Top Rank wins Haney-Martin purse bid

On Tuesday during the WBC’s weekly press conference, a purse bid was held to determine the promotional rights for the mandatory fight in the super lightweight division between Devin Haney (31-1, 15 KOs) and Sandor Martin (42-3, 15 KOs).

Top Rank won the rights to stage the fight with a bid of $2,420,000 USD. A 10% bonus for the winner worth $242,000 will be held by the WBC.

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  • Even though Ryan was probably juicing,but will be hard for Haney to regain his former status. I e can never unsee the beat-down he took.

  • I heard Haney is considering vacating and that Matchroom didn’t even bother making a bid because they presumed he was going to vacate.

  • I frankly am uninterested in watching Haney ever again. Can’t stand to hear his loudmouth father, and Devin was exposed in the Garcia fight. You can’t claim to be a great fighter, if you get knocked down by the same shot three times in a fight, juicing or no juicing. Haney revealed himself to be very limited skill wise, very one-dimensional, and he fights as though he’s scared to get hit.

    • When the weight bully moves up to 147 people will see he’s just an ordinary fighter.
      I think Blair The Flair whoops him easy.

  • I would have given him one more chance, but his father calling everyone a “nigga” and talking about his “people”,and bad mouthing while invoking Allah and Mohammed and yet marrying a WHITE (trash) woman made me despise him and his 1-dimensional son. Hope he reads this

    • Joey, it’s part of the promotion. Let it go. It’s to sell tickets. On another note, if Garcia popped then why is there still a loss in Haney’s record?

    • How come people don’t keep that same energy with Teo and Danny Garcia? Their fathers are worse than Bill and I don’t see anyone hating the sons for the sins of their fathers. Also, especially with Teo, who got beat by a lesser fighter than Ryan and has questionable wins against Martin and Ortiz. Was he “exposed” too? I’m not a Devin fanboy or anything, but it seems he gets a lot of unnecessary hate. To the point that are defending a cheater against him. I just want to understand why.

      • Shaheed, I agree with you on that one Garcia and Teo’s dad are bad. As bad as Haney? I don’t know about that. Kambosos dad was pretty bad too for the fight with Teo and Haney. Teo was exposed hence the easy title defense against claggett. Dad’s as trainers I think operate with too much emotion and sometimes it is detrimental to their son’s. I will say that Sean porters dad was good. I believe they worked well together. There are others just can’t think right now.

      • They’re just as bad. It’s never good no matter who. All that rah-rah makes you want to see their son’s lose just to hear the dad’s cry about it. But like others have said, it’s marketing. Coincidentally, 2 of the fighters mentioned couldn’t sell tickets on their own. The only one, because of his fan-base, is Garcia.

    • He’s just a mouthpiece. I call him Bill the Marketer Haney.

  • Yes, I agree Garcia deserves a suspension. Haney, while not the elite fighter many thought, deserves the loss over turned to nc. Also deserves lengthy amount of time to heal and recover. I’m definitely not a fan the Haneys but the kid should take his time coming back. I think Martin beats him right now possibly by ko.

    • Too soon to be taking on a caliber of fighter like Sandor. He should have taken on a cab driver or the mailman.

  • This might actually be a fight that Haney could come back too. Martin is not heavy handed, but he does have skills. Haven’t heard much from him lately though or his dad. Which I do not miss.

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