited to be making my professional debut in Melbourne which has a very large Italian population," said Angeloni.

"I want to thank my advisor and manager, Alonzo Benezra, for believing in me from the moment we met and by turning my dreams into reality. Winning the gold medal at the 2019 Junior European World Championship was a very proud moment for me, my parents, my family, and many of my supporters who have followed me during my amateur career. I also want to thank the Italian amateur federation and the Cuban amateur federation. But now it’s time to realize my dream of becoming a world champion.”

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Bill Haney Not (Yet) Permitted To Travel To Australia; Yoel Judah To Lead Devin Haney's Corner For Kambosos Fight

Devin Haney hits the road for the biggest fight of his young career without his primary team in tow.

Travel plans for the WBC lightweight titlist will not include the company of his father and head trainer, Bill Haney who was not permitted to go through customs for their trip to Australia. The elder Haney was denied entry due to a prior conviction holding up his visa application, forcing Devin Haney to literally fly solo en route to Melbourne ahead of his June 5 undisputed lightweight championship clash with lineal/WBA/IBF/WBO champ George Kambosos Jr.

“I’m still at home in Vegas. I wasn’t able to board the flight to go over [to Australia],” Bill Haney confirmed during an appearance on Trill Boxing Talk, a YouTube-based show on which he is a regular guest. “They said my visa hasn’t been approved. It hasn’t been denied. At this point in time, I wasn’t able to go through customs.

“I do want the world to know, as a dad I’ve prepared Devin for this moment and doing what he does best—showing up and showing out. I’ve been preparing him for the day when he will no longer have me. I don’t have my dad, I lost him at the same age Devin is now. It was devastating to lose him, he raised a solid one. I can only hope that all the talks me and Devin has had, that he’s able to remember and to be the man I know that he is.”

It was revealed during the same show that—short of the elder Haney being approved for a travel visa in the coming days—Haney (27-0, 15KOs) will be trained by Yoel Judah—the father and head trainer of retired former two-division and undisputed welterweight champion Zab Judah—for the upcoming four-belt, undisputed championship. The bout will air live on ESPN (June 4 evening in U.S., June 5 locally) from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, regardless of who has to train Haney on fight night.

The customs issue stems from a 30-year-old conviction, when Bill Haney served time on a drug conviction in 1992. Australian visa rules state that felons who have served 12 months or more in prison are ineligible to qualify for an ETA (Electronic Travel Authority) or eVisitor visa required for short-term visits. Bill Haney stated in advance his past criminal record in hopes of avoiding this scenario, though the issue remains unresolved as of Wednesday afternoon.

“That was the thing that puzzles me the most,” notes the elder Haney, who has trained and managed Devin throughout his boxing lifetime. “I was always up front in terms of where I come from, being from Oakland where I made some mistakes I don’t want Devin to make. I made some mistakes at 22, 23, where Devin is now and hopefully he don’t ever have to make those mistakes I’ve made. Those aren’t the paths he wants to go down. I have a felony on my record that goes back to 1992. A federal drug conviction that I served time on.

“I was open and honest to our partners at Top Rank. Lou DiBella with DiBella Entertainment (Kambosos’s promoter) knew about this as well. We were hoping to get the support from the Australian government pertaining to it. Hopefully that will happen in the next day or two, a couple of weeks before the fight that I will be able to go.”

The 23-year-old Haney attempts the fifth defense of the WBC title he has held since 2019. A win over Kambosos (20-0, 10KOs) will make him the youngest male fighter to claim undisputed championship status in the four-belt era.

He will be doing so in his opponent’s home country and without anyone who has regularly worked his corner during his current title reign. Ben Davison, a UK-based coach who has worked with Haney for his past several fights, is also currently sorting out visa issues due to completely unrelated matters that currently restrict his ability to travel.

Kambosos attempts the first defense of his lineal championship and unified title reign following a split decision win over then-unbeaten champ Teofimo Lopez Jr. (16-1, 12KOs) last November 27 in New York City. The unbeaten Australian—who turns 29 on June 14—aimed for a homecoming fight for his first title defense, having fought on the road for his past seven fights upon transitioning from prospect to contender and eventually to champion.

Original plans called for Kambosos to face former three-division titlist Vasiliy Lomachenko (16-2, 11KOs). The fight was never formally announced, with Lomachenko having to bow out once Martial Law in his native Ukraine required him to join his nation’s military force to serve in defense of his homeland against Russia in the ongoing war.

Haney was eager all along to face Kambosos for all the marbles. The Bay Area-bred fighter—who now lives and trains in Las Vegas—called for the fight immediately after his most recent title defense when he outpointed Joseph ‘JoJo’ Diaz last December 4 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in his adopted hometown.

The fight made its way back around, though offered in a take-or-leave-it scenario which also called for Haney to commit to a multi-fight co-promotional deal with DiBella Entertainment and Top Rank. Part of the deal also leaves Haney hamstrung to a one-way rematch clause in the event he beats Kambosos, who would have the right to call for a second fight to also take place in Australia.

For now, the only concern is for the younger Haney to have as close to a level playing field as the situation will allow.

“They weren’t willing to give up anything,” noted Bill Haney. “It’s a one-way rematch clause and they want it in Australia. Devin doesn’t have a rematch in the contract. With this, me not being able to go over, it changes the dynamic of what we agreed to. But we are men of our word. We have this fight right now. The most important thing is to get through this fight right now, that we have in front of us. Get through that with him and then speak to the government.

“Hopefully in the next couple of days or even during the rematch I will be allowed to be let over. They have a character committee or something like that, the Australian government that they overlook people on the fence, that maybe they can accept in. They have a character committee meeting on it. I’m as optimistic about the fight happening when they said it wasn’t happening. I’m just as optimistic about being allowed over there. In all actuality, we have to prepare for me not being there.”

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Judging Panel Revealed; Doesn’t Include An Australian Or An American

Devin Haney has secured the entirely neutral panel of judges he and his team understandably sought for his showdown with George Kambosos Jr. in Kambosos’ home country of Australia.

Boxing Scene has learned that none of the three judges assigned to their June 5 fight at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne are from Australia. There isn’t an American judge on the panel, either, but multiple sources have confirmed that Haney’s handlers had two unidentified judges replaced from the original panel picked to score their fight.

Hungary’s Zoltan Enyedi, Poland’s Pawel Kardyni and Canada’s Benoit Roussel have been approved by both camps and the Australian Boxing Commission as the judges for this 12-round, 135-pound championship bout between Kambosos and Haney. Panama’s Hector Afu will serve as the referee for a main event ESPN will air live the night of June 4 in the United States.

Foxtel Main Event will distribute Kambosos-Haney as the headliner of a pay-per-view show the afternoon of June 5 in Australia.

None of those three judges nor Afu have previously worked fights involving Kambosos or Haney. Afu (WBC), Enyedi (WBO), Kardyni (WBA) and Roussel (IBF) were suggested by each of the four major sanctioning organizations that will have titles at stake in the Kambosos-Haney fight for approval by both camps and the commission.

[Wee Tommy]

So Haneys father failed to get the correct visa to enter Australia and feels because he was ‘upfront about coming from Oakland’ that should be enough to get him in.

What a fuckin tool.

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So Haneys father failed to get the correct visa to enter Australia and feels because he was ‘upfront about coming from Oakland’ that should be enough to get him in.

What a fuckin tool.

Is that what happened?

I thought it was due to his convictions on the 90’s.

[Wee Tommy]

So Haneys father failed to get the correct visa to enter Australia and feels because he was ‘upfront about coming from Oakland’ that should be enough to get him in.

What a fuckin tool.

Is that what happened?

I thought it was due to his convictions on the 90’s.

Yes, it’s because of that. He’s tried to get in on a standard visa going by that article. Maybe it’s the promoters fault but they have left it a bit late to get him over there in time.

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So Haneys father failed to get the correct visa to enter Australia and feels because he was ‘upfront about coming from Oakland’ that should be enough to get him in.

Australian Immigration Authorities: *give immigration forms*

Mr Haney 'aiyo bruh I'm from O-Town, yuh feel me?'


6 weeks later
'aiyo whaddi miss on my visa application?'

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still at least he can rest easy in the knowledge that the ever-calm Yoel 'roll, Zab, ROLL, AND let those hands go!' Zudah will be in the corner, dispensing his usual wisdom

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. Ben Davison, a UK-based coach who has worked with Haney for his past several fights, is also currently sorting out visa issues due to completely unrelated matters that currently restrict his ability to travel.

is Brylcreem Ben entangled in a post-Kinahan spider's web of legal implications, or are the Oz authorities simply wary of allowing that much knowledge into the country?

[Wee Tommy]

. Ben Davison, a UK-based coach who has worked with Haney for his past several fights, is also currently sorting out visa issues due to completely unrelated matters that currently restrict his ability to travel.

is Brylcreem Ben entangled in a post-Kinahan spider's web of legal implications, or are the Oz authorities simply wary of allowing that much knowledge into the country?

His knowledge is so supermassive and condensed it’s like a black hole and will suck all of Aus boxing knowledge in. They are right to keep him out.

Or maybe he’s licked the wrong arse. One of the two.

[Wee Tommy]

So Haneys father failed to get the correct visa to enter Australia and feels because he was ‘upfront about coming from Oakland’ that should be enough to get him in.

Australian Immigration Authorities: *give immigration forms*

Mr Haney 'aiyo bruh I'm from O-Town, yuh feel me?'


6 weeks later
'aiyo whaddi miss on my visa application?'

I mean I may be wrong but you don’t get turned away from customs unless you haven’t been pre approved. Which as a former Felon he should have already done. Now he wants the Aus government to help a brother out. So his son doesn’t have to make those same mistakes he had to make.

I just think this is the biggest fight of his sons life and they have made a big mistake. Yoel ‘the Fanny’ Judah isn’t the man you want in the corner.

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Bruh he told them he was from O-town what else you gonna ask a brutha for?

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So Haneys father failed to get the correct visa to enter Australia and feels because he was ‘upfront about coming from Oakland’ that should be enough to get him in.

Australian Immigration Authorities: *give immigration forms*

Mr Haney 'aiyo bruh I'm from O-Town, yuh feel me?'


6 weeks later
'aiyo whaddi miss on my visa application?'

I just think this is the biggest fight of his sons life and they have made a big mistake. Yoel ‘the Fanny’ Judah isn’t the man you want in the corner.

Could be worse mate

At least boxercise Ben can’t travel

[Wee Tommy]

Bruh he told them he was from O-town what else you gonna ask a brutha for?

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. Ben Davison, a UK-based coach who has worked with Haney for his past several fights, is also currently sorting out visa issues due to completely unrelated matters that currently restrict his ability to travel.

is Brylcreem Ben entangled in a post-Kinahan spider's web of legal implications, or are the Oz authorities simply wary of allowing that much knowledge into the country?

His knowledge is so supermassive and condensed it’s like a black hole and will suck all of Aus boxing knowledge in. They are right to keep him out.

Or maybe he’s licked the wrong arse. One of the two.

Genius is never appreciated in its own time mate

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Bruh he told them he was from O-town what else you gonna ask a brutha for?

He told them he was ‘repping O-town, 510 stand up ya hear?’, they just somehow failed to read between the lines.

[Wee Tommy]

Bruh he told them he was from O-town what else you gonna ask a brutha for?

He told them he was ‘repping O-town, 510 stand up ya hear?’, they just somehow failed to read between the lines.

They made some mistakes I hope they don’t have to make again, word.

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Fight Week!!

[coneye]

Looking forward to this one , . have been watching Kambosas in his interviews , I like him but can;t help but think where has he used to show confidence , now it seems to be arrogance , and arrogance at this level can get you beat

[maverick23]

Looking forward to this one , . have been watching Kambosas in his interviews , I like him but can;t help but think where has he used to show confidence , now it seems to be arrogance , and arrogance at this level can get you beat

Yeah - I’m looking forward to this one too. I like both to be honest and it’s a real good fight.

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[coneye]

Looking forward to this one , . have been watching Kambosas in his interviews , I like him but can;t help but think where has he used to show confidence , now it seems to be arrogance , and arrogance at this level can get you beat

Yeah - I’m looking forward to this one too. I like both to be honest and it’s a real good fight.

What i really like about this fight is the fact win lose or draw Kambosas hard work is going to get him more big fights , more big paydays , and a name up there with the best ,, , He really has made the sacrafices , , training and fighting abroad , backing himself against the odds , and its great to see it pay off for a young fighter , regardless who it is .

[JamesPhilips]

What time is this fight on UK time? Just seen main event 4am uk time….. the bill starts at 10am Aus time, main event 2pm. Was hoping it would be like 10am UK

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What time is this fight on UK time? Just seen main event 4am uk time….. the bill starts at 10am Aus time, main event 2pm. Was hoping it would be like 10am UK

Card starts 2am