Devin Haney has been moved to #10 in Ring Journal’s pound-for-pound record regardless of shedding effort in his final struggle in opposition to Ryan Garcia on April twentieth.
Questionable Transfer Regardless of Current Loss
It’s a controversial transfer on Ring Journal’s half to raise Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) to #10 on their record and take away Errol Spence from that spot. Followers don’t prefer to see fighters which are coming off a loss being elevated to pound-for-pound standing.
Haney already had a strike in opposition to him because of his controversial win over Vasily Lomachenko final 12 months in a struggle that appeared to lose by 4 rounds.
Even when the Ring workers wished to dismiss Haney’s no-contest struggle in opposition to Ryan, the controversy surrounding Devin’s win over Lomachenko ought to have been sufficient to maintain him off the pound-for-pound record.
Ring Journal’s Up to date Pound-For-Pound record
1. Oleksandr Usyk
2. Naoya Inoue
3. Terence Crawford
4. Canelo Alvarez
5. Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez
6. Artur Beterbiev
7. Dmitry Bivol
8. Gervonta Davis
9. Junto Nakatani
10. Devin Haney
The Ring workers have thought of that Haney’s twelve-round majority determination loss in opposition to Ryan Garcia was overturned and dominated a no-contest because of Kingry’s optimistic take a look at for the banned PED Ostarine.
Nonetheless, that efficiency by Haney, 25, was so poor that he doesn’t price a prime 10 spot in any pound-for-pound lists.
Ryan knocked Haney down thrice, and a few imagine the referee gave him an enormous break by not counting a further three knockdowns in spherical seven.
The struggle may have simply been stopped in spherical seven, as Haney was dropped 4 instances. That spherical was a pure bloodbath, and the struggle ought to have been stopped.
The judges scored it 112-112, 114-111 and 115-109.
Extra Components Hurting Haney’s Recognition
One other issue hurting Haney’s reputation was his determination to not defend in opposition to his WBC 140-lb obligatory opponent, Sandor Martin. The sanctioning physique subsequently stripped him of his title and gave him the ‘Champion in Recess’ tag.
That made Haney appear to be he ducked Sandor, and lacked the self-confidence to take that struggle after what Ryan did to him.
