Posted on 04/22/2020 11:25:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Devin Haney, a 21-year-old world boxing champion, said this week he'd "never let a white boy" beat him.
Haney competes in a wildly-competitive 135-pound weight class, a division in which Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia, Teofimo Lopez, and Vasyl Lomachenko also campaign in.
On a possible showdown with Lomachenko, Haney said: "Fight a white boy 10 times, I'm gonna beat him 10 times."
The comments are similar in tone to Bernard Hopkins' notorious statement to Joe Calzaghe ahead of their 2008 bout, which Calzaghe, who is white, comfortably won.
A 21-year-old American boxer likened to Floyd Mayweather said he'd "never let a white boy" beat him.
WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney made the comments during a 78SportsTV live stream on YouTube which involved a fan-led Q&A.
Haney competes in the wildly-competitive 135-pound weight class, a division in which undefeated fighters Gervonta "Tank" Davis, Ryan Garcia, and Teofimo Lopez all campaign in.
Vasyl Lomachenko, one of the greatest amateur boxers of all time and a technically-adept pro, is regarded as the best lightweight fighter in the world today, according to Boxrec, The Ring magazine, and Boxing News.
Commenting on a potential Lomachenko fight, Haney said: "I'll tell you this, I'll never lose to a white boy in my life. I don't care what nobody got to say. Ain't no white boy who can beat me any day of the week.
"Fight a white boy 10 times, I'm gonna beat him 10 times," Haney said.
Haney's comments are similar in tone to a statement Bernard Hopkins made in 2007 ahead of an eventual fight with the British light heavyweight Joe Calzaghe.
In 2007, Hopkins told Calzaghe: "You're not even in my league."
The long-reigning former middleweight champion added: "I would never let a white boy beat me. I would never lose to a white boy. I couldn't go back to the projects if I let a white boy beat me."
Calzaghe, who is white, beat Hopkins in 2008, landing more punches on the American than any opponent had at that point.
I had a friend on the 1960 US Olympic water polo team who got to know Caseius Clay quite well. He told me that Clay was an insufferable loud mouthed prick at that age (and older too as it turned out).
Some say I am a racist.
Some say I am a saint.
Im just fed up with the stupid and like everyone to clearly understand me.
~ Larry Elder (not an authentic black man), "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"
Never thought I’d pay to see a fight. But, I might to see this punk get his ass whipped.
+1
Hey Devin, could you help me with this math problem?
Just let a white make a reference to a “black boy” and see what that gets him. Maybe Connor McGregor can have a talk with him.
No boxer will “let” another boxer beat him. Stupid headline.
Actually, headline, being a quote, not stupid.
He’d never “let’ another boxer beat him, color irrelevant.
If a white boxer said he didn’t want to be beaten by a black boy. Oh man!
Ok, let’s see if you can back it up.
That’s not the point
The point is if a white boxer said that about a black boy as he says
His career would be over
But we excuse almost anything blacks do including killing each other like genocide
And all their other crap
Take away music and sports....then what
I know a little about boxing, but are there any white American boxers. My 6th grade teacher for homeroom was a boxing can and spent most of the year talking about Ali-Frazer fight (The Fight, the one in MSG).
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