Bill Haney Claims Floyd Mayweather Retired After Sparring Devin Haney: “It Wasn’t Close”

They say that what happens in sparring should stay in sparring but now Bill Haney has claimed that Floyd Mayweather retired after sparring with his son Devin and that ‘it wasn’t close.’

Haney and Mayweather were close in the early part of’ The Dream’s’ career before parting ways. Since then Haney became undisputed lightweight champion and then moved up to super lightweight and beat Regis Prograis to lift a world title in a second division.

Next up he has a huge pay-per-view fight with Ryan Garcia on April 20. It is Garcia’s latest step up having also taken on but lost to Gervonta Davis last year.

Now, speaking to FightHub TV, Haney’s father has claimed that his son got the better of Mayweather in sparring and that is what made up his mind to retire from the sport.

“He should have showed the sparring video of him and Devin. Yeah. it was 6-0, it wasn’t close. It was like Floyd was looking in the mirror, I told him.

“It was before the Conor McGregor fight when he finally decided he could no longer be in boxing with no real fighters. Devin snapped that. He knew the torch has passed and he passed it to Devin.

“If he hadn’t we would be challenging him, like we challenge anybody, there is not anybody in and around the division that he is not looking to fight. It’s the new era, it’s the Devin Haney era, and that’s what it is.”

Haney and Garcia have already fought six times in the amateurs but this first contest in the pro ranks will settle the score at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn.