Oscar De La Hoya Blasts Devin Haney With Diddy Diss After Teofimo Lopez Combat Failure
Within the night of June 2, information broke {that a} struggle between boxing superstars Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez was all set to happen on August 16 in Saudi Arabia, which is similar day because the Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Lamont Roach rematch.
This struggle announcement caught many followers without warning for a number of causes. One is that Teofimo Lopez did not appear to be in good standing with Turki Alalshikh just some days in the past, after Lopez launched into a social media rant about Alalshikh, who’s the Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s Basic Leisure Authority. Nonetheless, Turki appeared to place these variations with Teofimo apart and allowed this long-awaited struggle to lastly occur.
However that got here crashing down afterward within the day, as Mike Coppinger of Ring Journal has now reported through X that, “Negotiations have collapsed for a proposed struggle between Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez on Aug. 16 in Riyadh, @ringmagazine has discovered. Haney and Teofimo each scored wide-decision wins on Could 2 in Occasions Sq..”
Within the wake of this, Devin Haney has despatched out a number of X posts detailing what precisely went incorrect with these struggle negotiations.
“the struggle with Teo isn’t signed! I signed my half & Teo has been stalling. As of at this time he has determined he doesn’t wanna struggle me he’s formally the largest 🦆👎🍅,” Haney wrote, implying that Lopez was ducking this struggle from him.
And this prompted a response from the legendary Oscar De La Hoya, who put Haney on blast with an X publish that wrote, “Devin Haney is asking Teo a duck??? Extra like Teo is SMART to not struggle a runner who has much less followers than Diddy does.”
Studying between the strains, De La Hoya is most probably not pleased about Haney’s group transferring on from a possible super-fight rematch with Ryan Garcia (who De La Hoya promotes). Haney and Garcia had been reportedly going to struggle later this yr earlier than Garcia misplaced to Rolly Romero in the course of the Could 2 Occasions Sq. card.
Now evidently not solely is the Haney vs. Garcia rematch not taking place, however Haney vs. Lopez is on the rocks as properly.
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