Post Regis Prograis’ Victory, Devin Haney Hints at a Potential Showdown

Regis Prograis has just snatched a winding split decision over his late replacement, Danielito Zorrilla, on Saturday night in front of a crowd of 6,319. Prograis is one of the top players in his division and is the current World Super Lightweight champion. The 34-year-old boxer tried to cut in the distance throughout the fight and was eager to land a game-changing punch, but the motivation on Zorrilla’s end was on a declining note. And the boxers, collectively, had boos being chanted at them in the later rounds, as the Smoothie King Center wasn’t getting the jam-packed action fight that they were expecting from these fighters.

Well, Prograis currently holds the WBC junior Welterweight title, and had confessed that Zorilla proved to be a tougher opponent than he expected and that he has to go back to the gym to work on a lot of things. The Puerto Rican boxer showed interest in taking on Devin Haney as his next opponent. Besides Haney, his next potential bout could be for the unification of the junior Welterweight title against the IBF champion, Subriel Matías.

However, Prograis’ promoter Eddie Hearn is interested in picking a fight with Devin Haney next. In the recent presser post the Zorrilla fight, he even revealed details of a personal text that Haney had sent him regarding the potential bout.

Eddie Hearn receives a personal text from Devin Haney

In the press conference, Prograis spoke about his learnings from the consequential victory. Hearn received a notification on his phone and started smiling. He declared, “I just got a message from Devin Haney.” This grabbed everyone’s attention in the room.

The British promoter then revealed that he had asked Haney if he could show his text to everybody at the event. Well, Haney approved of that, and Hearn showed Haney’s selfie, with a large grin on his face. Hearn said, “He’s happy, he’s ready.” This gave away a subtle hint of him wanting to take on Prograis as his next opponent.

Currently, Devin Haney is the man of the division, as he is the World Champion of the Lightweight division, and every boxer in that division is allured by the opportunity of going against him. And that’s what Prograis did as well, he wasn’t fazed by Haney’s direct challenge.

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Instead, he stated, “Alright great cool, that’s good. Hopefully that could be the next fight, me and Devin Haney.” Hearn also believes that Prograis would be a good match-up for Haney as he considers him to be “the best 140-pounder in the world”.

Rougarou understands that it’d be a big jump from facing Zorrilla to fighting the World Lightweight champion. But he believes he’s ready for that fight. What do you think about Prograis’s determination? Let us know in the comments section.

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