Devin Haney: From Leisure to Focus – Making a Comeback

Devin Haney is back in practice and ready for the next game. Haney, 26, appears to have lost muscle weight, possibly due to muscle atrophy caused by seven months of inactivity.

135 or 140?

For Haney, a former two-division world champion, weight loss may be a strategic move to ensure he can stay at 140 or drop to 135.

If Haney can return to lightweight, he will have many high-paying fights with these fighters:

Gervonta Davis
William Zepeda
Shakur Stevenson
Keyshawn Davis

German has has been lying fallow The defeat disrupted the momentum of his career since losing to Ryan Garcia on April 20. When you lose a battle like this, the worst thing you can do is remain inactive, think about the failure and be mentally tortured by the memory. In Ryan's case, with a one-year layoff, he has no choice but to sit idle. Honey should be back by now.

Haney's high expectations for the prize money may be one of the main issues keeping him from retiring from the ring. This will make it difficult for him if he insists on getting the same purse he received when he fought Ryan. Only a handful of boxers of Haney's weight could bring him the same amount of money.

Haney's next move

If he had won that fight, he would likely have returned to the ring by now for a big-winner fight with Gervonta Davis or Teofimo Lopez. Tanking could be an option for Haney in 2025 if he handles it right.

Former two-division world champion Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) hasn't given any hints as to who he wants to fight, but if he wants to get paid as much as he does for his fights, he's going to have to fight a A big-name player competes. If this is the fight he wants, he needs to tell his father Bill, make amends with Kingery, share bread and drop the idea of ​​litigation.

Devin Haney is back in the lab🧪🔥 pic.twitter.com/BZTQAFM9Tb

— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) December 27, 2024