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Top Heavyweight Claims Gervonta Davis Couldn't Touch Devin Haney In Fight

One top heavyweight boxer thinks Devin Haney would thoroughly outclass Gervonta Davis and other boxers at that weight.
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Gervonta "Tank" Davis during a June 15, 2024 fight against Frank Martin.
Gervonta "Tank" Davis during a June 15, 2024 fight against Frank Martin. | IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire

Boxing fans have a right to feel upset about the outcomes of what was supposed to be an extremely entertaining past weekend of fights that included some of the sport's biggest superstars.

But now looking back on the weekend, none of the fights that took place at Times Square on May 2, nor the fight between Canelo Alvarez and William Scull on May 3, delivered on the excitement that fans were forecasting.

One of the bouts that received the most criticism was Devin Haney's Times Square fight against Jose Ramirez. Haney thoroughly dominated Ramirez in the contest, winning 119-109, 119-109, and 118-110 on the scorecards in a bout that saw a historically low volume of punches thrown.

However, not everybody in the boxing world is upset about what Haney did on Friday. Top heavyweight and two-time title challenger Derek Chisora was impressed with the performance, which he conveyed in a May 5 interview with YSM Sports Media.

"That's what you call boxing," Chisora said of Haney. "If he boxes like that, he's gonna be undisputed again. He boxed very well, he won every round apart from one. But he had it in the bag, bro. He's back now. He's just gonna get better and better and better now."

When asked whether this version of Haney beats Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia, and Gervonta Davis, Chisora said, "Yes. But they will be harder fights. Right now, nobody is going to touch him. He's going to get better and better."

Haney clearly has a fan in Chisora.

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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.