The BN Preview: Haney must return to Australia to fight Kambosos a second time

REMATCHES in boxing tend to happen for all manner of good reasons, with some extra legitimate and worthy than other folks. There will, for starters, be the rematch that is brought on by the shut nature of a first battle, or in some scenarios the controversial character of a to start with combat. There will also be the rematch as reward for the motion lovers witnessed amongst two fighters in struggle amount just one. Then there will be rematches contracted or, in other phrases, agreed in advance of we have even had a probability to see what happens when the two boxers share a ring. 

The previous of those people explanations normally arrives into perform when a winner has been dethroned. It is at that position they will have resolved, regardless of the way in which they had been dethroned, that dented pleasure is as well unpleasant a sensation to not at the very least attempt to regain all they have missing. It is at that position a rematch clause is activated and a rematch, whether or not it’s necessary or not, usually takes area.

This, on the encounter of it, would seem the inspiration for lightweights Devin Haney and George Kambosos renewing acquaintances this Sunday (Oct 16) in Melbourne, Australia, just 4 months following their very first face. For it can be for no other reason. Their initially combat, after all, was neither near nor notably exciting and, what’s more, no person who watched the first combat will have been calling to see a repeat of it whenever shortly.

It is just mainly because of a contractual obligation, thus, that Kambosos, the former light-weight winner whose reign was brief, is granted a next go at beating Haney, 28- (15), this weekend in his household state. For him, and only him, the battle can make entire perception and is one particular he have to get, if just to restore his satisfaction. It is also a struggle he will have by now convinced himself he can earn, regardless of his incapability to do considerably with Haney first time all around, and a single he has explained to himself he desires in order to correct all the factors he received mistaken again in June.

That is just the mentality of a fighter, of class, and Kambosos, 20-1 (10), is unquestionably just one of people. He speaks like a fighter, he moves like a fighter, and he behaves a fighter. Indeed, quite a few argued ahead of his June struggle with Haney that Kambosos’ incapability to stay tranquil and detached in the warmth of fight – that is, his incapacity to prevent functioning and pondering like a fighter – would in the end lead to his downfall against the additional the natural way gifted and composed American. It confirmed through, as well, with Kambosos wound up and extremely emotional heading into the struggle and then, all through the combat, crippled by the variety of stress and anxiety and desperation felt only by those people attempting as well difficult in front of their own fans.

Haney, in distinction, could not have lower a cooler determine. Not after confused, not by the Australian group nor Kambosos huffing and puffing, he remained settled and smooth at all moments and, whilst maybe not the most thrilling fight of 2022, the exhibition he place on guiding the jab was one particular of the greatest any boxer has made this calendar calendar year. In actuality, just one could argue the combat was gained on that punch on your own, the want for other folks reduced both of those by its high quality and the place it granted Haney to transfer. Also, so amped up was his opponent, and so simple was his tactic, all it took was a single, double or triple encouraging of this jab to deter him, not in contrast to the stabbing of a matador’s sword in the presence of a bull.

The issue now, as we put together for the rematch, is this: to what extent was Kambosos’ wrestle owing to his own limitations as a fighter and to what extent was it due to him merely adopting the erroneous method? If Haney’s jabbing clinic exposed his limitations, there is arguably no hope for Kambosos, irrespective of how loudly the home supporters cheer and how capable he is of motivating himself. Having said that, if Kambosos naively believed the solution he took to beating Teofimo Lopez in 2021 would be just as effective in opposition to a fully different fighter (both equally physically and psychologically), there is maybe room for optimism, and for alter, and for a various Kambosos in fight two.

Only he will know the respond to to that query. He will, as common, converse a excellent battle in the days primary up to it and he will, on combat night time, resemble the figure of a warrior out for justice someone who this time is aware all the responses. However in the end, when it will come down to it, when the conversing stops and all we have to go on is factual proof, it is the still left jab and composure of Devin Haney that will probably once once more converse louder than anything at all his keen but constrained Australian opponent can muster above the system of 12 rounds.

On the Melbourne undercard there are appearances for the Maloney twins, Jason and Andrew, both of whom deal with vastly experienced opponents.

For Jason, a bantamweight with a 24-2 (19) professional report, that usually means a struggle from Thailand’s Nawaphon Sor Rungvisai, a professional since 2009 whose file stands at 56-1-1 (46). It is essential to notice that those people 58 bouts all took location in Thailand, of class, where the level of competition is not generally the strongest, and also that Sor Rungvisai is now 31, so may have noticed far better days.

Maloney, as well, is 31, while one imagines hasn’t got the very same number of miles on the clock. He has gained three in a row considering that getting stopped by Naoya Inoue in 2020 and really should be favoured to make that four this weekend.

His brother Andrew, in the meantime, a flyweight, fights Norbelto Jimenez, a 12-year professional from the Dominican Republic whose very last loss came against Britain’s Khalid Yafai in 2019. Also on a run of three straight wins, Maloney, 24-2 (16), ought to have too significantly for Jimenez, 31-9-6 (16), and could even check out to force a stoppage, which would, really should he achieve it, be his third on the trot.