WBC lightweight champion in recess Devin Haney commented on a possible fight with WBA, WBO and WBC franchise lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko during an interview with 78SPORTSTV.
“I will never lose to a white boy in my life,” proclaimed Haney. “I don’t care what nobody else says. Can’t no white boy beat me any day of the week. Fight a white boy ten times and I’m gonna beat him ten times.”
Bernard said the same thing…
Yep, and Joe Smith took care of that…..KO of the year….
Actually he said that first against Calzaghe, and Calzaghe took care of that. Then he said it again! And he was “pushed” out of the ring by a right hand that landed flush hahah. This one really came back to haunt him: Kovalev, Smith, and Calzaghe beat him. Ya think he would have learned?
Yep! Then what happened?
Can you imagine an athlete in any other sport stooping so low with a comment such as this? And people wonder why boxing is where it is…
Agreed!! Stupid statements. I liked him until I read this. Hopkins said same thing….BUT,you know the rest
Remember when B-Hop lectured Kelly Pavlik after beating him, saying the same shit, if I was Kelly I would have thrown him out the ring. Gypsy King beat Wilder’s ass and he didn’t make it racial. Haney, I’m rooting against from now on and Ryan Garcia(off-white) is going to knock you the fuck out.
I hate to say it, and you know better than most. Boxing is full of self-destructive people and habits.
I don’t know what their races are, but during his amateur career, Haney lost to at least one Russian and at least one Ukrainian. So, MOST LIKELY, Devin Haney has already lost to a “white boy”.
I lost all my respect for Haney. It’s sad. There are better ways to promote yourself, KID!
Give him a break. He is just making it more interesting
Clearly Haney’s obvious racism was not directed at your race. Why it is Blacks get so blasé when dish it out? Racism makes it more interesting!
Hopefully Loma will take care of that statement
How to destroy your reputation in 60 seconds or less.
Idiot…
Wrong..
Ok, Bernard Hopkins….
He got slapped around the ring in sparring by a hungover geordie lad a while back and spat hit dummy out refused to soar again with him, he was white haha
Jermaine said same thing and Pavlik wrecked him
Pavlik was the most under rated opponent Jermain had, after that fight people took Pavlik seriously. If he didn’t drink and had a top trainer Pavlik could have been an all time great.
He was probably on meth.
Haney and B. Hopkins must have been in the Black Panthers in another life. Nothing like playing the race card to attract a fight and your brain is firing on 6 out of the 8 cylinders in the process. Frankly, it gets old listening to this crap!
What happened when joe laws gave him a hiding hungover in a Vegas sparring session. Haney got pulled out of sparing early white boy?
It’s a stupid comment to make yes his is just publicly exposed but in boxing they slander black man all the time of course folks will take offense to this coming from a young black man but it is what it is yes it was a stupid comment cause this is the America we are part of but none sense Nd racial slurs have been said by plenty of other fighters and man in boxing of other race but it has not been exposed Nd never will be Nd the writer who even posted this article is an coward
A little punctuation never hurts…
Very Funny! Thank you!
Now I will watch, just to see you get your ass beat. Hopefully he breaks your jaw, so you won’t talk
Sounds racist !
Immature and without question unacceptable. Haney needs to immediately apologize and do all he can to regain the trust, honor and respect of the World. I’m a huge boxing fan and as an African American I find his statement repugnant and inexcusable!
Carl, he doesn’t need to “immediately apologize”. If that’s how he feels then that’s how he feels. It’s in us to decide how much that’s going to bother us. I my self find his statement laughable as he is making himself look like a Bernard Hopkins wannabe.
Haney talking some mad sh**t. Don’t get me wrong–he’s a good up and coming fighter with a lot of upside. BUT he will most definitely loose to that “White Man” Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko. Funny…has Devin even fought a top-ten guy yet??
Yet more proof that lockdowns need to end. Too many fighters have developed foot-in-mouth disease.
When you make statements like that, it shows he was a racist way before the lock down.. Sad person indeed!!
What makes this even more laughable is that Haney was basically just GIVEN the title by the WBC as a favor to Eddie Hearn. He fought some no-name for the interim belt. Then got promoted to full champion while sitting on his couch as Loma was taken out of the way by being made *cough* franchise champion. Then Haney defended against another guy nobody ever heard of. Calling Haney a paper champion is an insult to paper.
That’s the WBC, the standard for virtue.
If the races were reversed they’d be demanding the white fighter was suspended!
Afro Americans are the most racist group of people I have ever come across. I am also a minority(Cuban American) and I am stupefy by how racist Afro Americans are and how they try to take advantage of our society by playing the race card. You already lost to “white boys” from Russia, Ukraine, and to Ryan Garcia. It does not surprise me coming from these ethnic group to say something so preposterous. Lomachenko will humble him. You can bet on that.
Not the most racist, but in the top 3 p4p most hypocritical. A race can’t claim something is wrong when it is done to them and then turn around and do the same thing and call it justice because it was done to their people for years, decades or centuries.
Recycling Hopkins plz! Racist pig.
Omg.. what a douche bag!!! I am in nooo way prejudice BUT I hope Loma beats the black off this kid. He needs a good ass woopin, im talking a serious embarrassment in the ring to bring him down a notch.
Is he serious he has fought world class eastern Europeans as an amateur and lost and lomachenko as an amateur was one of the most accomplished eastern Europeans fighters ever as an amateur now a great professional. Russians through the years are known beating the best African American fighters since I was real young so don’t talk too much too soon,he don’t that the great stecebzob was dominated by a Russian or he never heard of ggg or the klitchkos.
Loma is Ukrainian. So are the Klitschko brothers
I meant teofilio Stevenson
ha, I watched that fight live on tv with ali, stevenson was a really good amateur
racist little prick isn’t he
Loma will beat him, simply because he’s a better boxer, better athlete and no matter what game plan Haney brings to the ring, is just a matter of what round will he hit the canvas and will savor his defeat thru his busted lips, not by a white boy but a real champ. I hope this fight happens soon.
Enter the octagon and fight “whiteboy” Khabib Nurmagomedov…let’s see how baddass of a bro you are, lol.
Could you guys imagine if a white fella said that he would never lose to a black guy.. he would be crucified.. this punk will get destroyed my Loma.. totally off of this racist piece of shit now.
Devin… racist much?
Haney lost me as a fan.
I now refuse to ever watch him in the ring.
Double-standard in boxing for sure. I’ve seen white fighters spout racially-motivated stuff, and they get fined or suspended. Bernard Hopkins makes the “never lose to a white boy” comment, and what happens? Nothing. Same here with Devin Haney, who typically is a good interview and seems like an intelligent young man. His “white boy” comment is an offensive, racial slur, and shouldn’t go unpunished.
Dan Adam, back when Bernard said it it wasn’t a big deal. Nowadays, everybody is so sensitive they they get butt hurt over the dumbest shit.
Whetto, not as a remember it. There were a few white fighters who made the reverse comment about the time Bernard made his “white boy” comment regarding Joe Calzaghe. The white fighters were punished; Hopkins was not. Wasn’t okay back in the 80s when white Alan Minter, the middleweight champ, slurred challenger Marvin Hagler, and it isn’t okay today for fighters of any color to use racially motivated slurs to denigrate their opponents. I see that Devin Haney apologized today. Glad to hear it. Again, Devin sounds like a pleasant, intelligent, and thoughtful young man. Never a bad idea to say you’re sorry for making a mistake.
Boxers don’t realise the damage they do with comments like this. All efforts made to eliminate racism are undermined.
It’s just boxing hype. Who takes what fighters say seriously? It’s a great way for Haney to get a little attention. He’s not exactly a household name.
Then a white boxer can say the same thing then? For a bit of hype?
Racist POS. I was a fan until reading this!!! Loma please handle this racist POS.
LMAO, where have we heard this before? Snaggletooth Hopkins should sue Haney for plagiarism:)
Let him fight a white ….if that’s how he fells that’s how he fells that’s him.he could have said it differently but he said straight forward…he has skills so we shall what happens when he faces a class white boy boxer.
Not a wise move….I was a huge fan of his. Watched him progress since he was just 10 yrs old. He just lost my respect…and a fan
Deplorable comment. End of
my instinct always tells me when to like or not like people and I never liked this punk
I rather liked Devin Haney before this. this type of crap isn’t necessary. I would expect Hearn to have a chat with the young man about this sort of conduct
I insist on a disciplinary action for such a racist comment!
Stupid racist asshole…
It is things like this that are ruining the image of boxing. Just too low class. Not even UFC fighters talk like this.
I hope he’s just trying to create interest in the fight.
That’s exactly what he’s trying to do and I’d say it’s working out quite well for him. Only problem is-his mouth is writing checks his ass can’t deliver! Haney is not in Loma’s league just yet.
Why isn’t there more outrage when Blacks are so openly racist? Surely racism applies to all races. What a pathetic thing to say.
Devin Haney is not racist. The overwhelming majority of boxing managers and promoters are white. The vast majority of subscription, ppv, and live gate sales are attributed to white boys. This article on Haney hasn’t been up for very long and look at all the responses. This comment from him will net him many more millions of dollars than if he had not made it. He’s not racist, he’s selling the fight to white boys.
Yours is the typical denial I see from Black people all the time. Make an obviously racist (not racial) statement and then cover up. The racial profile of boxers and promoters means what? What stops Blacks from becoming promoters? Nothing. Have a good look at yourself when you write stuff like ‘white boys’ and think about how you would handle it if it was the other way around. You are not superior you suffer racism like everyone else. I actually live in a country where the Black man’s racism is raging out of control yet he cannot see it at all but can sniff it in the air when it comes to others.
Stupid statement, but it got all of you talking about this idiot. #WhoIsThePuppet?
Sigh….when we hope that the next crop of up and coming stars might be more polished and well spoken to represent our sport we get another thoughtless interview to make boxers look as ignorant as ever
If Loma said that the media would be calling him a racist, Haney is a fool, we don’t need this nonsense in our sport. Haney is all hype!!
We need Loma to say “oh Im gonna beat this black boy silly”.
No we don’t, and ukrainians have more manners than Americans do. Only Western culture breeds this toxic thinking.
He’ll eat his words soon enough. He sure thinks he’s Floyd, but he ain’t…
This will take away from his victory if he wins against Lomachenko. I, however, feel that Lomachenko will make him look stupid and will knock him out around 9th or 10th round.
I understand that Lomachenko is no spring chicken, but he just looks like a most complete fighter I’ve ever seen. He makes other great fighters look amateurish. I do think he has three of four more fights in him. I also think there isn’t a fighter right now who can match Lomachenko’s skills.
What if Haney does get knocked out? Wouldn’t he feel stupid for saying such things? Having confidence is great for a fighter, but it sounded delusional.
Haney is young and foolish, but he got all of us stirred up and talking about him! This is great publicity for him. He will have to eat those words if he fights Lomenchenko anytime soon! I’d love to watch that fight the moment the bell rings just to see the look of horror in Haney’s eyes when he realizes what he got himself into! It will be a good learning experience for him.
If Loma would have said that same comment with ” I will never get beat by a black boy” he would of been band from boxing and labelled a racist. No doubt atleast suspended. F*** Haney
This is disgusting, and Haney has been a fighter I’ve enjoyed watching ascend. His credibility has immediately gone down in my eyes. It’s disgusting because 78SPORTSTV is part of the LDBC or Lions Den Boxing Community which are some of the worst boxing channels on YT. I used to subscribe to 78SPORTSTV’s channel but when I quickly found out what his real agenda was, I unsubscribed. If a black fighter says something they don’t agree with they are called coons or buck dancing boot lickers, etc There is nothing wrong with being proud of who you are or where you come from, however the LDBC is notorious for pushing only black fighters, disregarding greats of other ethnicities and they are pro PBC at the expense of other great fights put on. They are a cancer to the boxing community, when I first started watching boxing in the mid 80’s I do not recall any allegiances to promoters, fighters the way these guys do.
They love conspiracy theories and have been publically called out and debunked by Andre Ward, Ishe Smith among others and even the WBC(!) on issues such as glove gate and others. One of the channels I subscribe to shawnnewtonboxing in his discussion of the entirety of the sport, frequently shoots down their narratives which frankly is the only reason I’m aware of them.
Right. It appears, because Floyd is the most successful figure that Haney grew up seeing, like Adrien Broner and others he wants to emulate it. While Floyd’s skills and ring IQ, plus resume (with caveats i.e… weight drained Cotto, the absurd glove requests in the first Maidana fight) speak for themselves, the way he’s come across, the when compared to previous eras the lack of risk taking, and how clueless his fanbase could be as they ate up everything about his persona are questionable.
Wy they have big mouth all people like that?
I wholeheartedly agree!
he seen mayweather making tons of money from boxing fans wanting him to lose, its called selling your soul
Obviously the words of an ignoramus and a racist.
By making such an ignorant, asinine statement, Haney has already lost to himself.
Those type of comments have no room in sport nor in this world, especially at this time. I was a fan of Devin Haney, however after those comments, I find it hard for me to root for him. With me being a black man, I found it to be a very classless, very immature statement. There are ways to help a fight with our race being involved. Haven’t we learned anything from Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney?
Is he assuming Lomachenko is white, probably has Mongolian ancestry been from the region he is from.
Lomachenko is Ukrainian (East European and white. Nothing to do with “Mongolian”.
Devin should know better than to make a racist comment and I’d like to see him apologize. Moreover, he is simply very wrong. There are excellent fighters in his division of all different nationalities, ethnicities, and colors that can beat him on any given day.
You Will,never say never because you will eat your words
Even Holyfield admitted that he was told, no white boy could ever beat you. He lost to one as an amatuer. One thing we all need to understand, only white people can be racist. Don’t think this came from a white person, do you?
He cant compare himself to Mayweather. Mayweather is the American dream, he came from nothing and he had an unheard of work ethic and backed up his words in the ring without bringing race into it. Why he isnt considered the greatest fighter of all time is beyond me.
Loma gonna disagree with this
Let’s face it. Boxing is the last arena for a lot of these guys. Most came from hard scrabble beginnings. They’re not Phi Beta Kappas. They are going to use bravado and head games to get an edge. This is nothing new. Boxers respect one another. Don’t think GGG doesn’t take pride in beating brothers. Please! He should and be proud of it. This is the game. Don’t hate the players. Haney is just a little immature and outspoken. He got to remember who controls the money.But, you best believe he said what most boxers think. Ethnic pride in boxing is as American as pie.
Remember all the flack that De La Hoya received, just for saying, black guys don’t like it to the body? Nowhere near as bad as this blatant racism.We should boycott his fights, and let him watch his purses go down. Maybe then, he will see that he had white fans, despite being black. Something that doesn’t happen in reverse. Who are the real racists? White people loved Ali, even though he was openly racist.
With a nose that big Lomachenko will never miss!! Loma EASILY beats Haney, I hope they make this fight!
A racially insensitive statement, yes, but I wouldn’t go so far as to label him a racist. I don’t know what’s in his heart and I doubt if anyone who crying racist does either. I also wouldn’t want to have any one of many comments I’ve made used to judge my character. He should be cut a little slack. If anything, all the racist finger pointing that goes on today is counter productive to progress toward racial harmony. I think we all need to thicken up our skin a bit.
This is not the way to sell a fight. I hope it comes back to haunt him.
And when he gets his black ass beat, he will have every excuse under the sun….. as is typically the case.
You gotta get it by your publicist first. No drunk texting and sudden emotional outings. Social media is still press. It can make you or break you. That’s managements faulty for not teaching about that.Especially with him being so young. Now don’t get me wrong the boy spoke from his heart.
I’m an old Southern white man, and it don’t bother me for the guy to say that, whether he means it or not. Probably just trying to get a look from the fans. What does sorta bother me though, is the fact that he can say this and get by while others from other more mainstream sports can say something like that and get suspended for some amount of time. Whites are primarily the ones getting suspended for saying something construed as racial, but occasionally a black will get called out. The fact that folks say shit like that don’t rattle me a whit, but the double standard that goes with it does.
Correction, Bernard said the same thing and Calzaghe beat him the fuck up!!!
yes, he might be able to beat a white boy. But a white man will probably end up beating if he decides to fight one.
It APPEARS to me that this imbecile knows nothing of the recent 25 years of history in boxing. Has this damn fool ever heard of how dominating Whites have been in the HWT division? The Lgt hwt division,the 160 lb division? Not to mention other divisions. The last 25 years or so we’ve seen a slew of European and eastern European fighters that have dominated the top 3 divisions. If you’re going to make comments like that, you should at least know the facts of the last 25 years or so. And with him wearing a paper title belt (by fighting a couple of floor sweepers) this comment shows his complete lack of understanding ANYTHING about the last 25 years of the game. With that said, he was trying to find a way to get a Loma fight. Which I.M.O he does not deserve at this point, however after he gets mutilated by Loma the excuses will be more ridiculous than the comment he made. Haney needs to go to a good head doctor, because he is not functioning on a level that shows any maturity at all.
I would never lose to a whi…….wha…what happened? 1st round? Aw shit.
But if loma would tell haney i wont lose to no black guy, then haney would cry racist. Typical.
Lomachenko will make Haney white . He will beat his head in down to the white meat…lol
Haney isn’t beating Lomachenko. He sounds like Bernard Hopkins who said that before losing to Joe Calzaghe.