Devin Haney, known as the "Mayweather Replica", has now lost his winning streak, but at the same time, there is much more to lose......
With the loss to Ryan Garcia, the only thing that made Haney happy was that he retained the WBC super lightweight championship belt due to his opponent's overweight, but unfortunately, in addition to this, Haney exposed a lot of problems, he was knocked down by Garcia 3 times, and had to write a 31-1 record and 15 knockouts on the record chart.
Before he met Garcia, Haney was widely regarded as a top 10 fighter on the P4P list, but now his reputation has been tarnished, because Haney's performance against Garcia was really disappointing, at least he didn't deserve the title of "Mayweather Replica" at all.
This week, former two-division champion and guest commentator Paul Marinaghi spoke about Haney. Marinaji admitted that through the battle with Garcia, he has a more accurate understanding of Hani's talent and strength.
"Despite Hani's failure, he is still a good fighter, but not a P4P fighter, and Hani exposed that, he didn't have any ability to adjust in the fight," Marinaji said. ”
In the first 6 rounds of competition between Haney and Garcia, they still effectively controlled the situation and took a point lead, but unfortunately that's all, because Haney had nothing else, let alone hurt Garcia, so that the contest entered the second half, Garcia's counterattack horn sounded, and Haney's good days came to an end.
Marinaji believes that from a technical point of view, Garcia is indeed inferior to Hani, and Garcia's offensive means are relatively simple, but even so, he still defeated Hani, so Hani needs to find out the reason from himself.
"Garcia can't show us different dimensions, I'm not sure how to judge him, but it's not so much that Garcia showed something as it was that Haney was exposed," Marinaji said. Garcia's main weapon is still from the left hook, and his left hook is very dangerous, did Garcia show anything else? I don't know, but he did take over Haney. ”
Marinaji analyzed Hani's so-called "great achievements" and bluntly said that in addition to beating Vasily Lomachenko by luck, he faced either out-of-style fighters or overhyped fighters, especially the two encounters with George Cambosos, which made Hani's strength exaggerated.
"In lightweight, Hani's real worthy opponent is Cambosos, who is famous for this victory, and since then it hasn't been ideal, and you need to reevaluate Hani," Marinaji said. In the fight against Garcia, Hani worked very hard, but unfortunately he lacked strength and variability, and my jab was better than Haney. Garcia threw a lot of left hooks, and Haney almost took them, and I don't know what he's doing?"
Bill Haney, Haney's father and coach, has been ashamed to say that his son can be compared to the famous Floyd Mayweather, and Marinaji scoffed at this view, criticizing Haney's team for not being worthy of being equal to Mayweather.
"That's another thing, you can't compare yourself to Mayweather, Hani is not Mayweather at all, they say Haney is the next Mayweather, but Mayweather is only one," Marinaji said. ”
Objectively speaking, Hani still has a certain strength, at least the technology is very delicate, but the author always feels that Hani belongs to the standard lucky person, and his success is more achieved through team operation.
Originally nothing more than a WBC interim lightweight champion, Hani was promoted to the official champion without any challenge, before getting a shot at Cambosos after Lomachenko withdrew from the fight against him. Cambosos' strength is more like a second-rate A-class, or even a second-rate B-class, Hani relied on two victories over Cambosos to become the undisputed overlord of his level, but the gold content was a little low, and then he relied on the referee to help defeat Lomachenko, in short, before 2024, Hani's luck was bursting, and this loss to Garcia seemed to be the result of running out of luck, it seems that God is fair to everyone.