Bill Haney believes that Conor Benn needs to earn a fight with his son and newly-minted three-weight world champion Devin.

On Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Haney (33-0, 15 KOs) dropped and shut down the heavy-handed Brian Norman Jr (28-1, 22 KOs) over 12 clinical rounds to take the 24-year-old's WBO welterweight title, becoming a three-division beltholder in the chief support slot on the stacked Ring IV card.

Haney began his first fight at 147 pounds in electric fashion. Looking strong and fast, he took the fight to the dangerous Norman Jr and dropped him with a perfectly timed right hand in the second round.

Norman Jr - who entered the fight as The Ring's No. 1-rated welterweight - found his feet but despite closing up the scorecards over the second-half, never came close to uncorking his famed left hook as Haney boxed his way to a deserved unanimous decision.

Beating Norman will reignite interest in Haney’s career. In April 2024, he was decked three times by Ryan Garcia en route to a surprise majority decision defeat. The result was later changed to a no-contest after Garcia tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.

After a year-long layoff, he rebounded with a points win over the faded Jose Carlos Ramirez on May 2 but attracted criticism for a dull but effective performance.

The door is now open to any number of big fights but at the post-fight press conference, Haney’s father and trainer, Bill, pre-emptively shut down talk about a fight with Benn (24-1, 14 KOs) who sat ringside and claimed that Haney looked 'scared of his own shadow'.

"If anyone asks any questions about someone named Conor 'When' and I say that because when is he going to get a belt?" he said.

"When is he going to do what Devin has done if you're going to put them in the same name at the same time."

Last weekend, Benn outpointed his longtime rival Chris Eubank Jr in their middleweight rematch. The pair's long-running rivalry has turned Benn into a major attraction and around 60,000 fans watched the fight at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The 29-year-old has since reaffirmed his plan to now drop down to 147 pounds - a weight he hasn't made for more than three years - to chase a world title. Haney doesn't believe that Benn brings anything new or interesting to the table.

"It's Conor 'When'. Conor when is he going to do something in boxing that's on Devin Haney's level? I mean, just one thing before you start talking to us man," he continued.

"We did the stadium in Australia, we did that for undisputed [against George Kambosos Jr]. We did [Vasyl] Lomachenko."

Hours removed from making history in his third weight division, a clearly exasperated Haney seemed genuinely baffled people were immediately bringing up Benn's name. Nonetheless, the 27-year-old seemed more open to entertaining the idea than his father.

"Y'all don't understand that I will fight anybody," he insisted. "I don't care, really don't, it does not matter to me. I will fight whoever it is, whoever y'all put in front of me. It does not matter, whoever y'all say is the guy."

Haney Sr agreed that his son is open to taking on all comers but couldn’t resist chipping in one final time.

"I say he's not the guy, champ," he said.