{"id":156589,"date":"2025-06-04T04:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156589\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:42:10","slug":"devin-haney-teofimo-lopez-talks-collapse-for-aug-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156589\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney-Teofimo Lopez talks collapse for Aug. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Haney and <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/teofimo-lopez-399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a> were discussing an Aug. 16 fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but negotiations have now collapsed, <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">The Ring <\/a>has learned. <\/p>\n<p>The 145-pound catchweight matchup would have featured two of the sport\u2019s youngest stars in a fight that has been brewing for years. <\/p>\n<p>Haney and Lopez scored comprehensive decision victories on The Ring\u2019s May 2 show in Times Square. <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/devin-haney-beats-jose-ramirez-times-square-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">Haney defeated former champion Jose Ramirez <\/a>while <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/teofimo-lopez-arnold-barboza-result-times-square-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) retained his Ring junior welterweight championship <\/a>with an impressive victory over Arnold Barboza Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking forward to making this fight with Teo, it\u2019s been in the works for a while now,\u201d Haney (32-0, 15 KOs) told The Ring on Tuesday. \u201cI thought this was the best time to make it happen. I did my part. We waited for days for Teo to sign his part of the contract and he came out and said this isn\u2019t a fight he wants to make. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still willing to make the biggest and best fights. I\u2019m looking forward to working with His Excellency, Riyadh Season and The Ring on the best possible opponent. Teo is a f&#8212;-ng duck. No promoter should work with Teo because he wasted everybody\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez\u2019s team declined comment. <\/p>\n<p>Haney, 26, is the former undisputed lightweight champion and WBC titleholder at 140 pounds. The fight against Ramirez was contested at 144 pounds, Haney\u2019s first welterweight bout. <\/p>\n<p>Lopez, 27, is also the former undisputed lightweight champion and holds the WBO and Ring championships at 140. Both fighters scored career-best victories via decisions over future Hall of Famer Vasiliy Lomachenko. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Coppinger is The Ring\u2019s senior insider. He formerly was ESPN\u2019s boxing insider. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikecoppinger?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">X\/<\/a>I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikecoppinger\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">nstagram<\/a>: @MikeCoppinger<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez were discussing an Aug. 16 fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but negotiations have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-156589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114623266479864055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}