Now the undisputed lightweight champion, Haney is not thrilled at being previously passed over by Lomachenko but he is giving the former champ a shot on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS — This is the fight Devin Haney wanted four years ago, but in 2019, he was still working his way toward becoming a championship fighter.
Haney now is the undisputed lightweight champion, and though not thrilled at being previously passed over – he has brought it up, oh, about 1,000 times – he is giving Lomachenko a shot. The two will meet in a 12-round match for the title Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Haney, 24, became the undisputed champion after winning a one-sided unanimous decision over George Kambosos Jr. in June 2022 in Melbourne. The two fought in Australia that October and the result was largely the same.
Lomachenko told Klimas: “I’m not going. It’s not what’s on my mind right now. I can’t think about my career. I can’t think about boxing. All I can see right now is our country’s being bombed. People are getting killed. Everybody in this country needs me here.”“A lot of things are more important than the sport of boxing,” Top Rank CEO Bob Arum said. “One of them is patriotism, particularly when your country is in the grips of defending itself from a terrible aggressor.
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