Teofimo Lopez says Devin Haney rejected a ‘good offer’ for a fight. 

Lopez defended his WBO Junior Welterweight Belt for the second time, beating Steve Claggett in his last fight. Since then, he has been targeting a fight with Terence Crawford. But Crawford’s desire to face Canelo Alvarez at 168 makes that fight unlikely. Haney and Lopez were linked with a fight. Reports suggested they were in talks. Lopez shut down those claims, calling them false rumors. However, Lopez has now revealed an offer was sent to team Haney, which was rejected. 

“I waited a week for Team Haney to respond and they never did – we offered them a good, reasonable offer of $2.4 million guaranteed and a 55-45 split on pay-per-view at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. You wasted my time. You wasted my time too many times. I had to air it out. I was told to stay radio silent while we were trying to negotiate. But I had to,” Lopez said 

Lopez has also been linked with a fight against Ryan Garcia. Oscar De La Hoya mentioned Lopez as a name for Ryan’s comeback to professional boxing. Garcia is currently serving a year ban after failing VADA tests for Ostarine after his Haney fight. Garcia cannot box professionally until April 2025, giving Lopez plenty of time to take that fight. Since the Haney-Garcia rematch is off for now, Lopez could get his shot. However, Teofimo has not given up on the Crawford fight just yet. 

“Right now, Ryan does not have a fight. He’s in the same kind of predicament I’m in. I’ll call Oscar [De La Hoya] later to see what’s up. Everything has to make sense. It can’t be wishful thinking and let’s just make a fight. We have to give them something to be interested in. I try to play it fair as best as I can as the king of the division at 140 pounds. Crawford, stop being a b***h, yo, and make the fight at 154 pounds. C’mon, take care of this young kid,” Lopez stated

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Eddie offered him $1M….you should know that. Devin been overpaid with no ROI.

— HLD (@HLD____) December 1, 2024

Just an excuse to duck Teo.

— Frankie 🇲🇽🎶🇺🇸 (@frankie_LA_OC) December 1, 2024

It’s a fair offer. No promoter is obligated to pay another fighter why they want. They make an offer and possibly negotiate. Boxers get what they can or they worth but if this is true it’s not a bad offer. Maybe just not want Haney wants. IMO he is going 147

— Bobby Digital (@BobbyDigitalTx) December 1, 2024