Bill Haney says Haney camp offered Shakur Stevenson 147 and 145 but 'got no concessions'
Devin Haney's father and trainer said Stevenson "don't have a fight" as his son prepares to face Liam Paro in a welterweight unification on 19 December.
Bill Haney, Devin Haney's father and trainer, says the Haney camp offered Shakur Stevenson the fight at both 147lb and 145lb and "got no concessions" in return.
Asked what had happened with the Stevenson fight while speaking to reporters at the Haney v Paro launch in San Francisco, he said: "Shakur who? ... So why are you bringing up Shakur? You drug Shakur and Devin all through the motherf***ing mud for over a year. He don't have a fight."
Asked about the talks, he said: "You got to ask those people why the... why it didn't happen. We made the fight offered at 47 to him. We offered the fight at 45. We got no concessions. We got nothing else. But you see who got the date. Devin Haney versus Liam Paro, December 19th."
Stevenson's manager, J Prince, has said that his side "agreed at 45", that the Haney camp then wanted 147, and that Bill Haney "figured out a way to stop it". Bill Haney has written on Instagram that "145 was a concession we made that wasn't returned".
Haney, the WBO welterweight champion, faces IBF champion Liam Paro in a unification fight on Saturday 19 December at Chase Center in San Francisco, live on DAZN, with the broadcast starting at 1am UK time on Sunday 20 December.
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