Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia lastly met within the ring Saturday night time on the Barclays Heart in Brooklyn after a extremely uncommon build-up to their battle, nevertheless it wasn't in any respect what followers anticipated when the 2 signed on the road dotted. Garcia's psychological state was the largest concern for a lot of in the course of the promotion of the battle after the 25-year-old confirmed indicators that he is probably not in the fitting way of thinking heading into one of many largest fights of his younger profession profession.
However the true concern — at the very least for Haney — ought to have been Garcia's left hook, which dropped Haney 3 times on Saturday as Garcia displayed his strongest weapon en path to a shocking majority resolution win. Sadly for Garcia, Haney's WBC tremendous light-weight belt was not on the road after Garcia missed weight on Friday.
Concern for Golden Boy Promotion's largest star started to develop after the battle was secured in opposition to Haney, and Garcia started posting controversial and defamatory posts on social media. Garcia has been open about his struggles with psychological well being previously and even took a break from his boxing profession to cope with it.
Issues got here to a head at Friday's weigh-in, when Garcia got here in three.2 kilos over the 140-pound restrict. He made a wager with Haney throughout Thursday's press convention the place he agreed to pay $500,00zero for each pound he weighed over 140. That wager ended up costing Garcia $1.5 million , and Haney later tweeted that Garcia honored the wager. Then, in the course of the ceremonial weigh-in, Garcia appeared to drink a beer on the size. He later tweeted: “Apple juice and glowing water.”
Garcia's weight reduction and apparently fragile psychological state have many expressing concern for his security. As an alternative, possibly Garcia was simply setting himself up for the huge upset. And now the 2 can run it again in a rematch with the belt on the road.
Right here's how the battle unfolded:
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Devin Haney vs. Outcomes Ryan Garcia
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Tremendous Light-weight: Ryan Garcia def. Devin Haney by majority resolution (112-112, 114-110, 115-109)
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Tremendous Light-weight: Arnold Barboza def. Sean McComb through cut up resolution (92-98, 96-94, 97-93)
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Tremendous Middleweight: Bektemir Melikuziev def. Pierre Dibombe by unanimous technical resolution (79-73, 79-73, 78-74)
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Interim WBA tremendous flyweight title: David Jimenez def. John Ramirez through unanimous resolution (117-111, 117-111, 116-112)
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Tremendous Welterweight: Charles Conwell def. Nathaniel Gallimore by TKO at zero:52 of R6