{"id":25790,"date":"2020-08-02T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T07:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=25790"},"modified":"2020-08-02T07:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T07:02:17","slug":"fortuna-email-champion-haney-is-a-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=25790","title":{"rendered":"Fortuna: \u2018Email champion\u2019 Haney is a coward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fortuna says Haney backtracked from him so he could target Yuriorkis Gamboa. <\/p>\n

Javier Fortuna (35-2-1, 24 KOs) has come out with some harsh words for WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney, calling the young American fighter a coward for skirting a bout against him and instead targeting Yuriorkis Gamboa — who is coming off an Achilles tear. <\/p>\n

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“When the pandemic started, Haney reclaimed his title via email. And that’s what he is – an email champion besides being a coward. Now he wants to fight Yuriorkis Gamboa instead.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That change in course has led Fortuna to another bout, against former titleholder Jorge Linares (47-5, 29 KOs) on August 28th in Indio, California. Fortuna says that fight gives him the kind of credible opponent he needs to bolster his standing int he sport. <\/p>\n

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“I have been trying to secure a signature win for a long time in my career, to honor the Dominican Republic and (my native city of) La Romana,” Fortuna explained. “A victory against Linares would be just that.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fortuna, 31, heads into this fight coming off a stoppage win over Jesus Cuellar last November while Linares, 34, scored a knockout win over Carlos Morales in February. As for Haney, well, he’s been talking a big game in the media, but he’s yet to face a top flight opponent despite holding the ‘world champion’ distinction. <\/p>\n

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Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty Images Fortuna says Haney backtracked from him so he could target Yuriorkis Gamboa. Javier Fortuna (35-2-1, 24 KOs) has come out with some harsh words for WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney, calling the young American fighter a coward for skirting a bout against him and instead targeting Yuriorkis Gamboa — who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}