Bag Dropped: Garcia and Haney’s Poor Performances Jeopardize Lucrative Rematch

The standing of the rematch between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney is unclear after Ryan’s defeat towards Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero and Haney’s dreadfully poor efficiency in victory over Jose Ramirez final Friday within the Occasions Sq. occasion in New York on Could 2nd.

Turki Alalshikh hasn’t confirmed if the plans for the Garcia vs. Haney 2 rematch are nonetheless in place for October in Riyadh. Nonetheless, the horrible performances from each have damage followers’ curiosity in seeing a second battle. They might must redeem themselves first towards different fighters, ideally high-level contenders.

Rematch in Doubt

It is going to require Garcia to avenge his loss to Rolly or defeat one of many champions at 147, like Jaron Ennis or Brian Norman Jr. As for Haney, he must be put in with a stone-cold killer as effectively. His efficiency in his win over Jose Ramirez was so poor that his inventory dropped even additional. Turki must throw Haney in with one in every of these sharks in a closing proving floor sort of battle:

– Jaron Ennis– Brian Norman Jr.– Conor Benn– Gary Antuanne Russell– Richardson Hitchins

Promoter Eddie Hearn says Ryan and Haney “dropped the bag” by failing to supply of their tune-up fights. He reveals that Garcia (24-2, 20 KOs) and Haney (32-0, 15 KOs) have been presupposed to be “dealing with off” contained in the ring after their fights to start selling their huge rematch in October in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The face-off didn’t occur, which means that Turki Alalshikh could select to not undergo together with his plans for the Garcia-Haney 2 rematch.

They each wanted to win their tune-up fights to lock of their October rematch. Though Haney did his half, defeating Ramirez, he was timid and threw solely 224 punches your complete 12-round battle. Haney landed 70, however he seemed afraid to face and battle. Commenator Tim Bradley says he thinks Devin has PTSD from the beating he took towards Ryan Garcia final 12 months on April twentieth in Brooklyn, New York.

Ryan was knocked down within the second spherical by the heavy-handed Romero (17-2, 13 Kos), and surprisingly outboxed the rest of the way in which in shedding a 12-round unanimous determination by the scores 115-112, 118-109, and 115-112.

Nerves and Inactivity

“Ryan and Devin dropped the bag within the largest bag drop you’ve ever seen,” mentioned promoter Eddie Hearn to Fighthype, reacting to Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney’s horrible performances final Friday evening at Occasions Sq. in New York Metropolis.

Hearn is true. Each Haney and Garcia blew their probability to make a goldmine of chilly, onerous money with their terrible efficiency final Friday evening. Each have been equally poor and there’s no method on Earth that Turki can put them in with one another in a rematch and or not it’s effectively acquired by the boxing public.

“Tonight was going to be them dealing with off for the large rematch,” continued Hearn. “Props to Rolly, however Ryan simply didn’t flip up in any respect. He didn’t attempt to win the battle, did he? I do know he bought buzzed early, however it wasn’t actually a heavy knockdown. However he simply let the battle go him by. It’s loopy.”

It seemed like Kingry misplaced his nerve after Rolly dropped him in spherical two, and didn’t dare to have interaction after that. You may perceive why. Romero seemed like Julian Jackson 2.0 in that battle, and was punching holes in Ryan with each shot.

“It was okay,” mentioned Hearn when requested what he considered Haney’s efficiency towards Jose Ramirez. “I advised him, ‘You actually wanted to carry your toes a bit bit extra. He truly buzzed Ramirez a number of occasions, however I believe there have been lots of nerves. I believe he’s [Haney] been out for a 12 months. Ryan has been out for a 12 months as effectively. Inactivity kills. We noticed that tonight.”

What’s Hearn speaking about? Haney was NOT “okay” together with his efficiency towards Ramirrez. He was even worse than Ryan, as a result of he appeared 100% terrified, and was operating from the battlefield. When followers see fighters like that, they view it as straight-up cowardice. That’s the one solution to interpret it.

Haney seemed jumpy, like a shell-shocked battle veteran, unable to deal with aggravating occasions with out going to items mentally. That loss to Ryan Garcia took one thing out of Haney, leaving the shell that followers noticed towards Ramirez.