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The five best wins of Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez and ranking those victories
In a short period of time, Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, and Teofimo Lopez have delivered memorable victories that will be etched in the lore of boxing annals for years to come.
At 26, Haney is already a two-division world champion, having reached undisputed lightweight glory, plus a world title at 140 pounds.
Lopez, 27, too is a two-division world champion, with a reign as the unified lightweight crown holder and current status as WBO and The Ring super lightweight champ.
While an interim WBC lightweight win is the closest Garcia, 26, has gotten to becoming a world champion, “King Ry” has built one of boxing’s biggest fan bases as a mercurial talent.
All being said, with the three young stars being the A-side of their respective fights Friday night at The Ring's Fatal Fury: Times Square in New York City, and live and exclusively on DAZN PPV, DAZN News decided to list each of their five best wins to date.
DAZNRyan Garcia’s five best wins
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1. Devin Haney by majority decision win, which was later turned into a no contest; April 20, 2024
2. Luke Campbell via seventh-round TKO; Jan. 2, 2021
3. Javier Fortuna by sixth-round KO; July 16, 2022
4. Oscar Duarte via eighth-round KO; Dec. 2, 2023
5. Emmanuel Tagoe by unanimous decision; April 9, 2022
Yes, Ryan Garcia’s majority decision win over Devin Haney last April was later changed to a no contest after “King Ry” failed a drug test.
But the way Garcia beat Haney that night in Brooklyn, New York, turning the “Dream” into a nightmare with three knockdowns, remains embedded and singed into the memories of boxing fans.
It is a mugging type of beatdown that until Haney is able to avenge, it is going to be hard to shake. And for that reason it heads Garcia’s list of best wins, although it is no longer a victory in the record books.
From there, Garcia’s best actual win would have to be his overcoming of adversity in rising up from a knockdown to produce a seventh-round TKO of an older, more savvy Luke Campbell in Dallas, Texas to claim the then-vacant WBC interim lightweight world title.
Teofimo Lopez’s five best wins
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1. Vasiliy Lomachenko by unanimous decision; Oct. 17, 2020
2. Josh Taylor via unanimous decision; June 10, 2023
3. Richard Commey by second-round TKO; Dec. 14, 2019
4. Sandor Martin via split decision; Dec. 10, 2022
5. Diego Magdaleno by seventh-round KO; Feb. 2, 2019
When Teofimo Lopez dubbed himself “The Takeover,” he meant it.
The Brooklyn, New York fighter of Honduran descent had just become a world champion for the first time in his career by delivering a riveting second-round TKO of Richard Commey to take the IBF lightweight world title at Madison Square Garden in New York City in December 2019, when his next challenge had him up against one of the pound-for-pound greatest in Vasiliy Lomachenko, then a unified lightweight world champion.
Installed as the large underdog, not only did Lopez defeat Lomachenko but he did so at his own game — using supreme sweet science skills instead of relying on power and force.
That win made Lopez the unified lightweight world champion but he was far from done with generating memorable victories.
His next best win would have to be against the previously-undefeated WBO and The Ring super lightweight world champion Josh Taylor.
This time Lopez had to move up in weight to challenge the crown holder and bigger man. That did not stop him from delivering another boxing masterclass in becoming a two-division world champion, capturing the 140-pound WBO and The Ring titles that he still holds currently.
Devin Haney’s five best wins
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1. Vasiliy Lomachenko by unanimous decision; May 20, 2023
2. Regis Prograis via unanimous decision; Dec. 9, 2023
3. George Kambosos Jr. by unanimous decision; June 5, 2022
4. Jorge Linares via unanimous decision; May 29, 2021
5. Joseph Diaz Jr. by unanimous decision; Dec. 4, 2021
Prior to that nightmarish outing against Ryan Garcia last spring, Devin Haney’s career has been, well, a “Dream.”
Like Lopez, Haney’s best victory yet came against Lomachenko.
Though his unanimous decision was considered controversial, as many thought Loma did enough to have his hand raised, Haney still emerged from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas as the undisputed lightweight champion of the world. And he did it against one of the prior generation’s all-time best.
Defeating older, more experienced world champions has been a staple throughout Haney’s career including this list as his victories over Prograis, Kambosos, Linares and Diaz all had him outboxing veteran opponents toward comfortable unanimous decisions.
The Linares win, in particular, had Haney overcoming late turbulence and jelly legs to preserve the points victory as he bolstered his mettle.
