Blair Cobbs says Devin Haney is a “coward,” and he’s fearful that if he beat him, he’d have his defeat cleansed from his file in some way. A sparring session between the 2 fighters surfaced lately, exhibiting Cobbs beating the stuffing out of Haney at occasions, touchdown some huge photographs.
Haney and Cobbs are rumored to be preventing subsequent in December. If this seems to be true, it might be Haney’s comeback struggle and his means of getting his ft moist within the welterweight division. The 25-year-old Haney has outgrown the 140-lb division, and it might be a mistake for him to empty right down to the burden class for his subsequent struggle.
If Devin is preventing at 60% capability as a result of 20+ lbs of water weight that he should shed, even a tune-up-level fighter may beat him. A second consecutive defeat would end result within the mega-paydays Haney has change into accustomed to disappearing. Furthermore, he’d not be on the A-list and given the red-carpet therapy at occasions. He’d be simply one other fading contender.
Haney is a struggle Cobbs says he’d prefer to have, however he has doubts whether or not it would occur. Haney remains to be sitting on the shelf after the dangerous expertise he had, shedding to Ryan Garcia on April twentieth. Some followers query whether or not Haney will ever be the identical after the way in which Ryan pummeled him.
Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) doesn’t like how Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) reacted to his loss to Ryan, crying about it as a substitute of simply taking the defeat with a stiff higher lip like a warrior.
Blair says that the Ostarine that Ryan examined optimistic for didn’t do something to have an effect on the end result of the struggle. In different phrases, Haney misplaced the struggle as a result of Ryan was a greater fighter, and had his quantity.
“Everyone noticed the way you guys acted with the Ryan a** whooping. You would react higher taking a loss,” stated Blair Cobbs to Battle Hub TV, speaking about Devin Haney’s determination to take the authorized route following his loss to Ryan Garcia on April twentieth.
“Because you needed to behave the way in which you had been, I didn’t begin performing like a coward after a loss. I bounced again. You assume you might deal with somebody like me? You keep in mind that a** whooping, proper? Come and get it, and I’ll take these pillow palms, and stuff it up your [blank] and present you what it truly is, a coward. Do one thing about it,” stated Cobbs.
How Cobbs seemed towards Adrien Broner final June could be an excessive amount of for Haney. Cobbs hits too arduous and would potshot Haney all evening. It won’t go the space.
“There’s been no talks. Truthfully, there’s been extra talks a few Conor Benn or Ennis than Devin Haney,” stated Cobbs to Marko when requested if there’s been negotiations for a struggle with Haney. “Both means, it might be nice for boxing.
First I received no energy now I’m on PEDS. OK
— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) October 17, 2024
“If I may struggle anybody, it might be Ryan Garcia. I can wait, however it might be a struggle value ready for. I’d take a tune-up after which struggle Ryan Garcia. I’d push out a heavy promotion. As soon as I win that struggle, my star standing will go up tenfold, twentyfold, and possibly a hundredfold.
“Devin would in all probability be the final struggle I’d need as a result of they will’t take a loss. They’ll [Team Haney] will begin crying all the way in which. They will’t take a loss. They’ll reverse it [have loss erased]. They’ll do one thing. They’re a really unfair group of individuals that can’t take a loss.
“You’ve gotten this far doing what you’re doing, however once you get thus far, it’s time so that you can bow gracefully that you simply misplaced and be the champion that you’re. You possibly can’t do this. So, all these accolades are pretend. Every part that’s occurred up till now’s false,” stated Cobbs about Haney.
Ryan knocked a couple of chips out of Haney’s self-belief with that three-knockdown, 12-round majority determination, and it doesn’t look good that he’s been sitting inactive all this time with out returning to the ring towards one of many killers at 140 or 147. Haney may have fought Sandor Martin, Liam Paro, or virtually anybody.
“You’re not the true champion as a result of like the place was Sugar Ray Leonard when he took a loss? He got here again. No, as a result of Ostarine will not be one thing that somebody was blood doping could be taking,” stated Cobbs when requested if he thinks Haney shouldn’t have made an enormous deal about Ryan Garcia testing optimistic for a PED for his or her struggle on April twentieth.
Haney had the chance to defend his WBA mild welterweight title towards Sandor Martin however selected to not settle for the struggle after a low purse bid. He was downgraded from WBC champion to ‘Champion in Recess,’ and he’s not the 140-lb champ with that group.
Haney ought to have taken that struggle as a result of it might have given him an opportunity to get a simple payday and present the followers that he’s come again from his loss to Ryan. His determination to reject the struggle and lose his WBC title resulted in numerous followers considering he’s misplaced his self-confidence from his defeat.
“They undoubtedly wouldn’t be taking extraordinarily small dosages of it prefer it’s going to do one thing. More often than not, they’ve Ostarine in most dietary supplements. The factor is, it’s such low dosages that they don’t even put it on the label. If you’re doing these anti-blood doping sorts of issues, they’ll deliver up every kind of stuff, proper? That doesn’t imply it’s going to do something.
“I’ll present you all of the dietary supplements I’m taking simply to maintain my a** alive in coaching camp. I might wager it that regardless that they’ve the best grade and one of the best qualities, they’d have one thing like, ‘Yo, I don’t know what that’s.’ I did numerous analysis to know that Ostarine is a quite common factor amongst dietary supplements basically. A whole lot of the time, the dietary supplements are tainted with very, very small doses of Ostarine.
“Ostarine will not be an enhancement on that stage. It’s solely an enhancement when it’s in a excessive dosage, and it’s mixed with different issues,” stated Cobbs.
Whether or not Ostarine helped Ryan Garcia or not, we’ll by no means know till he and Devin struggle once more. A rematch doesn’t promise with Haney’s dad, Invoice Haney, giving 48-hour deadlines for drug testing and sounding like he nonetheless hasn’t mentally processed the truth of what passed off final April. Invoice remains to be performing like he thinks Devin is on high of the world, unbeaten in a real sense, and seen as #1 at 140.
None of these issues are legitimate anymore. Ryan modified all that along with his one-sided win over Haney, and Invoice has to grasp that his son is seen as yesterday’s information by followers. It’ll keep that means till Haney proves that he’s not washed up.
