Up next in 10
Devin Haney On His Fight With George Kambosos For The Undisputed Lightweight Boxing Title
May 19, 2022
On June 5th Devin Haney (27-0, 15 KOs) will face off against George Kambosos (20-10, 10 KOs) in Melbourne Australia at the Marvel Stadium. Haney talks with Sway and Horse about the fight and what to expect.
Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
Watch the Best of Sway In The Morning! http://bit.ly/BestOfSITM
Check out More From Sway’s Universe
http://swaysuniverse.com
http://twitter.com/swaysuniverse
http://instagram.com/swaysuniverse
http://facebook.com/swaysuniverse
#DevinHaney #GeorgeKambosos #lightweightboxing #SwaysUniverse #SwayInTheMorning #SiriusXM #Shade45
About SWAY’s UNIVERSE
Exclusive interviews from Sway Calloway and the Sway In The Morning/ SwaysUniverse.com team with some of today's biggest celebrities, like Kevin Hart, Kanye West, Eminem, Usher, Jessica Alba, Steve Aoki, Torey Lanez, Julia Stiles and so much more.
Devin Haney On His Fight With George Kambosos For The Undisputed Lightweight Boxing Title https://youtu.be/OTp-TXnhRAs
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
and steal the wbc the lightweight
0:05
champion of the world
0:08
the dream
0:10
[Music]
0:11
haiti undefeated citizens and he sits
0:15
with us right now
0:17
this man has carved his own path and
0:19
he's done it since day one
0:21
big horse
0:23
through the vision and the tutelage of
0:25
his dad
0:26
who was of that bay area soil so you
0:28
know he got the hustle naturally in him
0:31
he
0:32
made sense to me
0:33
that he spawned a champion
0:36
it's in his bloodline
0:38
they scared of him facts they fear him
0:41
facts i've seen it
0:43
they won't even acknowledge his
0:44
greatness facts they do that to deflect
0:47
because they don't want to acknowledge
0:49
his greatness
0:50
you know how hard it is
0:52
for him to fight
0:54
because no one wants to fight a
0:57
even make sense if you're in this sport
0:59
of boxing to not want to fight the
1:02
champion
1:03
and how many so-called champions have
1:05
sidestepped fighting this man because of
1:08
his prowess
1:10
his boxing skill
1:12
his ring iq
1:13
his ability to take a punch yes his
1:15
ability to deliver a punch and he's here
1:18
with us on time horse oh man on time on
1:21
time give it up for the wbc lightweight
1:24
champion of the world
1:28
[Applause]
1:38
now the intro is crazy it really was you
1:41
know why
1:42
because there's truth in that interest
1:43
absolutely
1:45
all facts bill welcome to the show by
1:47
the way absolutely good to have you here
1:49
man i love a father who stands next to
1:51
that their kid they get this man he's
1:53
not a kid obviously and and help see his
1:56
dream through help see his vision
1:58
through i appreciate that from from a
2:00
dad to a dad absolutely and i appreciate
2:03
the intro you know i love the bay area
2:05
but you know i got to represent the oh
2:07
you know we out there east oakland
2:09
you know what i mean
2:11
it is a difference
2:13
it is a difference
2:15
just like it's a difference in you know
2:17
you got george cambosis who hauls three
2:19
titles absolutely but it's a difference
2:22
in the titles you hold right absolutely
2:24
that's a difference in the champ that
2:26
you are
2:27
let's talk about those differences all
2:29
right devin welcome to the show
2:31
good to have you here man how you
2:33
feeling with me i hugged evan out in the
2:35
lobby i'm sure you did
2:37
[ __ ] you know i didn't know what i was
2:39
getting into horse
2:40
cause you got to be what 135 yeah
2:43
that's what i fight at 135 135 but man
2:46
when i hugged you bro you felt like oh
2:48
you felt like about 160 pounds of tank
2:51
no it was crazy when a lot of people see
2:53
me like on tv or and stuff like that
2:55
they think i'm a lot smaller they didn't
2:57
see me in person like oh wait he's way
2:59
bigger than what i thought you were it's
3:00
a problem yeah man that that's that's
3:03
something how big put it in perspective
3:05
george cambosis jr
3:07
um how big is this fight december
3:10
well excuse me how big is this fight for
3:12
you this fight is is is huge this is
3:14
everything for me this is a dream come
3:16
true this would be the the seventh
3:19
undisputed champion uh in history so
3:22
only uh six people up to date has has
3:24
done it so this is uh this is a huge
3:26
accomplishment um
3:28
that uh i look forward to uh on the june
3:31
4th okay now i i saw a post fight
3:33
interview i want to say over your
3:35
victory of
3:36
uh diaz was it uh do we got that clip by
3:39
the way we got that other clip
3:41
when asked about um viewing your fight
3:44
you ain't got that clip george um
3:46
cambodia said that he watched you fight
3:50
and it almost felt like he was saying he
3:52
was there to see if you were worthy of a
3:54
fight with him if you could bring the
3:56
crowd if you could bring that kind of
3:58
that excitement and he watched the fight
4:00
and he said i saw a lot of holes
4:03
in his style i mean he ain't saying
4:05
nothing that he's not supposed to say
4:06
you know what he's going to say devin
4:08
he's the greatest fighter of all time
4:09
and i just know that i can't beat him
4:11
and and i don't even i'm not worthy
4:13
enough to be in the ring with him not
4:14
he's supposed to say that and he's and
4:16
if he may feel like that that's he has
4:18
every you know
4:20
way to feel it he can feel how he want
4:22
but at the end of the day it's different
4:23
when you in there you can say what you
4:25
want to say but when you get in there
4:26
with me it's something totally different
4:27
and that's why every fighter has said
4:29
the same thing they're gonna do this
4:30
they're gonna do that and when they get
4:32
in in the ring with me it'd be something
4:33
totally different so it's easy on the
4:35
outside looking in when you get in the
4:37
ring
4:38
he'll see
4:40
hey thank david thanks for coming to the
4:41
show man he bought the wbc green belt
4:44
with him man i'm touching this right
4:45
here this money right here
4:47
hey man tia fema and all these dudes
4:49
trying to say he wasn't wbc champion
4:50
this man is the champion man look at
4:52
this belt right here man i mean
4:54
with this fight ever took place
4:57
with for this belt if uh lomingchenko
4:59
wasn't at war um i can't say um
5:03
i just know that george cambosos was was
5:06
doing anything that he can to to
5:08
not try to not fight me he was
5:10
choosing any and everybody every reason
5:12
not to fight me but at the end of the
5:14
day of course i never you know wanted
5:16
nothing like a war or nothing like that
5:18
to happen um
5:20
did it work out for me to to get my shot
5:22
yes but did did i expect anything like
5:25
like that to happen of course not and i
5:27
pray for
5:28
all those families that that's that war
5:30
on on both sides both both countries but
5:32
um yeah at the end of the day uh it
5:35
happened how happened and uh
5:37
now i have my shot
5:38
he got a shot devin haney is here to
5:40
open up the phone lines for my boxing
5:42
aficionados 888
5:45
742-3345
5:46
bill let me ask you this man how hard is
5:48
it for you guys being that y'all do
5:50
everything independently like how hard
5:52
is it to make big fights like this well
5:55
um you know you want to believe that
5:57
you want to say that it was hard but
5:59
once we got here this has been a 15-year
6:01
journey yeah you know what i mean and
6:03
and
6:03
now it's all worth it you know for devon
6:05
to be in a fight of this magnitude we
6:07
consider this to be the super bowl of
6:09
the lightweight division sometimes you
6:11
you you uh you want the patriots you
6:14
want the giants but you end up sometimes
6:16
with the the bengals and the rams
6:21
you know so
6:22
but be you know for everyone that loves
6:24
boxing i believe that they'll support
6:26
this fight um we we have a great teams
6:30
on both sides that that made it happen
6:32
it seemed a bit rocky you know what i
6:34
mean but i also want to give a shout out
6:35
to top rank uh lou de bella who's a
6:37
who's a new york native who who's uh
6:40
when i say a super it's a super bowl of
6:41
boxing it's a true cinderella story for
6:43
both devin and us for george cambosos
6:46
and and his dad you know what i mean who
6:48
are counted out as well lou de bella has
6:50
made it resurgence we we
6:52
and also top rank and it's going to be
6:54
on espn so it was just uh everyone came
6:57
together to make this thing happen and
6:59
uh it's it's what we say hum dooley lies
7:01
it's just it's by god's grace
7:04
question for the abilities and um
7:07
how hard was it to stay independent far
7:09
as not signing into top rank not signing
7:12
to the zone not stop signing to al
7:14
haymon and all the rest of these guys
7:15
you guys do partnerships with people not
7:17
being actually scientific how hard was
7:20
that decision making well it was the
7:22
decision that we wanted to do was when
7:23
it came time for devon to make a legacy
7:25
defining fight that we were in it you
7:27
know that if we
7:28
devin would break down the barrier of
7:30
sides of the streets so i think that
7:32
he's done done a great job in his
7:34
decision making um yes it just it it
7:37
wasn't about necessarily being
7:39
independent but it was about being able
7:40
to work with everybody you know and so
7:42
we you know we we choose to work with
7:44
everybody to make the the best fights
7:46
happen and i think
7:48
being independent
7:49
allowed us to do that
7:51
did you did you ever have a chance to
7:52
sign with floyd
7:54
um yeah i mean
7:55
nothing in writing but floyd was
7:58
definitely interested in signing me he's
8:00
told me on this on multiple occasions um
8:03
you know i spent a lot of time with
8:04
floyd as well but um you know everything
8:07
happens for a reason and uh here we are
8:09
now here we are devin haney is hanging
8:11
out with us 888 742-3345
8:15
you know i it's a lot of people who've
8:18
had your name in their mouths and you
8:21
know i've seen you respond to a few of
8:22
them
8:23
and i want to see what you think of them
8:25
today like during the pandemic everybody
8:27
was talking man people coming out
8:29
everybody has something to say man like
8:31
and you seem to be an easy target even
8:33
ryan garcia who i feel um
8:37
i love watching the kid fight but i
8:39
haven't watched enough i don't feel like
8:40
he's been around long enough
8:42
to really for me to really assess his
8:45
skill set
8:46
what what do you think when you hear
8:47
people like that
8:49
just kind of dismiss your talent and
8:50
your skill set i mean him in particular
8:53
at the end of the day like i said they
8:54
can say what they want to say but when
8:56
it comes to fighting they say everything
8:57
but let's fight no matter who no matter
9:00
who it is anybody that's been around my
9:01
weight class all the guys that's talking
9:04
they say what they want to say but they
9:05
never say that they want to fight and
9:07
if you just you know i'm saying look if
9:09
you read into it you you will see
9:12
anybody that's that that i ever called
9:14
out when it came time for me to fight
9:15
them i stepped up to the plate no matter
9:17
if i had to go overseas no matter if i
9:19
had to get a vaccine no matter if i had
9:21
to take less money no matter no matter
9:24
if i had to go sign with another
9:25
promoter uh another network like who's
9:27
that who's that right
9:30
when you live on the air you got to
9:31
answer the phone
9:32
now that's my cameraman
9:34
i thought
9:36
[Laughter]
9:43
no matter what i had to do to make the
9:44
big fights happen i i i did it i never
9:47
was no no cap none of that what what
9:50
everything that i said i backed up and
9:52
uh you could do your research the proof
9:54
is in the pudding tell a female
9:57
what about tell a female what about him
9:59
he he he did all that ducking and he
10:01
ducked his ass right into a loss
10:08
[Laughter]
10:17
machine right now with a contract send
10:18
it over so bill kept saying you know
10:20
send the contracts over so what i do
10:22
respect about the relationship that
10:23
y'all have i see a lot of fighters um
10:26
angry right now you know you see a lot
10:27
of fighters like terence crawford and
10:29
certain dudes mad at their promoters
10:31
what advice do you do i mean they should
10:33
take a page out your book for us doing
10:35
their own things but what advice do you
10:36
have for future fighters that's coming
10:37
up far as you know sign into promotions
10:40
or do it yourself
10:41
i mean at the end of the day
10:43
all i gotta say is that if i don't
10:46
believe in if if a fighter really want
10:48
to make a fight happen we we the ones
10:49
with the power no matter what promoter
10:51
who we sign to if you really want to
10:53
make a fight happen you can do whatever
10:54
you got to do to to make it happen and
10:57
and that's what i did i don't really
10:58
know everybody else's business as far as
11:00
they problems with a promoter or
11:02
whatever the case may be but if us
11:04
fighters genuinely want to make the
11:06
fight happen we're the one with the
11:07
power
11:08
devin haney is here man uh bill hey one
11:10
more one more how about hire bill haney
11:20
that's a great voice you got over there
11:24
yeah this fight is taking place june 4th
11:27
live on espn from the marvel stadium in
11:29
melbourne australia the lightweight
11:32
division is on the line this is for all
11:35
the belt citizens and i got the person
11:37
i'm putting my bets on right here
11:39
sitting next to me devin haney
11:41
i've never bettered against devin hayden
11:45
if you love that if you bet on me your
11:47
whole uh my whole career you're going to
11:48
be a rich man i promise
11:50
look at me devin
11:51
and i don't and i don't condone yeah i
11:53
mean i don't you know i'm saying i'm a
11:54
muslim but i'm just saying
11:56
you could be a rich man he'll be a rich
11:58
man
11:59
look at me
12:01
i do well for myself
12:03
that's because of you devin
12:06
i've been betting on you your whole
12:07
career
12:08
i'm keeping
12:16
um because you just mentioned being
12:18
muslim does your religion at all ever
12:21
make your job feel compromising
12:24
um like where does boxing stand in the
12:26
world of being a muslim i mean
12:29
allah stands over over everything you
12:31
know without allah i wouldn't be here i
12:33
wouldn't be able to to to do what i'm
12:35
doing he gave me the power to strength
12:36
to to to even be talking to to to you
12:39
guys right now so
12:40
it's always a lot over everything
12:43
so you know i i asked him for to give me
12:46
the strength to to give me the power to
12:48
to give me the energy to what to wake up
12:50
and go hard and
12:51
diet and
12:52
do the things that i can do right
12:55
devin haney is here irma mayweather was
12:57
concerned with manny pacquiao not
12:59
wanting to take tests back in the day uh
13:02
concerned that maybe perhaps he has some
13:03
performance enhancement drugs in this
13:05
system do you how do you concern
13:07
yourself with that with the other boxers
13:09
is that rampant of course of course
13:10
that's like that's huge every fight that
13:12
um that i fight is mandatory for them to
13:16
to do vada testing and that's the
13:18
the highest the highest testing you
13:20
could possibly you could possibly have
13:22
and it's the most expensive and a lot of
13:24
people a lot of fighters don't do it or
13:25
promoters don't like doing it because
13:26
it's because it's it's expensive but i
13:29
think i don't care what it costs at the
13:31
end of the day i want to be on a a fair
13:33
playing field
13:35
i believe in you know i'm saying i'm i'm
13:36
clean as as as you can possibly be and i
13:39
just want to be on an equal playing
13:40
field to where we both clean in you know
13:42
i'm saying we we both go in there equal
13:45
have you fought anyone that you know
13:47
probably um had dirty tests i mean of
13:49
course not that i know of but i'm sure
13:51
that is is guys out there on the come up
13:53
when you know we wasn't doing water but
13:54
as of right now
13:56
it's i'm sure our the system is so hard
13:58
to beat these days that our doubt ain't
14:00
that anybody can can get past it
14:02
right um devin henny's here we got our
14:04
aficionado our citizen listener who's
14:06
also a boxing fanatic at by where
14:08
louisiana he's called every fight
14:10
correctly he called the earls fight
14:12
correctly he calls them correctly we got
14:15
two from louisiana on the line true what
14:16
up rogers
14:18
what up
14:19
what up family what
14:20
give him a bell ring give him a ring
14:22
give him a ring choose here
14:24
all right there you go two
14:25
two i got him
14:27
no no don't take terry d no no don't
14:29
take terry thank you hey true we got we
14:32
got devin haney and bill haney up in
14:34
here too go ahead man for you
14:36
hey i got two i got two questions for
14:38
you devin the first one is
14:40
uh i know ramadan is coming you know
14:42
you're in robin now right now in your
14:44
religion uh have you ever fought during
14:46
that time and how has that affected your
14:48
your process yeah ramadan just i just
14:50
actually ended last night um but yeah
14:53
right right now i'm in i'm in um
14:55
training so i can't pass or nothing like
14:57
that during ramadan but you know i asked
15:00
a lot for you know um the for me for me
15:03
to be able to you know train and do you
15:06
know do my job to where i can earn money
15:08
and provide for my family and stuff like
15:09
that and you know i try to pray uh at
15:12
least five times a day i i mean
15:13
obviously i'm not perfect i'm not here
15:15
to say act like i'm perfect or nothing
15:16
like that because
15:18
i am in training i am you know
15:20
busy but i always try to you know make
15:22
up my prayers and and do as much as i
15:25
can to to give back and do the things
15:27
i'm supposed to be doing during ramadan
15:32
go ahead chew
15:33
no voice right i was gonna actually what
15:35
did you think of shakur's fight
15:38
ah man it's like i told you i thought i
15:41
thought if shakur went for it he would
15:43
have got him out of there but i think he
15:44
was cool with just you know beating him
15:47
up the way he did and
15:49
outlanding them crazy numbers uh but i
15:52
think if he wanted to he could have got
15:54
him out of there okay what did he say in
15:56
the post fight comments
15:59
so that's what i want to ask uh devin i
16:01
got you i got you beating cambosis i was
16:04
gonna ask you i was gonna ask you i said
16:05
i see that you ain't uh he said you
16:07
ain't picked the fight wrong so i was
16:09
gonna ask you your prediction on it
16:12
well well i'll be honest with you so
16:15
i got you beating cam voting i've said
16:18
for years now that shakur beats
16:20
all you guys no disrespect
16:22
um but what do you think about what he
16:24
said afterwards and are we gonna have to
16:26
wait like we did for spence and crawford
16:30
five years or are y'all gonna be able to
16:31
get it done within the next year or two
16:33
yeah um
16:35
what do you say uh
16:37
he said
16:38
he just said that he just said that you
16:40
know he definitely he respects devin but
16:43
he you know he thinks they they're going
16:45
to fight in the future yeah and and i
16:47
definitely agree with that you know we
16:49
we both um
16:51
are guys that's he's at 130 i'm at 135
16:54
he got two belts i'm looking to get the
16:56
four belts i went at 135 so of course
16:58
that's a huge fight to to make in the in
17:01
the future right now i got two fights
17:03
lined up for for all the belts in the
17:05
weight class so it's pr it's hard to
17:06
look past you know
17:08
that when it's the it's the biggest
17:10
achievement in boxing like what how how
17:12
much further and what i'm saying can you
17:14
can you get all right so right now i'm
17:16
getting ready to clean out the division
17:18
and then uh we go from there but like i
17:20
said before i'm not ducking or dodging
17:22
nobody i'm willing to fight whoever
17:24
wherever whenever and uh you know my
17:26
track record has showed and uh so
17:29
when that fight uh gets made it's gonna
17:31
be a huge fight you win shakur for
17:33
definitely
17:34
since camp started and you're fighting
17:36
over in australia
17:38
how many weeks in advance do you go over
17:40
there to get the climate ready and you
17:42
know get you press over there and stuff
17:44
like that yeah so this is my first time
17:45
fighting overseas um obviously so we're
17:48
gonna go out three weeks to get
17:50
acclimated on the time
17:51
the um the weather because i think that
17:53
well
17:54
i think i know that when it's summer
17:56
here it's winter over there so the the
17:59
climate is totally different everything
18:00
is different so we can go three weeks to
18:02
get acclimated and so we don't want to
18:04
be jet lag and all that
18:07
so let's let's let's let's speak ahead i
18:09
know it's hard to speak ahead so i'll do
18:10
it with bill i know bill's been thinking
18:12
ahead because i know your mind is on
18:14
what's coming up
18:15
he cleans out the division the
18:17
lightweight division does he move up or
18:18
does he move down well first i'm going
18:21
to say that uh chu is going to lose his
18:22
money
18:24
in the future
18:27
you heard that shoot true you heard that
18:29
i heard it i tell you no disrespect i
18:32
love i love devin too man i love devin i
18:34
just think between those two i'll i'll
18:37
put my money on shakur and take my
18:39
chance oh listen all respect to uh uh
18:41
shakur and uh his grandfather and and of
18:44
course jay prince who've done an amazing
18:46
job um shakur is actually kind of like a
18:49
god brother to devin i mean they've been
18:51
they've been on the olympic teams
18:53
together or junior national teams youth
18:56
teams um we've you know shakur has came
18:59
and stayed with us for a while and stuff
19:01
like that you know he's he's been very
19:03
helpful when devin was young when devin
19:05
was younger but uh when we started this
19:07
journey uh devin uh you know he said dad
19:10
i want to be the i want to be one of the
19:11
best ever i want to be one of the one of
19:13
the greats all-time greats and uh i
19:16
think that that's that's been our goal
19:18
and uh and and i believe in them
19:20
wholeheartedly you know what i mean
19:21
against anybody and uh you know but that
19:24
that fight with shakur is definitely a
19:26
fight that's uh just in the future but
19:29
just like devin says this is truly the
19:31
super bowl of the lightweight division
19:33
uh there's been no undisputed champ uh
19:36
in the four belt era in the lightweight
19:38
division i believe that the last guy to
19:40
be undisputed was sweet p pinella
19:42
whitaker a true all-time great but he
19:44
had three of the belts so so this within
19:47
itself is something that's so major that
19:49
you can't even look to uh to next year
19:52
you know you look forward to this this
19:54
uh this fight and this fight only i love
19:56
it man we got devin haney bill haney
19:58
they're here we're celebrating june 4th
20:00
live on espn marvel stadium in melbourne
20:03
australia george cambosis jr who i'm a
20:05
fan of i like what he did when he walked
20:08
in and
20:09
took it to teo female oh yeah nobody
20:12
expected that outcome
20:13
at least he's fighting he got the belts
20:15
and he fighting tia female had the belts
20:17
and he was he was happy with him man
20:18
he's running around
20:20
i think devin didn't
20:22
but you guys you predicted that you got
20:23
to hold him accountable because he was
20:25
trying his best to to not fight me by
20:28
any means absolutely the fans demanded
20:30
this fight the fans put the pressure on
20:31
him so we got to thank the fans for it
20:33
him i don't know he was forced into this
20:35
so he didn't want to do it george didn't
20:37
want to do it not not at all i think
20:39
george reached out to devon before the
20:41
fight and through the dm's and they they
20:44
developed a line of communication and
20:46
george actually promised devin that he
20:48
would be once he beat tia female lopez
20:51
then that he was going to fight devin
20:53
you know what i mean you got that you
20:54
got that receipt
20:56
yeah yeah
20:57
show it to horse you ain't going to put
20:58
it back in public let horses let horses
21:02
so so so going into that we were
21:04
actually pulling we were actually
21:05
pulling for george because that's what
21:07
he said but we knew that the fight with
21:08
tia fimo was a bigger money fight yeah
21:10
but with george's promise uh that's why
21:13
we we were we were pulling for george
21:15
then surprisingly
21:17
he said that devon needed to look good
21:20
and also that he was going to make his
21:22
rounds in the lightweight division and
21:23
take a look at tank he was going to take
21:25
a look at lomachenko devon and then he
21:27
would then pick but it was to my
21:29
understanding you being a champion you
21:30
accept the challengers you don't go out
21:33
looking for a challenge you're the
21:34
champion right you know you're picking
21:36
somebody when you should be getting
21:38
picked you know and i think devin was in
21:40
line he was the he was the person that
21:42
fit the bill in terms of making this a
21:44
true undisputed fight devin haney is
21:47
searching his dms right now hey for
21:49
cambodia hey yeah i'm searching you know
21:51
that um
21:52
coming up in this with shaquah and tank
21:54
and all that how familiar were y'all
21:56
with sparring did you borrow both of
21:57
those guys a couple of little guys a
21:58
couple of times i sparred with i sparred
22:00
with tank i sparred with uh shakur i
22:03
sparred with me and me and ryan we just
22:05
fought in amateurs like six times we'd
22:08
inspired um oh floyd floyd a bunch of a
22:12
bunch of guys we didn't we didn't all
22:14
everybody we didn't really been in the
22:16
ring with each other so we we basically
22:18
all knew knew that the guys that was
22:19
going to be at the top like we you kind
22:21
of saw it coming yeah yeah i'm sure i
22:23
know you i've watched you devin's real
22:26
humble uh-huh
22:27
right
22:28
shaw axe bill he's from east oakland
22:31
how did he measure up against floyd put
22:33
a licking on him you know what i mean
22:35
period i know people don't want to
22:36
necessarily hear that but floyd is a
22:38
very competitive individual and i think
22:40
devin kind of you know he's that same
22:42
competitive individual it's like a a
22:45
kobe and a and a jordan relationship you
22:48
know what i'm saying devin didn't go
22:49
easy and i don't think floyd went easy
22:51
on him you know but but we were in the
22:53
ring devin was talking to him and uh
22:56
devin will tell you how he felt but i
22:58
felt amazing and i told floyd i said
23:00
it's like it's like you in the mirror
23:01
floyd you know what i'm saying
23:03
and devin devin said later on that he
23:06
could feel everything that floyd was was
23:08
doing you know and uh
23:10
and and you you'll know that you'll hear
23:12
that i'll say something about the
23:14
sparring about how devin did against
23:16
floyd but you'll never hear no one else
23:18
respond
23:19
because it's true you know what i'm
23:21
saying and i'm i'm proud to say it as in
23:23
being being so floyd won't respond to
23:26
that well no floyd actually told me that
23:28
he that devin put a whooping on an old
23:30
man okay you see what i'm saying and uh
23:32
that's what he said but
23:34
like i said when i was when i saw that
23:35
it was amazing it was it was like a a
23:37
graduation for devin you know what i'm
23:39
saying and and once i seen him do that i
23:42
said oh yeah it's good for anybody
23:44
because floyd is still no slouch he's
23:46
not no slouch and i mean i would go on
23:48
to say that he would beat
23:50
probably 90 of the welterweights today
23:54
today at 40 plus so we learned a lot
23:58
devin learned a lot from him i learned a
24:00
lot from him as far as the business and
24:02
stuff like that he's been a tremendous
24:04
help but to answer your question yeah um
24:06
you know he uh devin handled his
24:08
business i'm gonna come to you devon in
24:10
a second get ready
24:11
um
24:12
you said you learned a lot in business
24:14
what was one of the most
24:16
fundamental things he taught you about
24:18
the business of boxing that when you
24:19
believe in yourself you got to bet on
24:21
yourself uh-huh you know what i mean and
24:23
uh so that that was our whole thing is
24:26
is to put ourselves in position
24:28
that that he didn't in terms of human
24:31
it's a legendary story of him being with
24:33
top rank and then having to buy himself
24:35
out of the deal with todd rank because
24:37
he felt that he wanted could do
24:38
something else um we've never been in a
24:40
deal with someone that we didn't see it
24:43
through i think that being being men of
24:45
of our word once we sign to it we don't
24:48
come back later on and get mad and want
24:49
to restructure the the agreement or
24:52
anything like that so it's very
24:53
important what you sign is what you're
24:55
going to have to stand to you know and
24:57
uh just seeing him go through that you
25:00
know is part of the reason why devin
25:02
started the company you know it's devin
25:04
haney promotions devon is the boss you
25:06
know what i mean and i'm i'm blessed to
25:08
be able to to work for my son and work
25:10
for a company that we built you know
25:12
what i mean so i i i get up every
25:14
morning you know happy as hell i'm sure
25:16
yes i can't wait till my kid
25:21
there you go there you go i'm looking
25:23
forward to that i got to get her in the
25:24
ring i got to get her in the ring
25:26
um
25:27
i can only imagine sparring with floyd
25:29
just forget the who's better thing just
25:33
him being who he is this figure to
25:35
boxing as important has he been and to
25:37
know to get in the ring and see your
25:39
skill set matches you said you could see
25:42
and fill everything you could feel
25:43
everything he was doing walk us through
25:45
that give me an example yeah um
25:47
just being in the in the ring with floyd
25:49
was just a a dream come true for me for
25:51
me you know just to even be able to tell
25:53
this story you know and uh he's he's a
25:56
legend so of course you know it's it was
25:59
a blessing to be in there and uh i don't
26:01
really like to talk too much about the
26:02
sponsor because you know i respect floyd
26:04
and what he's done for
26:06
for the sport
26:07
you know and uh one day i want to be
26:10
mentioned with the great like floyd one
26:12
day so uh i'll let it be what what it is
26:14
i learned a lot from the sparring um did
26:17
he hit too hard or more i mean
26:21
yeah
26:22
what does hard punch feel like at the
26:23
end of the day you know it was good work
26:28
it was good it was good work but that
26:30
that counter right he has did he get the
26:32
sharp [ __ ] his [ __ ] sharp this [ __ ] is
26:34
sharp and i'm sharp two though so okay i
26:37
think floyd gave him the master class
26:38
made him a master boxer now like after
26:40
they box he learned a lot from that and
26:42
he took it to the next step i think that
26:43
uh devin took that to the next step far
26:45
as becoming a master boxer for sure for
26:47
sure i definitely definitely you know
26:49
took tricks that he did and stuff that
26:51
he did and i added into my game and that
26:54
that was the main thing we could talk
26:56
about smart what i did in sparring at
26:57
the end of the day but it's what i
26:59
learned from it and i did learn from it
27:02
and it made me a better fighter and um
27:04
yeah one day one day one day a young kid
27:07
gonna come up and he's gonna talk about
27:09
you know his sperm actually yeah yeah
27:11
that's true that's true it might be
27:12
sooner than you think absolutely
27:15
but but i'ma [ __ ] him up
27:20
you know i i i ain't taking it easy on
27:22
him at all
27:25
exactly
27:26
because i really understand it because i
27:27
remember being being that kid maybe
27:29
because i'm still young but i remember
27:31
being the kid that's that's trying to
27:33
earn like trying to earn a name or you
27:35
know prove my point against anybody that
27:37
that i spark so that's why to this day i
27:39
don't take it easy on nobody alright
27:41
yeah if you're not supposed to be in
27:42
there with me don't get in there you're
27:44
not gonna be in there yeah i swear one
27:46
one time when we met uh
27:48
adrian broner yeah devin was young how
27:51
old were you at the coliseum
27:53
i was about like 13 he was like 13. so i
27:56
said hey b come over come over and meet
27:58
my son right so and so dev said uh so
28:02
abc what's up little champ and then
28:04
devin said he said one day i'm gonna
28:06
whip your ass right
28:08
he said one day i'll whip your ass
28:09
no no devin said one day i'm gonna beat
28:12
you and what did what did adrian broner
28:13
say back i'm gonna [ __ ] you up with
28:17
[Music]
28:24
[Music]
28:28
up and he you'd be serious
28:31
i'm gonna put that fear of you with the
28:33
young age you gonna remember this ass
28:34
flip and i put on you well man
28:36
eventually people gonna want to see you
28:37
knock heads with tank and you said you
28:39
sparked with tank what was that
28:41
experience like sparring with tank did
28:42
he hit hard like
28:44
did you feel his power yeah um it was a
28:47
it was a good experience he of course he
28:49
got power
28:50
but um but you know that's a butt no i
28:53
mean i'm just all-around better fighter
28:55
and i truly believe that and uh the
28:58
sparring session showed you know he's
28:59
not floyd i'll talk about it
29:01
he not floyd i want some money okay he
29:03
said you're talking i want some money
29:05
you bet in the sparring in the sparring
29:07
you bet that shout out shout out adrian
29:09
broner's dad and uh coach levi they paid
29:12
they paid up so you know what you know
29:14
it was clear so because they won't pay
29:16
if it ain't clear no it ain't clear it's
29:17
dog house rules
29:19
i want some money so you sparred with
29:21
tank
29:22
and bill won money because you got the
29:24
better tank yeah yeah
29:26
that time but but in all fairness to
29:28
tank because he's a hell of a fighter
29:30
you know what i mean and uh and we had a
29:32
gym called the hit factory you know i
29:34
opened it up dev was about nine or ten
29:36
years old because i wanted to keep him
29:38
inspired and keep him away from and off
29:40
the streets and away from kids that
29:42
weren't weren't
29:44
on the same path as him and uh we ended
29:47
up closing the gym after devin decided
29:50
to that he we were going to go pro right
29:52
and uh i would knock on everyone's door
29:54
we go we went up to upton gym in
29:57
baltimore you know when seeing shakur in
29:59
new york in newark uh came here to new
30:01
york over here you know with zab and his
30:03
dad and stuff like that you know and uh
30:07
when he sparred him in uh
30:10
in baltimore right
30:13
i said okay he i said okay we got enough
30:16
we didn't see what we need to see we see
30:18
what we want to work on you know and
30:20
then
30:20
um fast forward to las vegas before uh
30:24
adrian broner's fight
30:26
uh we're in the car with floyd
30:28
and the car and devon and floyd are in
30:29
the in the front seat and and and i'm in
30:32
the back seat of the rolls and we we
30:34
think that we're enjoying ourselves
30:35
having a good time you know what i'm
30:37
saying and floyd looks over at dev he
30:39
say you you want to work
30:41
and deb's i always want to work right so
30:43
he gets on the phone he said hey b where
30:45
where's your man at where's your man he
30:47
said i got my guy right here right and
30:50
then he said he looked over there he
30:52
said you know who tank is
30:54
i'm in the back sander
30:57
i said
30:58
he said deficit y'all know tank is he
31:00
said okay we're gonna get that work
31:02
floyd pulls over says kitty
31:04
call everybody tell me to come to the
31:06
gym call everybody call everybody the
31:08
gym was packed
31:10
now the one thing that's different with
31:11
the doghouse is that you go
31:14
until you stop
31:16
this
31:17
it's with floyd you go until you stop
31:20
and that's just the way that it is right
31:22
and and you know i'm i'm confident and
31:25
deaf you know what i mean i haven't seen
31:26
him and i know what we didn't worked on
31:27
i know how he's developed because i
31:29
think dave might the first time when he
31:31
sparred him was like he was like 14. you
31:33
know he was 14. when he sparked four
31:35
tanks for our tank yeah now this was
31:37
before floyd had met him okay you know
31:40
what i mean so i'm confident and i see
31:42
uh uh adrian braun and him dad and
31:44
everybody the gym is packed and i'm
31:46
talking [ __ ]
31:47
and then and then hey uh abey's dad and
31:50
levi coach levi said what you trying to
31:52
do i pulled that thing out and said you
31:54
know what's happening
32:02
and you know we so we bet you know what
32:04
i mean they were gentlemen they honored
32:06
their bet and that was you know that
32:08
that was a also another pivotal time in
32:10
his career that we knew that that he was
32:12
something because of time what it takes
32:14
yeah because tank ain't no slouch ain't
32:16
nothing slouch about him and and we're
32:18
not we i don't say that to throw no
32:19
shade at him yeah i'm just keep i'm just
32:21
keeping it real you know what i'm saying
32:23
wow
32:24
dude what about
32:26
first of all you got it first right here
32:28
right after he wipes up this division
32:31
you're going to see tank and devin haney
32:33
is that what we're saying there we go uh
32:35
okay there we go uh-oh that's what we're
32:37
saying yes that's what we're saying
32:39
we won't tank next nice okay
32:43
oh that's gonna be interesting
32:46
brian garcia is he easy work
32:49
i mean
32:50
at the end of the day uh i feel like all
32:53
these fighters are easy work for me you
32:54
know i pro if i prepare well for for
32:57
each each and every everybody i don't
32:59
take nobody lightly and i truly believe
33:01
that i'm the best fighter in the world
33:03
so um no matter who it is i will go in
33:05
there and make easy work that's why they
33:06
say to this day i haven't fought nobody
33:08
because i make them all look like that
33:10
and uh come june 4th it won't be nothing
33:12
different
33:13
jeff and hannie
33:14
styles make styles make fights like we
33:16
all like you always hear that's right
33:18
yeah you know what i mean i think that
33:19
that devin has done a great job in terms
33:22
of patterning his style
33:24
of one of the all-time greats in floyd
33:26
uh one one thing that we learned is the
33:29
the the business is hidden and not
33:31
getting hit so you'll last in the sport
33:33
enough to keep performing in front of
33:35
the people and giving them the kind of
33:36
fights against the opponents that they
33:38
want to see you in so i think that when
33:40
he's saying that everyone is easy work
33:42
based on the style that he has he
33:44
matches up well against anyone
33:47
universal style
33:48
it's just like like he says just hit and
33:50
not get hit and that's why i will
33:52
continue to to to make these fighters
33:54
look like they aren't nothing because
33:57
i don't get hit hey dev do you think
33:59
it's the lights i think that these guys
34:00
they they want to get in the ring with
34:02
you until the pay-per-view lights
34:03
actually hit up on the ring and i think
34:05
that everything is changing
34:06
relationships think it's the lights it's
34:08
it's it's hard to to
34:10
get hit by somebody and you can't hit
34:12
them that's the worst that's the worst
34:14
no matter how hard you if somebody hits
34:16
hard and you can hit them too it's like
34:19
i'll give you one you give me one but
34:21
when you when they keep hitting you and
34:22
you can't hit them
34:24
that [ __ ] [ __ ] them up psychologically
34:26
how many of the fights that you had that
34:28
the guys actually stuck to the game
34:29
playing like you knew he was going to do
34:31
that or and how many fights did you have
34:32
to make proper adjustments like you know
34:34
what let me make a few adjustments
34:35
because uh um
34:37
honestly like me and my dad we prepare
34:39
for these guys so well that like we we
34:42
like tend to know like what they're
34:43
gonna do when you when you're studying
34:44
them a lot of these fighters they they
34:46
do the same thing over and over and over
34:47
again they they do the same habits they
34:49
so we're going into a fight we know
34:51
exactly like all right this is what
34:53
they're gonna do if they do this you do
34:55
this if they do that you do that so
34:57
nine times out of ten it's really no
34:58
surprise we be knowing and i don't want
35:00
to sound like like like we just like
35:02
like it's awesome but this is it's
35:04
reality when you really study somebody
35:06
even it's whether it's basketball
35:07
football whether it's you know they run
35:09
the same route to whatever the case may
35:10
be it's the same thing with boxing
35:13
they tend to do the same thing they tend
35:15
to have the same habits yeah yeah
35:16
definitely tracy you get the last
35:18
question real quick they got to cut out
35:19
okay no problem dev is there anything
35:21
out of the ordinary when it comes to
35:23
your training that really helps you to
35:24
be explosive execution because there are
35:26
some of like the most barbaric of
35:28
athletes where maybe ballet helps them
35:31
yeah or like doing puzzles helps them
35:34
um i can't say i can't really say like
35:37
nothing crazy like that like out of the
35:39
ordinary i'm a like a true boxer so i
35:41
study the great so the the type of
35:43
training that i do is like you know
35:45
strictly like just like catering to to
35:47
boxing for real so i can't really say um
35:50
no and out of the ordinary you don't i
35:52
stick to the to to the old school like
35:55
game planner of it what's your go to
35:57
what's your go-to fight you like to look
35:59
at to get a little pointless from
36:01
um you know what's crazy i like going
36:03
into a fight i try not to like watch too
36:05
many different fighters because i feel
36:06
like he like [ __ ] my brain up a little
36:08
bit like i'd be like
36:10
like i i don't know it like gets me
36:12
confused because like i said we we go in
36:14
with a game plan so i try to just like
36:17
watch the fighter that i'm fighting and
36:19
uh like watch the stuff that like my
36:21
sparrow matches and the stuff that i
36:23
need to do to work on rather than watch
36:25
like other fighters because it just i
36:27
don't know it
36:28
gets me kind of confused man i can't
36:30
wait for this fight citizens saturday
36:32
june 4th live on the espn the marvel
36:35
stadium melbourne australia
36:37
george cambosis jr for all four major
36:40
world titles in the lightweight division
36:43
versus the one and only the legendary
36:46
devin haney what are you like 24 dude
36:49
23. 23. bossed up boston same age
36:58
don't be looking at my ig devin
37:01
no honestly you guys got an amazing
37:03
family you can go go for it um
37:06
proud of you i'm proud of you man you
37:09
stayed that course yes sir and you your
37:11
revolution what you're a revolution
37:13
walking you showing the the new way that
37:15
boxers are taking command of their
37:17
careers their likeness their
37:19
intellectual property everything's
37:21
coming back to you i remember you having
37:23
that conversation with t or fimo and
37:25
y'all was talking about how much y'all
37:27
made off the bill and you was explaining
37:29
to him i know how much you made i got
37:31
the door oh yeah that's different money
37:33
for sure for sure and that was that was
37:34
that was a loan that was a long long
37:36
time ago but
37:38
at the end of the day
37:39
with this this fight is just something
37:41
different like i want to win more i want
37:43
this fight i want to win
37:45
more than i want the money
37:47
you know
37:48
greatness i may i made i made a lot of
37:50
money before it was i'm gonna make a lot
37:52
of money in in the future but right now
37:54
i want to win more than when i want the
37:56
money so they're talking too much about
37:58
you they're doubting you they're denying
38:00
you and yet you still undefeated yet
38:02
you're still a champion and so they'll
38:04
see what you already know devin haney i
38:06
want to thank you and bill for coming by
38:08
today bill real quick i got that thing
38:10
in my pocket
38:11
earl spence or terence crawford
38:15
keep it in your pocket
38:20
you don't want to bet on that one hey
38:21
that's that's uh that's that's one that
38:24
the fans will truly enjoy there you go i
38:26
don't think that's uh
38:27
i don't think
38:28
i don't think that's one to bet on i
38:30
think that you should just don't stress
38:32
it sit back and enjoy something that's
38:34
going to be truly special those guys uh
38:36
they deserve it they deserve to be in
38:38
that big fight they both uh did a lot on
38:40
each side you know what i mean and and
38:42
and i i just hope that
38:44
it happens there you go bridge business
38:47
horses breaks business thank you all for
38:48
coming man i really appreciate that
38:50
ain't one of my favorite fighters
38:51
actually he's probably the smartest
38:53
youngest fighter i i ever seen like i
38:55
think at that edge floyd wasn't a boss
38:58
like this at 24. i don't think nobody
39:00
three
39:00
i don't know if he's the boss i don't
39:02
know if he was mayweather like that like
39:03
he was with his devin hanging promotions
39:04
but congratulations to this father and
39:06
son thing that y'all got going on man i
39:08
really love this man because most of the
39:09
time it really don't work when the bag
39:11
get when the money get involved but i
39:12
really like what you're doing man and
39:13
keep that greatness going and thank you
39:15
i i just want to inspire the young guys
39:17
and and even though the older guys you
39:19
know that
39:21
that you could do it all you got to do
39:22
is better yourself and if you want to
39:24
make the big fights happen it's we got
39:26
the power us fighters got the power to
39:28
to
39:29
to get these big fights happening and
39:32
all the other side of the street [ __ ]
39:33
that [ __ ] is out the door devin haney
39:35
stopped it devin haney put a stop to it
39:36
and uh do it to death anyway there you
39:39
go man all right
#Arts & Entertainment