WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney and former three-division champion Jorge Linares faced off at the final press conference for their clash Saturday night at the Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, live worldwide on DAZN.
Devin Haney: “I want the best Jorge Linares so when I win, there are no excuses and the world knows he came in 100 percent…it’ll be a very dominant performance. I think the world will be surprised at what kind of performance it is. I think even Jorge will be surprised at what type of fighter I am.”
Jorge Linares: “I’ve fought a lot of big fights, 52 fights, in England, USA, Latin America, this time I’ve come back to Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay. It’s an amazing fight against an amazing young champion. It’s so exciting to show everyone who I am, how much experience I have and how good I feel.”
Haney wins a boring ass decision. He’s not a bad little fighter but this guy is so full of himself he does just enough to win and half the time I fall asleep watching him.
Linares is past his prime and been stopped in every loss he’s had if Haney doesn’t knock him out or stop him convincingly he absolutely sucks!
Very accurate statements.
Paper Champ if he wants respect then blow him outta there in 2! But we all know its going 12.
I think Linares will stop him
We will see, boxing is full of surprises
They ran out of pixels for Linares’ face.
He’s wearing a nice suit, though 🙂
Haney is in a no win situation. If he beats Linares convincingly it will be seen by many that Linares was past his prime etc.
I feel sorry for him as he gets labelled the paper champ and yet has not had the opportunity to try and prove otherwise. He should have had some sort of opportunity to prove himself vs Garcia but for some reason Garcia decided not to take the fight despite getting himself in the mandatory position.
Ward vs Fuzile best fight of the night
Linares looking ‘Rico Suave’!