Devin Haney continues to be labored up over his loss to Ryan Garcia final April. Haney has been reposting nonstop on X, reacting to promoter Eddie Hearn’s seeming protection of the famous person Ryan (24-1, 20 KOs) by saying that he used the banned substance Ostarine strictly to assist him lower weight for the combat. Andre Ward believes the identical factor.
Lingering Obsession
Hearn thinks the previous two-division world champion Haney is “psychologically” and “emotionally” traumatized by his loss to Ryan Garcia. In different phrases, Haney’s loss to Ryan might have completely ruined him, leaving him a babbling damaged shell, nonetheless making an attempt to make sense of what occurred to him.
Ryan, 26, got here in 3.2 lbs obese at 143.2 lbs for the combat, and Hearn feels that he was making an attempt to make weight on the final potential second.
Hearn gave his ideas on Ryan’s optimistic take a look at, which appears to hassle Haney. He feels that if Ryan had been utilizing Ostarine to achieve, he would have been popped in earlier assessments.
Haney continues to be focusing lots on Ryan’s optimistic take a look at and comes throughout as somebody who nonetheless haunts his loss. It’s been 4 months, and he’s nonetheless speaking about it somewhat than pushing for a rematch to redeem himself or discussing fights towards different high fighters.
Followers don’t perceive why Haney continues to be crying about Ryan’s optimistic take a look at as a result of it makes it sound like he’s making an attempt to erase the loss of their minds by continuously declaring that he examined optimistic. It’s not going to work.
A Loss that Can’t Be Erased
The New York Fee overturned Haney’s loss, making it a no-contest, however that has failed to vary the followers’ minds. They noticed what they noticed: Haney getting repeatedly dropped by Ryan and overwhelmed up. On the finish of the combat, Haney’s face was badly swollen, and he’d misplaced.
“It will depart me to consider that it was in relation to the burden lower,” stated promoter Eddie Hearn to the All of the Smoke YouTube channel, speaking about Ryan Garcia testing optimistic for Ostarine for his combat towards Haney on April twentieth. “I consider he took that to try to make weight for the combat.”
Andre Ward: “That’s what I consider. He [Ryan] examined the week of the combat and the evening of the combat. You don’t begin taking issues the week of the combat and the evening of the combat. How he confirmed up in New York, and the way a lot weight he was over. I consider anyone stated, ‘Take this.’ Some type of diuretic, and he didn’t do his analysis, and he popped, and he’s answerable for it.
“You already know Ryan had his likelihood to have the ability to take it to court docket and show himself harmless. However as a substitute, he’d somewhat take a two-year ban,” stated Caleb Plant on the Struggle Hub TV YouTube channel.
Devin Haney: “Let’s simply say that’s the case. Why didn’t he make weight then?”
Throughout his profession, Ryan had by no means examined optimistic earlier than, and he’d knocked out many fighters, some with a greater chin than Haney. The left hook that Ryan repeatedly harm Haney with throughout the combat would probably do the identical factor to him if he hadn’t examined optimistic for Ostarine.
The Struggle that Haunts Haney
“Devin is a good fighter. I haven’t seen anyone that might get dropped exhausting like that and go proper again to work. He took his eight depend and bought proper again to work, as if nothing occurred. Devin would stand up and appear cool, calm, and composed and get proper again to work,” Caleb Plant stated to the Struggle Hub TV YouTube channel about Haney, failing to say that he was clinching nonstop after getting dropped within the seventh spherical by Ryan.
It seems like the previous tremendous middleweight champion Plant didn’t watch the Haney-Garcia combat as a result of Haney didn’t stand up after being dropped and instantly began preventing. When Haney bought up from the primary knockdown within the seventh, he was clinching nonstop, and he wouldn’t let go.
That’s why Ryan bought annoyed at him on the break. The referee ought to have penalized Haney for his holding within the seventh as a result of it was past extreme.
“With Ryan coming in obese and testing optimistic, it’s not proper. You may kill a person like that. I don’t like cheaters. Fairly a number of followers are taking the aspect of the person that cheated and got here in obese over the man that put it on the road. He stored getting up after knockdown after knockdown.
