Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia lastly met within the ring Saturday evening at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn after a extremely uncommon buildup to their struggle, but it surely wasn’t in any respect what followers have been anticipating when the 2 signed on the dotted line. Garcia’s psychological state was the largest concern for a lot of in the course of the struggle’s promotion after the 25-year-old confirmed indicators of maybe not being in the appropriate way of thinking heading into one of many greatest fights of his younger profession.
However the true concern — no less than for Haney — ought to have been Garcia’s left hook, which dropped Haney thrice Saturday as Garcia confirmed off his strongest weapon en path to a surprising majority determination win. Sadly for Garcia, Haney’s WBC tremendous light-weight belt wasn’t on the road after Garcia missed weight Friday.
Concern for Golden Boy Promotion’s greatest star began to develop after the struggle was secured towards Haney and Garcia started posting controversial and defamatory posts on social media. Garcia has been open about his psychological well being struggles up to now and even took a break from his professional boxing profession to kind himself out.
Issues got here to a head at Friday’s weigh-in when Garcia got here in 3.2 kilos above the 140-pound restrict. He had made a guess with Haney throughout Thursday’s information convention by which he agreed to pay $500,000 for each pound he weighed in at above 140. That guess ended up costing Garcia $1.5 million {dollars} and Haney later tweeted that Garcia had honored the wager. Then, in the course of the ceremonial weigh-in, Garcia appeared to chug a beer on the dimensions. He later tweeted, “Apple juice and glowing water.”
The burden miss and Garcia’s apparently fragile psychological state had many expressing concern for his security. As an alternative, Garcia might have simply been setting himself up for the large upset. And now the 2 might run it again in a rematch with the belt on the road.
This is how the struggle unfolded:
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Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia outcomes
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Tremendous light-weight: Ryan Garcia def. Devin Haney by majority determination (112-112, 114-110, 115-109)
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Tremendous light-weight: Arnold Barboza def. Sean McComb by cut up determination (92-98, 96-94, 97-93)
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Tremendous middleweight: Bektemir Melikuziev def. Pierre Dibombe by technical unanimous determination (79-73, 79-73, 78-74)
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WBA interim tremendous flyweight title: David Jimenez def. John Ramirez by unanimous determination (117-111, 117-111, 116-112)
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Tremendous welterweight: Charles Conwell def. Nathaniel Gallimore by TKO at 0:52 of R6