{"id":190396,"date":"2025-06-17T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190396\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:15:09","slug":"devin-haney-accused-of-ducking-brian-norman-jr-with-preemptive-price-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190396\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney Accused Of Ducking Brian Norman Jr. With Preemptive &#8220;Price&#8221; Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans are roasting Devin Haney on social media for predicting that Brian Norman Jr. will \u201cprice himself out\u201d for a possible fight for his WBO welterweight title. Haney says Norman Jr. is using his name for clout to attract interest in his fight this Thursday night in Tokyo, Japan, against Jin Sasaki.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fans See Haney\u2019s Excuse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People see this as a way for Haney (32-0, 15 KOs) to weasel out of fighting Norman Jr. (27-0, 21 KOs) by coming up with a <strong>preemptive excuse<\/strong> before any attempt at negotiations. It would be a dangerous fight for Devin if he were to take it because Norman Jr. is young at 24, and a big puncher with either hand.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Jr. is not like the shopworn Jose Ramirez that Haney defeated in his much-criticized performance last May at Times Square in New York City. If this were Ryan Garcia, Haney wouldn\u2019t be predicting him pricing himself out as a way to get out of fighting him. He would be pushing for the fight. It shows how different Haney would act if it were a fight that he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Devin should fight Brian Norman Jr. because if he could get his hands on his WBO welterweight title, it would make him a three-division world champion, and it would create more fan interest in the rematch with Kingry. Norman Jr. hits too hard and has a reputation for being dangerous after the way he destroyed his last two opponents, Derrieck Cuevas and Giovani Santillan.<\/p>\n<p>Haney\u2019s comment about Norman Jr. fits in with how he\u2019s behaved since moving up to 140. He\u2019s ignored the potential high-risk fights against Gary Antuanne Russell, Subriel Matias, Liam Paro, and Richardson Hitchins. The two fighters Haney fought at 140 were Ryan Garcia and 36-year-old Regis Prograis. He was the favorite in both of those fights.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchins is trying to fight him next, but it\u2019s doubtful it can happen now that he\u2019s announced that he\u2019s a free agent. To get Haney interested in a fight against Hitchins, it would require a big purse. Hitchins has no fan base and can\u2019t sell tickets. So, without Turki Alalshikh, a fight between them won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He will price himself out tho.. I seen this play before. Using my name to promote his fight<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Realdevinhaney\/status\/1934641410940026990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Devin Haney Accused of Ducking Brian Norman Jr. with Preemptive \u201cPrice\u201d Comments<\/p>\n<p>Last Updated on 06\/16\/2025 \t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans are roasting Devin Haney on social media for predicting that Brian Norman Jr. will \u201cprice himself out\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696062774117614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190396","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=190396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}