The 24-year-old, who is based in Melbourne but fights under the Hammerhead Boxing banner, won the biggest boxing match of his career in Singapore at the weekend.
Haley defeated Muhammad Meeraj by majority decision to claim the vacant International Boxing Organisation Oceania-Oriental light heavyweight belt as well as two other minor titles.
''Hopefully, I'll have a lot of opportunities coming up now,'' Haley said.
''But I'll let my trainers and my managers deal with that.''
Haley improved his record to four wins from five professional fights but his last bout was a step up in class, Dunedin-based IBO Asia-Pacific vice-president Steve Scott said.
Scott was in Singapore to see the fight and helped make the match-up.
''This is just the start for him,'' Scott said.
''It was a stage for him to really make his first foray into international boxing.
''He had done a few, I guess, start-up fights to this point. But this was his first real main event.
''He has juggled kick boxing and boxing for the last few years ... but he has now decided to follow that one pathway and that's boxing.
''He certainly has all the attributes, if not to make it right to the top, to go very, very close to it. We are hopeful he can a long way ... and hopefully we can get some professional boxing back in Dunedin.''
The fight looked like it might not go much past round one when Haley landed at least three heavy left hooks. One of them floored his opponent but Meeraj got back up and responded with a knockdown of his own in round five.
''It was a very tough fight and there was some hard action,'' Haley said.
''I didn't expect to put him down in the first round. Once I did, I tried to stay composed rather than get all messy and just go for the knockout.''
The left hooks he landed periodically throughout the fight were a punch he had practised repeatedly during training.
''We watched his videos and prepared a good game plan. We worked my left hook day in and day out so we could catch him with it and it worked beautifully.''
There was another reason Haley's camp was so keen to work on his left hook. He nearly turned down the opportunity to fight because he was struggling with an injured right elbow.
The left hook did not always work, though. He got beaten to the punch in round five and it almost cost him the fight.
''The commentators thought it was a body shot but ... I went to throw my left hook and he got me first and sent me to the canvas.
''It was the first time I've been dropped by a punch in my career.''
Haley moved to Melbourne in 2012 but continues to work with his former boxing coach, Bryan Usher, and former kick boxing coach, Matt Toa. Both men were in Singapore to support Haley.
