Shakur Stevenson believes the WBC light-weight champion Devin Haney shall be victorious, predicting a knockout win over an unfocused Ryan Garcia on April twentieth of their showdown on DAZN PPV.
Garcia: Centered on Promotion, Not Preparation?
Stevenson feels that Ryan (24-1, 20 KOs) has been extra centered on selling and advertising the struggle to promote tickets than on making ready his contest in opposition to the unbeaten Haney (31-0, 15 KOs).
With tickets not promoting for his or her conflict on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn, New York, Ryan has put in a whole lot of onerous work making an attempt to drum up fan curiosity. Haney and his dad, Invoice, haven’t finished a whole lot of promotion for the match.
Haney has largely been busy, whereas his dad has been speaking up a struggle in opposition to Gervonta Davis, assuming that Devin will defeat Ryan on April twentieth. Invoice has been so busy making an attempt to hustle the subsequent struggle for Devin that he’s dropped the ball on the advertising of this one, and it reveals with the poor ticket gross sales.
Ticket Gross sales vs. Struggle Preparation
“If he can’t get that [Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis rematch], then there’s no different outlet for him to go. I feel the one transfer there may be in opposition to me,” mentioned Shakur Stevenson to ESNEWS about Ryan Garcia needing to struggle him if he can’t get a rematch with Tank Davis after his April twentieth struggle in opposition to Devin Haney.
“Yeah, in my view, I feel Devin beats him, and I agree with Robert Garcia’s son. He in all probability will get stopped by Devin simply due to what I’ve seen. I’m on the surface. For me on the surface, he’s been type of like extra so centered on promoting tickets for the struggle.”
Haney and Invoice picked Ryan over extra deserving unbeaten contenders, clearly for cash functions, however he clearly hadn’t finished sufficient to charge a title shot after being knocked out by Gervonta Davis final yr and beating a fringe light-weight contender, Oscar Duarte.
Sparring Footage Considerations
“He’s making an attempt to make it a giant struggle greater than coming ready and being at his finest,” mentioned Shakur. “Once I watched the sparring video that I seen the place they mentioned he was beating folks up, I didn’t view it as him trying tremendous good.
“He seemed type of large and type of hefty at that time of time. I don’t know. We’ll see. I don’t assume he can win,” mentioned Shakur about Ryan.
