Boxing Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Devin Haney flips into the top five with virtuoso performance
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Haney has all the makings of one of the best of his era, and he's taking on the challenges needed to reach that feat
If there were still any lingering questions about just how good former undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney is, boy did the 25-year-old rising star send definitive statement to his critics last Saturday.
In his debut at 140 pounds, Haney headlined a pay-per-view card in his home city of San Francisco, sold out the Chase Center with more than 16,000 strong, and delivered nothing short of a virtuoso performance in shutting out WBC junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis.
Haney didn't just dominate by the normal metrics of outlanding his foe or maintaining distance so perfectly that he made the hard-hitting Prograis look like an amateur who was out of his depth. Yes, there was plenty of that. In fact, Haney set a new CompuBox record for a 12-round fight by limiting Prograis to just 36 total punches landed, in all.