Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearns has a brand new IBF gentle welterweight champion, Liam Paro, whom he’s desperate to match towards WBC champ Devin Haney in an Australian unification battle at 140.
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Necessary Challengers and Rehydration Limits
There are 4 obstacles that Hearn would want to beat for his unification imaginative and prescient to grow to be a actuality:
- Haney’s WBC obligatory Sandor Martin
- Paro’s IBF obligatory Richardson Hitchinson
- IBF’s 10-lb rehydration restrict
- Invoice Haney’s want for a big-money PPV battle for Devin.
Haney and Paro’s obligatory will be labored round by both paying a step apart or petitioning the IBF and WBC to permit the unification to take priority. If that fails, a step apart will be paid to Hitchins and Sandor to get them out of the way in which.
A much bigger downside is the IBF’s 10-lb rehydration restrict, which might stop Haney from rehydrating as excessive as he usually does after weighing in.
If Haney has to withhold fluids in a single day after weighing in for a battle towards Paro, that might probably be a killer, as he rehydrates into the mid-160s for his fights at 140.
I don’t assume it’s bodily potential for Haney to maintain his weight at 150 or under on a fight-date weight examine. If he might by some means do it, he can be drained and susceptible towards Paro.
With the wrestling fashion that the southpaw Paro makes use of, a weight-drained Haney can be at his mercy. If Haney is a strolling zombie from the IBF’s 10-lb rehydration restrict, Paro will put on him out together with his holding and wrestling.
Monetary Considerations and Market Attraction
The ultimate straw that might stop a Haney-Paro unification battle is Invoice Haney, who desires his son, Devin, to be concerned in PPV fights that promote.
A battle between Haney and Paro can be an utter catastrophe for DAZN PPV as a result of it’s not sellable to U.S boxing followers who’ve by no means heard of Paro. It could bomb badly on pay-per-view and harm Haney’s negotiating energy for fights towards Gervonta Davis, Teofimo Lopez, Isaac Cruz, or a rematch with Ryan Garcia.
The Australian Paro (25-0, 15 KOs) unseated IBF 140-lb champion Surbriel Matias (20-2, 20 KOs) by a large twelve-round unanimous choice final Saturday night time on the Coliseo Juan Aubín Cruz Abreu in Manati, Puerto Rico.
Paro, 28, wasn’t anticipated to win, however he took the John ‘The Quietman’ Ruiz strategy to the battle by punching and tying up Matias all night time to win a surprisingly simple unanimous choice.
Paro’s extreme holding throughout the whole battle with Matias made it unwatchable, and plenty of followers on social media stated they turned it off and targeted on watching the extra attention-grabbing battle proven on PBC on Prime Video PPV.
