Regis Prograis was given a WBC light by Devin Haney after weighing in at the weight limit of 140 pounds for his bout in San Francisco, Calif., on Dec. 9 of last year, after hydrating and gaining 18% to 165 pounds. He wants to win back the welterweight belt.
Prograis does not recognize the difference in weight during the match
Haney's hydrated 25 pounds for the fight gave him a weight advantage over Prograis (29-2, 24 KOs), but Prograis lost the bout by 12 points and went home. He said he did not know the challenger's weight. Unanimous decision.
It's unclear why the fight was allowed to continue rather than canceled, given Haney's weight. If Prograis had been injured in the bout, there would have been a huge backlash for Haney being allowed to continue because he was too heavy.
“I didn't realize it until after the fight after I got home,” Regis Prograis told Mill City Boxing, adding that after his fight with Devin Haney, he rehydrated up to 165 pounds for his title fight. He talked about how he first learned about it. He was in San Francisco last December.
“Game night, you don't know anything about it. When I was in California, I didn't know anything about it. I let it go. Since you guys said that, I had to look into it. yeah.
Haney had hydrated up to 165 pounds in preparation for last December's fight, so when asked if he had a chance to win back the WBC light welterweight belt, Prograis said, “Yes.”
“Boxing is so corrupt. With the fight with Devin, he knows he's done. California has different rules. You don't have to be over a certain weight limit. You don't have to be over a certain weight. Devin was over that certain weight.
“So, literally, that game wasn't supposed to happen, and it literally shouldn't be allowed to happen, and yet it did, and that's the fact of the matter,” Prograis said.
