Haney in damage-control mode after dumb racial remarks

By Scott Shaffer

18/04/2020

Haney in damage-control mode after dumb racial remarks

Devin Haney is in damage-control mode days after his unfortunate racially tinged comments claiming he would never lose to a white boxer," "I’m not racist and I never will be a racist, Haney tweeted. "I just had a very positive conversation with Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the WBC and confirmed to him directly my commitment to be a role model and my absolute rejection of discrimination of any kind." A video clip of Haney is made the rounds where, unfortunately, Haney goes racial. On the clip, widely available on Twitter,on social media in which Haney said, "I'll tell you this, I will never lose to a white boy in my life. I don't care what nobody say. Can't no white boy beat me any day of the week. If I fight a white boy ten times, I'm gonna beat him ten times." The quote echoed what was once said by multi-division champion Bernard Hopkins. As great as Hopkins was, he did lose to three white men, Joe Calzaghe, Sergey Kovalev and Joe Smith.