Keef 'At One Time' Thurman perfected the art of the "Get Back" fights.
Fights against guys you're supposed to beat.
Keef did it.
Danny Swift did it.
Crawford did it (a lot).
But with Lomachenko, for example, he consistently fought threats.
Teofimo fought one or two threats, then leaped to Loma and beat him.
Teofimo then fought nobody before losing to Kambosos.
The A-Side can CHOOSE whether to fight, and if they do, whether they fight a scrub or someone that's a threat.
Kambosos could have taken a soft touch and nobody would have blamed him after the war with Teofimo.
Instead, he wanted a threat.
Tank (still rated at 135) is in a fight.
Cryan Garcia is in a fight.
That left Loma and Haney.
Loma chose to stay in the war. That left Haney.
Kambosos STILL could have fought someone from 140 or 130 at a catchweight. Or fought some bum.
He made a CHOICE to fight a threat.
He CHOSE Devin Haney.