Devin Haney has a chance to do more than just successfully defend his undisputed lightweight titles against George Kambosos this Saturday. Depending on the manner in which he wins, he might even land a spot on a coveted rankings list, according to his opponent.

Haney, Oakland, California, will defend his WBA, WBO, WBC, and IBF 135-pound titles against Kambosos this Saturday at Rod Laver Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. This fight is an immediate rematch of their encounter in the summer, when Haney won a unanimous decision to add the WBA, WBO, and IBF titles to his existing WBC version.

In a recent interview, Kambosos offered something of an extra challenge to Haney: Stop me this time and you might claim a spot on a coveted pound-for-pound list.

“If he can stop me, he might make the pound-for-pound list,” Kambosos said in a face-off interview with Haney on Fox Sports Australia. “I hope he does try.”

“Hopefully, sh!t,” Haney responded with a grin.  

The subject of pound-for-pound placement was a particularly sensitive one for Haney over the summer. The 23-year-old took umbrage at the Ring after the magazine left him off on its newest pound-for-pound list, a subjective exercise that attempts to rank fighters across different weight classes. Haney felt that as the second youngest fighter to ever fully unify a division, and just the ninth to do so in the four-belt era, he deserved a spot atop the Ring magazine’s rankings. As retaliation, Haney vowed to ditch the Ring magazine lightweight belt, saying he would not be seen with the trinket “before and after” his rematch with Kambosos. In response, the Ring’s editor, Douglass Fischer, requested that Haney “mail” his belt back.

In recent fight-week photos for the rematch, Haney has indeed shown himself posing without the Ring belt.

The Ring magazine’s pound-for-pound rankings featured unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk at the top spot and Artur Beterbiev, the unified light heavyweight champion, at No. 10.