Devin Haney vs. Keyshawn Davis - Who wins?

[Sendo Takeshi]

Lopez fought Lomachenko at 23 in his first title defense, and Haney took a big pay cut to fight Kambosos.

I have far more respect for those two. Davis has done nothing to earn that kind of respect from fans.
Ignoring everything else he did before already...

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Lopez fought Lomachenko at 23 in his first title defense, and Haney took a big pay cut to fight Kambosos.

I have far more respect for those two. Davis has done nothing to earn that kind of respect from fans.
Ignoring everything else he did before already...

Lopez almost nearly didnt fight Loma though. He wasn’t happy with his purse. I mean it wasn’t a huge amount. But Loma gave a small part of his purse to Lopez just to make that fight happen.

[Sendo Takeshi]

Lopez fought Lomachenko at 23 in his first title defense, and Haney took a big pay cut to fight Kambosos.

I have far more respect for those two. Davis has done nothing to earn that kind of respect from fans.
Ignoring everything else he did before already...

Lopez almost nearly didnt fight Loma though. He wasn’t happy with his purse. I mean it wasn’t a huge amount. But Loma gave a small part of his purse to Lopez just to make that fight happen.

Lopez probably still ended up making only about half of what Davis was offered and still declined.
To me, that’s just an obvious duck.

[MPW]

Lopez fought Lomachenko at 23 in his first title defense, and Haney took a big pay cut to fight Kambosos.

I have far more respect for those two. Davis has done nothing to earn that kind of respect from fans.
Ignoring everything else he did before already...

Lopez almost nearly didnt fight Loma though. He wasn’t happy with his purse. I mean it wasn’t a huge amount. But Loma gave a small part of his purse to Lopez just to make that fight happen.

Lopez probably still ended up making only about half of what Davis was offered and still declined.
To me, that’s just an obvious duck.

I'm not sure if Davis and his overinflated ego didn't want the fight or he thought he was a bigger draw than what he really is and had some leverage. Davis reportedly turned down an offer for a career-high $3 million, and then after the fight went to purse bids he was "only" going to get about $2.2 million, both of which were considerably more than his reported top payday of $1 million. I certainly understand a fighter wanting to maximize the amount he receives, but now Davis has no fight and no multi-million dollar payday. It doesn't seem like the most prudent career or business move to me.

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De La Hoya blasts soft generation of fighters after Davis ducks Haney

Oscar De La Hoya, Terence Crawford, Timothy Bradley and Shawn Porter had a prudent conversation regarding the current state of the young fighters who are emerging as the faces of boxing.

The talk took place Saturday, one day after Keyshawn Davis passed on a career-high payday to challenge WBO welterweight champion Devin Haney. The legacy-defining fight would have pitted a pair of 27-year-olds in their prime who are widely regarded as two of the top talented fighters in the world. The decision was widely declared as a Davis duck.

De La Hoya, Crawford, Bradley and Porter were manning the broadcast desk for the pre-fight show of DAZN and TNT's "The Fight" on Saturday, which was headlined by William Zepeda's unanimous decision win against Lamont Roach Jr. for the vacant WBC lightweight title.

Bradley had no interest in building up the main event matchup one last time before the opening bell. Instead, "Desert Storm" came out guns blazing and fired a loaded question at "The Golden Boy," without outright referring to Davis' situation surrounding Haney.

"Do you feel like this generation is a little softer than the generation when you came up?" Bradley asked De La Hoya.

De La Hoya, who promotes the likes of Ryan Garcia, Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Zepeda, didn't hold back with his response.

"One thousand percent – absolutely," said De La Hoya. "I mean, it is what it is."

While Bradley erupted in laughter, Porter asked De La Hoya to expand on why.

"I think it's the people around them," he said. "The whispers in the ears. 'Oh, you're great. Oh, you're this. Oh, you're that.' No, you have to prove yourself first. When you keep telling a young fighter, a young kid, this generation, 'Oh, you're great,' they're gonna believe it, and they're gonna work less. They're not gonna take it as seriously. They're gonna think they're invincible. So, yes, this generation is weaker."

While Bradley agreed that today's generation of fighters is softer, Crawford bluntly asked De La Hoya if they're simply more business-oriented.

"To a certain extent, yes," De La Hoya said. "I believe that the money grab, as they call it, it's kind of taken away from going to the gym and working hard and putting the hard work first, instead of the prize. I've always told fighters, 'Don't worry about the money.' When you're winning, when you're fighting, and you have a great team around you, let them worry about getting your purses.

"You worry about training and fighting and staying in shape. You guys know exactly. You guys come from a generation – I do, too – where we work hard and the prize comes later. So these fighters are putting the prize first, and the hard work second."

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Garcia deems Keyshawn 'scared' after Haney fight withdrawal

Keyshawn Davis didn't pass the duck test.

Davis pounded the table for a fight against WBO welterweight champion Devin Haney, and he got what he wished for when the sanctioning body ordered an encounter between two of the sport's most talented fighters. After weeks of negotiations, the fight was pushed to a purse bid Thursday.

Top Rank, which promotes Davis, secured the right to stage the fight with a winning bid of $8.55 million. That meant Haney would have received 75% of the purse at $6.41 million, while Davis would have earned $2.14 million for a fight that would have taken place October 3 in either Brooklyn, Atlanta or Las Vegas.

On Friday, "The Businessman" Davis declined the shot at a legacy-defining dance with Haney.

The Ring's Mike Coppinger reported that Davis originally declined a $3 million purse to face Haney, which forced proceedings to a purse bid, and that he was looking for a $5 million net purse (after management fees) to fight Haney. Davis' previous career-high purse was $1 million.

Davis' refusal to roll the dice and take a chance on himself left the boxing public, including a potential future opponent in WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia, puzzled.

"Keyshawn should’ve taken the fight with Devin – disappointed," Garcia wrote on social media. "Davis had a big opportunity and denied it for money. Don’t be scared to fight Haney. At worst, you lose a 12-round decision. He doesn't hit hard."

Davis (15-0, 10 KOs), a 27-year-old from Norfolk, Virginia, earned the right to fight Haney as a WBO mandatory despite never competing at 147 pounds. Davis, a former 135-pound titleholder, has fought at 140 twice.

The United States Olympic silver medalist won a decision against Nahir Albright last time out in May and stopped Jamaine Ortiz in January, both at junior welterweight.

Haney (33-0, 15 KOs), a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, last fought in November to knock down and unanimously decision Brian Norman for the title in his welterweight debut. The victory made Haney, The Ring's No. 1 welterweight and No. 8 on the pound-for-pound list, a three-division champion.

[Sendo Takeshi]

I can finally agree with Bardley.

[gilgamesh]

Lopez almost nearly didnt fight Loma though. He wasn’t happy with his purse. I mean it wasn’t a huge amount. But Loma gave a small part of his purse to Lopez just to make that fight happen.

Lopez probably still ended up making only about half of what Davis was offered and still declined.
To me, that’s just an obvious duck.

I'm not sure if Davis and his overinflated ego didn't want the fight or he thought he was a bigger draw than what he really is and had some leverage. Davis reportedly turned down an offer for a career-high $3 million, and then after the fight went to purse bids he was "only" going to get about $2.2 million, both of which were considerably more than his reported top payday of $1 million. I certainly understand a fighter wanting to maximize the amount he receives, but now Davis has no fight and no multi-million dollar payday. It doesn't seem like the most prudent career or business move to me.

To Me the way you deal with fighters turning down opportunities or pricing themselves out of a big chance. Especially a big chance that they specifically asked for is you just put em in their place of what they could've been worth and what they are worth.

Let him know he was gonna get 2.2 or 3 Million and now next time he fights. He'll be lucky to get 100K.

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Lopez probably still ended up making only about half of what Davis was offered and still declined.
To me, that’s just an obvious duck.

I'm not sure if Davis and his overinflated ego didn't want the fight or he thought he was a bigger draw than what he really is and had some leverage. Davis reportedly turned down an offer for a career-high $3 million, and then after the fight went to purse bids he was "only" going to get about $2.2 million, both of which were considerably more than his reported top payday of $1 million. I certainly understand a fighter wanting to maximize the amount he receives, but now Davis has no fight and no multi-million dollar payday. It doesn't seem like the most prudent career or business move to me.

To Me the way you deal with fighters turning down opportunities or pricing themselves out of a big chance. Especially a big chance that they specifically asked for is you just put em in their place of what they could've been worth and what they are worth.

Let him know he was gonna get 2.2 or 3 Million and now next time he fights. He'll be lucky to get 100K.

He’ll have a minimum guarantee which will be more than 100k unfortunately..

Yes lucky to even be getting a shot at the 147 belt. He has never fought at the weight.

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Tim Bradley sums up Keyshawn Davis pulling out of Devin Haney mandatory fight

On his YouTube channel, Bradley branded it a ‘duck’, criticising Davis for wasting Haney’s time and telling him that he has not done enough in the sport to warrant more than the purse that he was set to make.

“This is [the] damn duck of all ducks from Keyshawn Davis. This doesn’t look good, at all – saying no to this particular fight right here, when you think about everything that he did.”

“[After] everything that he did to put himself in this position and then to all of a sudden say, ‘oh, it ain’t enough money on the table’. Are you kidding me? You are going to take ‘Deebo’ [Haney] through all of this and then you are going to back out of the fight because it ain’t enough money for you?

“Keyshawn, what have you done? You have got to understand, what have you done in the sport, bro? You had a belt for a few months, that is it. I understand that you have got elite skill, I get that, but you haven’t done anything to acquire anything more than what you just got [offered].”

[Cent0089]

Funniest thing is, Davis would probably beat Haney. Pathetic duck. Lets fight Nahir Albright for the third time for 100k

[MPW]

I'm not sure if Davis and his overinflated ego didn't want the fight or he thought he was a bigger draw than what he really is and had some leverage. Davis reportedly turned down an offer for a career-high $3 million, and then after the fight went to purse bids he was "only" going to get about $2.2 million, both of which were considerably more than his reported top payday of $1 million. I certainly understand a fighter wanting to maximize the amount he receives, but now Davis has no fight and no multi-million dollar payday. It doesn't seem like the most prudent career or business move to me.

To Me the way you deal with fighters turning down opportunities or pricing themselves out of a big chance. Especially a big chance that they specifically asked for is you just put em in their place of what they could've been worth and what they are worth.

Let him know he was gonna get 2.2 or 3 Million and now next time he fights. He'll be lucky to get 100K.

He’ll have a minimum guarantee which will be more than 100k unfortunately..

Yes lucky to even be getting a shot at the 147 belt. He has never fought at the weight.

I agree that he'll want a specific minimum dollar amount guarantee to fight, but that also doesn't mean anyone will be willing to pay it.

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Andy Cruz latest to criticize Keyshawn after declining Haney fight

Having long claimed his priority was a Devin Haney title fight, Keyshawn Davis withdrew from the opportunity and Andy Cruz believes he knows why.

"He doesn't want to risk losing," Cruz told YSM Sports Media in an interview this week. "He doesn't want to risk it for the good fights, he's just taking care of himself like a baby, protecting his record."

Top Rank, who promote Davis, won last week's purse bid for Haney's proposed first title defense with an $8.55m offer. The subsequent withdrawal came as a surprise, all things considered.

Davis (15-0, 10 KOs, 1 NC) would have earned 25 percent of said bid, equating to just over $2.1m but The Ring's Mike Coppinger reported he was seeking $5m net after management fees.

Following a forgettable weight miss saw him lose the WBO 135-pound strap before a June 7 homecoming with Edwin de Los Santos, Keyshawn steadily made waves in a new division.

He scored a 12th-round stoppage win over former title challenger Jamaine Ortiz on January 31, before outboxing Nahir Albright to the tune of a wide points win in their May 16 rematch.

The 27-year-old rejected an IBF 140-pound title opportunity and insisted, two fights into his junior welterweight campaign, he'd be heading up to 147 pounds.

This week, DAZN's Chris Mannix shared that Top Rank don't owe the Olympic silver medallist another fight opportunity until May 2027 and could conceivably shelve and extend his contract as part of a tolling provision.

"I think it was 50/50, but he didn't want to take a dangerous fight," the 30-year-old continued.