Bill Haney gatecrashes Conor Benn press conference as Devin Haney fight emerges as possibility Matchroom BoxingDevin Haney\u2019s father and trainer, Bill Haney, gatecrashed Conor Benn\u2019s post-fight press conference on Saturday, fuelling talk a fight between the pair could be in the offing. Benn maintained his undefeated record with a unanimous decision win over American welterweight Peter Dobson at Las Vegas\u2019 Cosmopolitan Hotel. It was his second consecutive fight in the United States as he still does not have a license to fight in his native United Kingdom. The 27-year-old is awaiting the results from the British Boxing Board of Control\u2019s appeal of the lifting of his provisional doping suspension by the National Anti-Doping Panel. Benn insists he is innocent of intentionally doping after testing positive for female fertility drug clomifene in 2022 and the appeal could be heard this month. But while he continues to fight stateside, one of the biggest fighters in the sport could well be gearing up for a fight with \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 in the near future. Haney, 25, is already a former undisputed lightweight world champion and current WBC super-lightweight world champion. A step up to welterweight in the future is inevitable and a fight with Benn could be huge, both in the UK and the US. And those flames were fanned last night when Bill Haney gatecrashed Benn\u2019s post-fight press conference and had a respectful exchange with Benn, before discussing a future fight. \u201cI heard somebody\u2019s looking for us,\u201d Haney began. \u201cCongratulations Conor. It probably wasn\u2019t the performance you would\u2019ve liked, but we know you\u2019re a real player in the game so I wanted to come over here and tell you congratulations.\u201d \u201cI respect you and your family. You guys [Nigel Benn and Conor] are a legend, and, of course, it would be an honor and a pleasure at that time if it presents it. Thank you guys for inviting me.\u201d Devin Haney fight emerges as possibility Benn was respectful back to Haney Sr but the respect between himself and Haney Jr clearly isn\u2019t the same. Devin Haney stoked the flames as he took to X during Benn\u2019s fight to tweet: \u201cLeft that s**t in the needle,\u201d in response to a fan asking where Benn\u2019s power had gone, and referring to Benn\u2019s ongoing drug test dispute. And when it was brought up in his press conference, Benn wasted little time in firing back. \u201cWhat is he talking about, power? He has never had power. My DNA is strong. I am fresh out of my dad. He is just jealous because he has never had none.\u201d \u201cIf he wants to come find out about the power, I am more than happy to show him. He can get it next, he has been very vocal. \u201cHis dad showed a lot of respect. Bill Haney has a lot of class, but he needs to teach his kid some manners. I will deal with him no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bill Haney gatecrashes Conor Benn press conference as Devin Haney fight emerges as possibility Matchroom BoxingDevin Haney\u2019s father and trainer, Bill Haney, gatecrashed Conor Benn\u2019s post-fight press conference on Saturday, fuelling talk a fight between the pair could be in the offing. Benn maintained his undefeated record with a unanimous decision win over American welterweight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}