Blair Cobbs says Devin Haney is a “coward,” and he’s worried that if he beat him, he’d have his defeat cleansed from his record somehow. A sparring session between the two fighters surfaced recently, showing Cobbs beating the stuffing out of Haney at times, landing some big shots.
Haney and Cobbs are rumored to be fighting next in December. If this turns out to be true, it would be Haney’s comeback fight and his way of getting his feet wet in the welterweight division. The 25-year-old Haney has outgrown the 140-lb division, and it would be a mistake for him to drain down to the weight class for his next fight.
If Devin is fighting at 60% capacity due to the 20+ lbs of water weight that he must shed, even a tune-up-level fighter could beat him. A second consecutive defeat would result in the mega-paydays Haney has become accustomed to disappearing. Moreover, he’d no longer be on the A-list and given the red-carpet treatment at events. He’d be just another fading contender.
Haney is a fight Cobbs says he’d like to have, but he has doubts whether it will happen. Haney is still sitting on the shelf after the bad experience he had, losing to Ryan Garcia on April 20th. Some fans question whether Haney will ever be the same after the way Ryan pummeled him.
Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) doesn’t like how Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) reacted to his loss to Ryan, crying about it instead of just taking the defeat with a stiff upper lip like a warrior.
Blair says that the Ostarine that Ryan tested positive for didn’t do anything to affect the outcome of the fight. In other words, Haney lost the fight because Ryan was a better fighter, and had his number.
“Everybody saw how you guys acted with the Ryan a** whooping. You could react better taking a loss,” said Blair Cobbs to Fight Hub TV, talking about Devin Haney’s decision to take the legal route following his loss to Ryan Garcia on April 20th.
“Since you wanted to act the way you were, I didn’t start acting like a coward after a loss. I bounced back. You think you could handle someone like me? You remember that a** whooping, right? Come and get it, and I’ll take those pillow hands, and stuff it up your [blank] and show you what it really is, a coward. Do something about it,” said Cobbs.
How Cobbs looked against Adrien Broner last June would be too much for Haney. Cobbs hits too hard and would potshot Haney all night. It might not go the distance.
“There’s been no talks. Honestly, there’s been more talks about a Conor Benn or Ennis than Devin Haney,” said Cobbs to Marko when asked if there’s been negotiations for a fight with Haney. “Either way, it would be great for boxing.
First I got no power now I’m on PEDS. OK
— Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) October 17, 2024
“If I could fight anyone, it would be Ryan Garcia. I can wait, but it would be a fight worth waiting for. I’d take a tune-up and then fight Ryan Garcia. I’d push out a heavy promotion. Once I win that fight, my star status will go up tenfold, twentyfold, and probably a hundredfold.
“Devin would probably be the last fight I’d want because they can’t take a loss. They’ll [Team Haney] will start crying all the way. They can’t take a loss. They’ll reverse it [have loss erased]. They’ll do something. They’re a very unfair group of people that cannot take a loss.
“You’ve gotten this far doing what you’re doing, but when you get to this point, it’s time for you to bow gracefully that you lost and be the champion that you are. You can’t do that. So, all those accolades are fake. Everything that’s happened up until now is false,” said Cobbs about Haney.
Ryan knocked a few chips out of Haney’s self-belief with that three-knockdown, 12-round majority decision, and it doesn’t look good that he’s been sitting inactive all this time without returning to the ring against one of the killers at 140 or 147. Haney could have fought Sandor Martin, Liam Paro, or practically anyone.
“You’re not the true champion because like where was Sugar Ray Leonard when he took a loss? He came back. No, because Ostarine is not something that someone was blood doping would be taking,” said Cobbs when asked if he thinks Haney shouldn’t have made a big deal about Ryan Garcia testing positive for a PED for their fight on April 20th.
Haney had the opportunity to defend his WBA light welterweight title against Sandor Martin but chose not to accept the fight after a low purse bid. He was downgraded from WBC champion to ‘Champion in Recess,’ and he is no longer the 140-lb champ with that organization.
Haney should have taken that fight because it would have given him a chance to get an easy payday and show the fans that he’s come back from his loss to Ryan. His decision to reject the fight and lose his WBC title resulted in a lot of fans thinking he’s lost his self-confidence from his defeat.
“They definitely wouldn’t be taking extremely small dosages of it like it’s going to do something. Most of the time, they have Ostarine in most supplements. The thing is, it’s such low dosages that they don’t even put it on the label. When you’re doing these anti-blood doping kinds of things, they’ll bring up all kinds of stuff, right? That doesn’t mean it’s going to do anything.
“I’ll show you all the supplements I’m taking just to keep my a** alive in training camp. I would wager it that even though they have the highest grade and the best qualities, they would have something like, ‘Yo, I don’t know what that is.’ I did a lot of research to know that Ostarine is a very common thing among supplements in general. A lot of the time, the supplements are tainted with very, very small doses of Ostarine.
“Ostarine is not an enhancement on that level. It’s only an enhancement when it’s in a high dosage, and it’s combined with other things,” said Cobbs.
Whether Ostarine helped Ryan Garcia or not, we’ll never know until he and Devin fight again. A rematch doesn’t promise with Haney’s dad, Bill Haney, giving 48-hour deadlines for drug testing and sounding like he still hasn’t mentally processed the reality of what took place last April. Bill is still acting like he thinks Devin is on top of the world, unbeaten in a true sense, and viewed as #1 at 140.
None of those things are valid anymore. Ryan changed all that with his one-sided win over Haney, and Bill has to understand that his son is viewed as yesterday’s news by fans. It’ll stay that way until Haney proves that he’s not washed up.
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