Terence Crawford has supplied his ideas on the bitter rivalry between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, reflecting on the controversy surrounding their first skilled encounter.
The pair squared off on six events as amateurs, with the rating studying 3-3 forward of their 12-round professional contest in April 2024.
Again then, Haney entered their showdown because the WBC super-lightweight champion, and a large favorite, however in the end suffered three knockdowns earlier than dropping a majority resolution.
Garcia, in the meantime, was not entitled to win the world title after tipping the scales at simply over 143lbs, however nonetheless succeeded in pulling off a substantial upset.
His victory was then overturned to a no-contest after it emerged that ‘King Ry’ had examined optimistic for ostarine, a banned substance, for which he was handed a year-long ban by the New York State Athletic Fee.
Since then, although, Garcia and Haney have each turn into world champions at 147lbs by dethroning Mario Barrios and Brian Norman Jr, respectively.
It could subsequently appear that the 2 Individuals have launched into one other collision course, main them in direction of an anticipated rematch and potential unification conflict.
Talking to Joe Rogan, Crawford shunned providing a prediction and as an alternative highlighted the familiarity and controversy connected to their attainable sequel.
“They know one another far too nicely. I believe [Garcia] and Devin fought one another essentially the most [as amateurs] out of all of them.
“However I simply assume him and Devin – the historical past of it… Devin got here in there over-confident; Ryan being juiced up added somewhat [controversy].
“You may’t take away from him touchdown the punches he was touchdown; you possibly can’t take away from the efficiency… However, while you’re on steroids, that provides [an element of doubt].”
Haney dropped and outpointed Norman for his WBO strap in November, whereas Garcia’s WBC title conquer Barrios informed an analogous story final month. It’s believed {that a} rematch will probably be placed on ice in the intervening time, with Haney focusing on one other of the division’s champions in Rolando Romero this Could and Garcia anticipated to combat round an analogous time.
