^^ And according to that article, Haney will just received $1.5 million? That is a far cry from what he got from the Ryan fight, I don't have the numbers but it could be easy $10 million. So and with the mental damage that Garcia gave him, and now getting a measly just 10% of his previous earnings, perhaps that is the reason why he wanted to rest and so requesting the corrupt WBC and obviously they gave in because of the pressure.
So we need to update this thread to Puello vs Martin and I still think that Puello might be the slight favorite going into that fight. Just to bad for Haney to act like this, I mean he doesn't want to defend his belt as he is mandated. But then forced the WBC to declared him champion in recess.
$10 million is possible but even if it is lower than that amount it should be at least $5 million. So somehow it makes sense to just rest after being physically and mentally destroyed by Ryan in exchange for the multi million dollars he received.
The WBC is always going for the money first. It already said that it is open to help Ryan Garcia which means Ryan might be able to fight outside New York and the WBC is still willing to sanction and rank him up in case he wins While at the same time putting Haney as a champion in recess.
I hope Sandor wins the belt. The guy was supposed to win over Teofimo and was always deprived of a title shot by the governing bodies.