Tim Bradley wants former two-division world champion Devin Haney to return to Mexico, where he started his professional career in 2015. Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) fought 10 times against low-level opposition in Tijuana, Mexico, before coming to the U.S.
Haney lost to Ryan Garcia by a 12-round majority decision on April 20th, and he looked weak in the chin department. His power was weak as well. Unfortunately, these things won’t change when Devin, 26, returns to Mexico to fight second and third-tier opposition.
Humble Pie In Tijuana?
Bradley fails to note that Haney wants big money for his fights now, as he and his dad, Bill, feel they’ve arrived. They want the bigger paydays from fighting in the U.S. against top-tier opposition. They won’t want to take a dramatic pay cut by fighting in Mexico. I don’t see that as realistic.
Once fighters start making millions from their fights, they don’t want to return to making chump change, like they did when they began their careers. Besides, they punch hard in Mexico, too, and those fighters will target Haney’s glass chin from the jump, looking to exploit what Ryan Garcia exposed.
“Devin Haney, you want to get back? Go back to your roots, bro,” said Tim Bradley on X, giving some pearls of wisdom to the recently beaten Devin Haney. “Go back to where you started. Where did you start? You started in Mexico. Go back and get one of those guys out of there, man.
“Go back there and start there. Get some of that humble pie. Go back to where you started. If you go back to where you started, I’m telling you. You’re coming to come back on top,” said Bradley.
Haney’s chin isn’t strong enough to take big shots from fighters in the sport. Going back to Mexico won’t magically fix that problem. One can only imagine what a Mexican slugger like Oscar Duarte would do to Devin if he got the opportunity to fight him.
If it were that easy for fighters to repair their careers by fighting in Mexico, everyone would do it. That’s not how it works. The only thing Haney will accomplish by returning to Tijuana, Mexico, is padding his resume the way he’d done before.
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