In a textbook case of constructing lemonade, Lance Pugmire reviews that Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez “have every signed a contract” to satisfy on August sixteenth in Saudi Arabia.
The pair will meet at a 145-pound catchweight.
In what’s turning into a theme for 2025, Haney’s (32-0, 15 KO) plan for a revenge bout with Ryan Garcia went up in smoke when Garcia stank out the joint in a loss to Rolly Romero. “The Dream” was admittedly a bit aromatic himself in a dull-as-dishwater resolution over Jose Ramirez that very same night, and as he technically lacks {hardware} after Alberto Puello supplanted him at 140, there was seemingly no clear backup plan.
Enter Lopez (22-1, 13 KO), who’d simply turned in his finest efficiency in fairly a while towards Arnold Barboza Jr. “The Takeover” proceeded to name out welterweight kingpin Jaron “Boots” Ennis, but it surely appears as if he’s snagged a really totally different big-name foe.
This doesn’t promise to be wherever close to as entertaining as Lopez vs Ennis, which may have been a wild shootout, but it surely’s a minimum of attention-grabbing on a conceptual stage. A practical Haney has the type to offer Lopez matches, however we could have already seen the final of that man.
