By Sean Jones: Devin Haney is starting to lose persistence with four-belt light-weight champion George Kambosos Jr. attributable to him taking his time agreeing to the contract supply from his promoters for a June 4th battle in Australia.
Haney, 23, desires Kambosos to signal for the battle already so he can start getting ready for a battle that he and his promoter Eddie Hearn imagine will flip him into an in a single day famous person.
WBC 135-lb champion Haney (27-0, 15 KOs) is aware of he’s able of energy to get the battle with the 28-year-old Kambosos as a result of Australian’s unique alternative for his June 4th battle, Vasyl Lomachenko, is at house in Ukraine defending his nation in response to the Russian invasion.
Kambosos is reportedly ready to seek out out from the previous three-division world champion Lomachenko (16-2, 11 KOs) and his promoters at Prime Rank if he’ll have the ability to return to face him on June 4th in Melbourne, Australia.
With the state of affairs wanting bleak by way of the Russian-Ukrainian struggle coming to a fast finish, it’s not wanting optimistic that Lomachenko will have the ability to take the battle with Kambosos in June.
“Workforce Kambosos has had the supply for fairly a while now. Why the chilly ft unexpectedly?” mentioned Haney on Twitter this week.
Apparently, Kambosos uncharacteristically failed to answer this Tweet from Haney, which tells you all you could learn about his lack of want to take this battle.
If you happen to’re Haney, you could see what time it’s and acknowledge that there’s no job supply for him right here and transfer on already. Kambosos is ignoring Haney.
Have a look at it this fashion. If that very same Tweet got here from Vasyl Lomachenko or Ryan Garcia, Kambosos would have fired again instantly, letting them know to carry their horses and be affected person.
You may’t blame Kambosos Jr for taking his time mulling over the supply from Workforce Haney as a result of it’s a horrible battle for him on paper.
Haney is a purely defensive fighter, who can be jabbing, transferring, and holding all evening lengthy towards Kambosos, stopping him from touchdown greater than a trickle of his greatest pictures.
The sneaky proper hand that Kambosos dropped Teofimo Lopez with within the first spherical of their battle final November received’t be there for him towards a defensive wizard like Haney.
At greatest, Kambosos will land occasional jabs and can be restricted to nailing Haney with punches within the many clinches.
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— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) March 12, 2022
Kambosos and his promoter Lou DiBella could be higher off taking an interim battle towards a fringe contender whereas they await the image to change into clearer on the Lomachenko battle.
An amazing backup possibility for Kambosos and DiBella could be to defend towards Ryan Garcia, supplied he wins his April ninth comeback battle Emmanuel Tagoe on the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
If Ryan wins that battle, Kambosos ought to face him in the summertime in Australia, contemplating it will be a large contest that will entice a whole lot of new subscribers on DAZN.
Within the meantime, Kambosos ought to take a stay-busy interim match on June 4th towards one in all these contenders:
Chris Colbert – *130-lb contender
Maxi Hughes
Richard Commey
Yvan Mendy
Javier Fortuna
Masayoshi Nakatani
Francesco Patera
Shuichiro Yoshino
Sean Jones wouldn’t thoughts seeing Kambosos and Colbert combine it up on June 4th. That may be a enjoyable battle to see the blue-haired Colbert attempting to outbox Kambosos together with his blazing quick hand velocity.
