https://www.boxingnews24.com/2019/05/he ... in-august/
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Zaur_AbdullaevBritish promoter Eddie Hearn is already planning the next move for unbeaten lightweight contender Devin Haney (22-0, 14 KOs) following his outstanding seventh round knockout win over Antonio Moran (24-4, 17 KOs) last Saturday night on DAZN at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Haney knocked out Moran with a brutal right hand in the seventh round that put an exclamation point on his fine performance.
Hearn says the next fight that he’s planning on scheduling the 20-year-old Haney for is a World Boxing Council ordered 135-pound eliminator against unbeaten #2 WBC Zaur Abdullaev (11-0, 7 KOs) in August. The winner of the Haney vs. Abdullaev fight will then be the mandatory for the winner of the Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Luke Campbell fight. Judging by some of the comments from Lomachenko’s promoter Bob Arum on Saturday, Haney won’t get a shot against Loma for a little while yet until after he unifies the lightweight division, and the fight is ordered by the WBC. It could be a year, possibly two before the WBC gets around to ordering the fight. However, with the problems that the still growing Haney is having in making weight for the 135-pound weight class, there’s a good chance that he won’t be able to wait one to two years before the WBC orders the fight between him and Lomachenko. Haney will need to move up in weight to the 140-pound division to accommodate his growing body. There are some who believe that Haney will eventually be a welterweight in the next five years or less.