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SPORTS SHORTS 112: DEVIN HANEY BLASTS RYAN GARCIA FOR USING THE NAMES OF MANNY PACQUIAO AND GERVONTA DAVIS


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Devin Haney blamed Ryan Garcia of using the names of Gervonta Davis and Manny Pacquiao without the purpose of fighting either boxers. “The Dream” is upset over Garcia for calling out both fighters and saw the plan to fight Davis and Pacquiao suddenly collapsed.

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Haney stated this during the presscon of his fight with Jorge Linares on May 29. He also discussed his failed WBC mandatory fight with Garcia.

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Devin spoke at Ak & Barak to launch the new global entertainment show, “The DAZN Boxing Show.” He criticized Garcia for what he did, saying: “Me and my team knew that Ryan Garcia was all crap. We knew that he didn’t want to fight me."

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“He didn’t want to fight Tank (Davis). He didn’t want to fight Manny Pacquiao. It was just it was all promotion. And only time will tell what’s going on, and as everyone can see that he’s ducking me. Why fight for another mandatory when you could be fighting for a world title?”

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Turning his attention to Linares, whom he will face in Las Vegas, he added: "I’m very happy to be having someone with a name, someone who’s credible."

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“Some fans think that he actually could win the fight. So it feels good to go in there. I have a few butterflies and go in there with a little with a chip on my shoulder. I have something to prove something and show the world.”

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Haney faces his toughest foe in Linares who is a three-division world champion and knocked down Vasiliy Lomachenko when they clashed in May 2018, while Fortuna is a former world champion. Haney feels based on achievements, that he's taking on a more formidable challenge than Garcia fighting Fortuna.

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Previously, Ryan Garcia believes Gervonta Davis is a great fighter and Manny Pacquiao is a legend. "I think Tank is a great talent... Pacquiao is a legend and still knock me out; both of them can knock me out, and I can knock them out. That’s just the facts," he said of Davis and Pacquiao.

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Gervonta Davis, age 26 years, of Baltimore, Maryland, is a four-time world champion in two weight classes. He was the WBA (Regular) lightweight champion since 2019, and the WBA (Super) super featherweight title holder since October 2020.

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He was a former IBF super featherweight titlist and the former WBA (Super) super featherweight champion. His professional record consists of a deadly 24 wins, 23 by KOs and no loss no draw, for a 96% KO rate.

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Ryan Garcia and Javier Fortuna both claimed as the next mandatory opponent for WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney. To settle once and for all who would challenge Haney for the title belt, Garcia and Fortuna are now scheduled to clash on July 9.

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Ryan García has held the WBC interim lightweight title. He is ranked as the world's No. 3 best active lightweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, No. 4 by ESPN, and No. 5 by BoxRec. García, age 22 years of Victorville, California, has an unblemished record of 21
wins, 18 by KOs.

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Javier Fortuna once held the WBA (Regular) super featherweight title and WBA interim featherweight title. He is of age 31 years, from La Romana, Dominican Republic. He had 36 wins, 25 by KOs, 2 losses, 1 draw and 2 no contests.

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Devin Haney, age 22 years of San Francisco, California, with 25 wins in 25 fights with 15 KOs. He has held the WBC lightweight title since 2019. Haney is ranked as the world's No. 3 active lightweight by The Ring, No. 4 by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and No. 5 by BoxRec.

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Jorge Linares, age 35 years, of Barinas, Venezuela, with 47 wins, 29 by KOs, and 5 losses. He was formerly the multiple world champion in three weight classes, including the WBC featherweight title, WBA super featherweight title and the WBA, WBC and Ring magazine lightweight titles.

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NBA scoring leaders in the ongoing season:
1. Stephen Curry, Warriors, 31.1
2. Bradley Beal, Wizards, 31.0
3. Luka Doncic, Mavericks, 28.6
4. Damian Lillard, Trail Blazers, 28.6
5. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bucks, 28.5

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Three points made leaders in the ongoing season:
1. Stephen Curry, Warriors, 262
2. Buddy Hield, Kings, 232
3. Damian Lillard, Trail Blazers, 214
4. Duncan Robinson, Heat, 204
5. Joe Harris, Nets, 186

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Nino Benvenuti of Italy won the gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics in the welterweight class. He became professional world champion winning the WBC middleweight (1967-1967), WBC middleweight (1968-1970), WBA middleweight (1967-1967); WBA middleweight (1968-1970), undisputed middleweight (1967-1967), and undisputed middleweight (1968-1970) titles.

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Mark Breland of USA won the gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in the welterweight class. He became professional world champion winning the WBA welterweight (1987-1987) and WBA welterweight (1989-1990) titles.


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