Devin Haney remains 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 struggle. 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 chubby at 143.2 lbs for the struggle, and Hearn feels that he was making an attempt to make weight on the final attainable second.
Hearn gave his ideas on Ryan’s constructive check, which appears to hassle Haney. He feels that if Ryan had been utilizing Ostarine to realize, he would have been popped in earlier exams.
Haney remains to be focusing quite a bit on Ryan’s constructive check 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 remains to be crying about Ryan’s constructive check as a result of it makes it sound like he’s making an attempt to erase the loss of their minds by consistently mentioning that he examined constructive. 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 alter the followers’ minds. They noticed what they noticed: Haney getting repeatedly dropped by Ryan and crushed up. On the finish of the struggle, Haney’s face was badly swollen, and he’d misplaced.
“It might go away me to consider that it was in relation to the load lower,” mentioned promoter Eddie Hearn to the All of the Smoke YouTube channel, speaking about Ryan Garcia testing constructive for Ostarine for his struggle towards Haney on April twentieth. “I consider he took that to try to make weight for the struggle.”
Andre Ward: “That’s what I consider. He [Ryan] examined the week of the struggle and the evening of the struggle. You don’t begin taking issues the week of the struggle and the evening of the struggle. How he confirmed up in New York, and the way a lot weight he was over. I consider someone mentioned, ‘Take this.’ Some type of diuretic, and he didn’t do his analysis, and he popped, and he’s chargeable for it.
“You realize Ryan had his likelihood to have the ability to take it to courtroom and show himself harmless. However as an alternative, he’d somewhat take a two-year ban,” mentioned Caleb Plant on the Combat 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 constructive earlier than, and he’d knocked out many fighters, some with a greater chin than Haney. The left hook that Ryan repeatedly damage Haney with throughout the struggle would doubtless do the identical factor to him if he hadn’t examined constructive for Ostarine.
The Combat that Haunts Haney
“Devin is a good fighter. I haven’t seen someone that might get dropped arduous like that and go proper again to work. He took his eight depend and obtained 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 mentioned to the Combat Hub TV YouTube channel about Haney, failing to say that he was clinching nonstop after getting dropped within the seventh spherical by Ryan.
It feels like the previous tremendous middleweight champion Plant didn’t watch the Haney-Garcia struggle as a result of Haney didn’t stand up after being dropped and instantly began combating. When Haney obtained up from the primary knockdown within the seventh, he was clinching nonstop, and he wouldn’t let go.
That’s why Ryan obtained 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 chubby and testing constructive, it’s not proper. You may kill a person like that. I don’t like cheaters. Fairly just a few followers are taking the facet of the person that cheated and got here in chubby over the man that put it on the road. He stored getting up after knockdown after knockdown.
