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Oscar De La Hoya Blasts Devin Haney With Diddy Diss After Teofimo Lopez Fight Failure

Oscar De La Hoya called Devin Haney out in a hilarious way after his Teofimo Lopez fight fell through.
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Jan. 25, 2024; Phoenix, Ariz; USA; Oscar De La Hoya speaks about boxer Jamie Munguia (center) about the Munguia v Ryder main event during a press conference for Golden Boy boxing event.
Jan. 25, 2024; Phoenix, Ariz; USA; Oscar De La Hoya speaks about boxer Jamie Munguia (center) about the Munguia v Ryder main event during a press conference for Golden Boy boxing event. | Patrick Breen/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK

In the evening of June 2, news broke that a fight between boxing superstars Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez was all set to take place on August 16 in Saudi Arabia, which is the same day as the Gervonta "Tank" Davis and Lamont Roach rematch.

This fight announcement caught many fans by surprise for several reasons. One is that Teofimo Lopez didn't seem to be in good standing with Turki Alalshikh just a few days ago, after Lopez embarked on a social media rant about Alalshikh, who is the Chairman of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority. However, Turki seemed to put these differences with Teofimo aside and allowed this long-awaited fight to finally happen.

But that came crashing down later on in the day, as Mike Coppinger of Ring Magazine has now reported via X that, "Negotiations have collapsed for a proposed fight between Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez on Aug. 16 in Riyadh, @ringmagazine has learned. Haney and Teofimo both scored wide-decision wins on May 2 in Times Square."

In the wake of this, Devin Haney has sent out several X posts detailing what exactly went wrong with these fight negotiations.

"the fight with Teo is not signed! I signed my part & Teo has been stalling. As of today he has decided he doesn’t wanna fight me he is officially the biggest 🦆👎🍅," Haney wrote, implying that Lopez was ducking this fight from him.

And this prompted a response from the legendary Oscar De La Hoya, who put Haney on blast with an X post that wrote, "Devin Haney is calling Teo a duck??? More like Teo is SMART to not fight a runner who has less fans than Diddy does."

Reading between the lines, De La Hoya is most likely not happy about Haney's team moving on from a potential super-fight rematch with Ryan Garcia (who De La Hoya promotes). Haney and Garcia were reportedly going to fight later this year before Garcia lost to Rolly Romero during the May 2 Times Square card.

Now it seems that not only is the Haney vs. Garcia rematch not happening, but Haney vs. Lopez is on the rocks as well.

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Grant Young is a Staff Writer for On SI’s Boxing, New York Mets, Indiana Fever, and Women’s Fastbreak sites. Before joining SI in 2024, he wrote for various boxing and sports verticals such as FanBuzz and NY Fights. Young has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis on sports nonfiction from the University of San Francisco, where he played five seasons of Division 1 baseball. He fought Muay Thai professionally in Thailand in 2023, loves a good essay, and is driven crazy trying to handle a pitpull puppy named Aura. Young lives in San Diego and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.