George Kambosos will be in a catch-22 on Saturday night, according to his opponent Devin Haney.

Haney, the undisputed lightweight champion, is set to take on Kambosos this Saturday at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, in a rematch of their summer encounter. Haney defeated Kambosos by unanimous decision in the first meeting, which prompted Kambosos to exercise his contractually mandated rematch clause.

The first fight drew headlines because it offered a rarity in boxing, a unification of all four belts in a division. With the win, which came in fairly dominant fashion, the 23-year-old Haney became the second youngest fighter to fully unify a division in the four-belt era.

The rematch, however, has been regarded as redundant by some observers because of the lopsided way in which Haney earned the victory. Working behind a pinpoint jab, Haney defused the gung-ho Kambosos over 12 rounds. Critics immediately pointed out that Kambosos made a mistake by trying to outbox a superior boxer and that it would have behooved him to apply more offensive pressure on his elusive foe.

Haney (28-0, 15 KOs) said whatever method is applied in the rematch, Kambosos (20-1, 10 KOs) is stuck either way. If the Aussie chooses to be more aggressive, Haney predicts that his opponent will only end up incurring more damage.  

“There’s no question he has to come with a different game plan,” Haney said during a face-off interview with Kambosos on Fox Sports Australia. “The first one didn’t work. That’s obvious. He can say what he want to say, but in reality, he’s going to come with a different game plan, and it’s obvious the game plan he’s going to come with.

"And in the first fight he tried that game plan, he tried to be more aggressive. He tried to be aggressive, to up the pressure, to up the tempo, but in reality, if he did it too much he would’ve got stopped. In this fight he can try that again and it won’t work.

“The more aggressive he is, the more he is going to get hit. It is what it is. The more you throw, the more you get hit.”