Devin Haney going through attraction as Vasyl Lomachenko writes to 4 governing our bodies

May 24, 2023 at 7:19 PM
Devin Haney going through attraction as Vasyl Lomachenko writes to 4 governing our bodies

Vasyl Lomachenko will attraction his controversial factors resolution defeat to Devin Haney and is demanding a rematch for all 4 of the American’s light-weight titles. Former three-division world titleholder Lomachenko took on undisputed light-weight champion Haney on the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday evening.

The 35-year-old challenger seemed to be in with a shot of strolling away from the desert with the belts after a detailed struggle went the complete distance, however he was left bitterly disillusioned when the judges unanimously scored the struggle in Haney’s favour.

But now Lomachenko’s camp has determined to take issues additional, such is their frustration on the end result.

talkSPORT boxing editor, Michael Benson, Tweeted: “Vasyl Lomachenko’s manager Egis Klimas has now sent letters to the WBA, WBC, IBF & WBO insisting that they will appeal the Devin Haney defeat and asking that they are made mandatory for all four of Haney’s lightweight world titles to try and force a rematch.”

Boxing followers could also be enthused by the thought of Haney and Lomachenko going head-to-head within the ring as soon as extra, after such a detailed contest, however that’s not how the 24-year-old a number of belt-holder sees it.

Haney was fast to pour chilly water on his defeated opponent’s claims and likewise revealed that he fined $400,000 {dollars} for pushing the Ukrainian on the weigh-in.

Haney Tweeted: “This guy is a f*****g sore loser. Get this privilege (sic) sore loser out of boxing he makes excuses as he goes! Take your lost (sic) like a man and stop crying.. it was set up for you to win for the 3rd time in your career & you failed! Tell the commission give me my 400k back for that push!”

Lomachenko’s meant attraction is a departure from the extra relaxed method he appeared to take when addressing followers through social media on Tuesday.

Taking to Instagram, he mentioned: “Hi everyone, I’ve received a lot of messages from fans around the world. It’s very, very nice and I’m very happy to read your very, very warm words.

“I simply needed to say an enormous thanks to your assist, [everybody] who got here to Saturday evening and noticed what occurred that evening. But it’s what it’s. It’s life, life is just not cancelled. God bless all of the folks world wide.”

Although his camp said that they would be lodging an appeal at the post-fight press conference on Saturday, Lomachenko had admitted to deliberately taking the final round off – something that may have swung the points decision in Haney’s favour.