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

REMATCHES in boxing are inclined to take place for all method of factors, with some a lot more respectable and worthy than others. There will, for starters, be the rematch that is triggered by the shut character of a 1st battle, or in some circumstances the controversial nature of a initially struggle. There will also be the rematch as reward for the action followers witnessed involving two fighters in fight range one. Then there will be rematches contracted or, in other phrases, agreed in advance of we have even had a probability to see what takes place when the two boxers share a ring. 

The very last of individuals causes generally arrives into participate in when a winner has been dethroned. It is at that stage they will have determined, regardless of the way in which they had been dethroned, that dented pleasure is as well agonizing a sensation to not at least try out to get back all they have dropped. It is at that level a rematch clause is activated and a rematch, no matter if it’s necessary or not, requires location.

This, on the encounter of it, would show up the inspiration for lightweights Devin Haney and George Kambosos renewing acquaintances this Sunday (Oct 16) in Melbourne, Australia, just 4 months following their 1st encounter. For it can be for no other rationale. Their to start with battle, after all, was neither near nor especially thrilling and, moreover, no person who watched the to start with fight will have been calling to see a repeat of it whenever soon.

It is simply simply because of a contractual obligation, for that reason, that Kambosos, the former light-weight winner whose reign was short, is granted a next go at beating Haney, 28- (15), this weekend in his household country. For him, and only him, the fight would make complete perception and is a person he must acquire, if just to restore his pleasure. It is also a struggle he will have by now convinced himself he can acquire, regardless of his incapacity to do significantly with Haney first time all-around, and a single he has explained to himself he wants in purchase to suitable all the items he got erroneous again in June.

Which is just the frame of mind of a fighter, of system, and Kambosos, 20-1 (10), is undoubtedly a single of these. He speaks like a fighter, he moves like a fighter, and he behaves a fighter. In fact, lots of argued ahead of his June struggle with Haney that Kambosos’ incapacity to continue being relaxed and detached in the heat of struggle – that is, his lack of ability to prevent operating and pondering like a fighter – would finally lead to his downfall from the much more by natural means gifted and composed American. It confirmed throughout, too, with Kambosos wound up and extremely psychological heading into the struggle and then, throughout the fight, crippled by the variety of panic and desperation felt only by those people seeking too tough in entrance of their very own admirers.

Haney, in distinction, couldn’t have slash a cooler determine. Not when overcome, not by the Australian group nor Kambosos huffing and puffing, he remained settled and clean at all moments and, although possibly not the most thrilling fight of 2022, the exhibition he place on behind the jab was a single of the greatest any boxer has generated this calendar 12 months. In simple fact, just one could argue the combat was gained on that punch on your own, the need to have for many others minimized both by its quality and the house it granted Haney to go. On top of that, so amped up was his opponent, and so clear-cut was his technique, all it took was a single, double or triple aiding of this jab to discourage him, not unlike the stabbing of a matador’s sword in the presence of a bull.

The query now, as we get ready for the rematch, is this: to what extent was Kambosos’ wrestle due to his personal constraints as a fighter and to what extent was it due to him simply adopting the wrong solution? If Haney’s jabbing clinic exposed his limits, there is arguably no hope for Kambosos, irrespective of how loudly the property lovers cheer and how capable he is of motivating himself. Even so, if Kambosos naively believed the tactic he took to beating Teofimo Lopez in 2021 would be just as helpful towards a absolutely distinct fighter (both of those physically and psychologically), there is probably home for optimism, and for alter, and for a unique Kambosos in combat two.

Only he will know the answer to that query. He will, as regular, communicate a excellent battle in the days top up to it and he will, on struggle evening, resemble the figure of a warrior out for justice anyone who this time appreciates all the answers. But in the conclude, when it comes down to it, when the speaking stops and all we have to go on is factual evidence, it is the remaining jab and composure of Devin Haney that will probable as soon as once more discuss louder than something his eager but constrained Australian opponent can muster more than the study course 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 document, that means a battle from Thailand’s Nawaphon Sor Rungvisai, a pro because 2009 whose report stands at 56-1-1 (46). It’s essential to notice that these 58 bouts all took place in Thailand, of study course, the place the level of competition isn’t generally the strongest, and also that Sor Rungvisai is now 31, so may possibly have seen greater days.

Maloney, way too, is 31, however a single imagines has not received the identical amount of miles on the clock. He has gained a few in a row due to the fact remaining stopped by Naoya Inoue in 2020 and ought to be favoured to make that 4 this weekend.

His brother Andrew, meanwhile, a flyweight, fights Norbelto Jimenez, a 12-12 months professional from the Dominican Republic whose last decline came versus Britain’s Khalid Yafai in 2019. Also on a operate of 3 straight wins, Maloney, 24-2 (16), really should have much too a lot for Jimenez, 31-9-6 (16), and could even try out to pressure a stoppage, which would, need to he obtain it, be his third on the trot.