Jorge Linares: “Devin Haney made a big mistake by accepting a challenge he is not ready to overcome”

Jorge Linares: “I feel stronger and better than ever”

Multiple former world champion, Jorge Linares, is grimly determined to show in no uncertain terms that he`s still the elite lightweight.

Linares will challenge the lightweight champion of the World Boxing Council, the North American Devin Haney, on May 29 on a card that will be broadcast by DAZN from the Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.

How pleased were you to discover this fight had been made?

“This is my moment to show the world that I still have so much more to give at 135 pounds. Devin Haney is a talented and fast young man. But when I was his age, I had already become a world champion by taking the featherweight title from a great champion like Oscar Larios. Now I have much more experience and I feel stronger and better than ever.”

Devin Haney has acknowledged you are the best fighter he has ever faced , do you believe he has made a mistake in agreeing to fight you?

“It will certainly be a tremendous fight, but I will show that Haney made a big mistake by accepting a challenge that he is not yet ready to overcome.”

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