Valuable lesson

UNDERCARD

WITH the 10th round coming to a close at the Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay, it looked as though Devin Haney, the precocious 22-year-old owner of a sliver of the lightweight crown, was well on his way to pitching a shutout over Jorge Linares, the flashy but weatherbeaten Venezuelan contender.

It had been kind of night for the young American they call “The Dream.” Like a flawless piece of HTML code, Haney operated as programmed, plastering Linares with a busy jab, hard hooks and shifty uppercuts as he pirouetted his way out of seemingly every incoming punch. It seemed that for all of Linares’ world class credentials, Haney would have to wait another day to be properly challenged.

But with less than three