Haney: “Remembering Faces” After Garcia Loss

Devin Haney took to Instagram today and told his followers that he was “working in silence” and “remembering faces” of his “doubters.” This bitter message indicates that Haney was boot on his loss to Ryan Garcia and wants to show people how wrong they were about him.

The humiliating defeat must be hard for former two-division world champion Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) to digest as he replays in his mind the memory of the three times he was beaten by Kingry on April 20 at the Barclays Center ‘s left hook was dropped. in Brooklyn, New York.

It must be like an old, grainy movie in Devin’s head, and he probably wishes he had done things differently. Haney’s isolating behavior is a classic example of the shame response for someone who has failed. It could help Haney if he can come back stronger, having improved and ready to avenge his loss.

“Work in silence.. remember faces and names of every doubter and naysayer! @justtrain
#TheDream,” said Devin Haney Instagram.

Blame game

“Absolutely. Whatever happened, he’s not a quitter like Ryan stopped against Tank Davis. So, he’s known as a quitter,” Bill Haney told the Danza projectt, talking about Devin not stopping during his fight against Ryan Garcia. “Devin is a fighter.

“It was a combination of Devin not being Devin and him trying to be what the fans wanted to see,” Bill said of why Haney lost to Garcia. “Until then they said he had no heart and wouldn’t stand in the middle of the ring.

“He (Haney) stood in the middle of the ring with someone we didn’t consider in Ostarine. We didn’t consider that he would be that much stronger. One thing about Ostarine is that it helps with recovery. It helps with strength and power. All those things,” Bill said about why Devin lost to Kingry.

The reason Devin lost the fight was not because he stood in the “center of the ring” against Garcia. Where Haney lost the fight was his habit of landing non-stop, which put him in the line of fire of Ryan’s short left hook.

This was where Devin ate shots. He was reaching or pulling back with his hook, and that made it easy for Kingry to catch with the short flick left that he likes to throw. If Devin’s training team knew what they were doing, they would have warned him not to hold on so much because that style is tailor-made for Garcia.

It may have worked for Haney in his fights against George Kambosos Jr, Regis Prograis and Jorge Linares to hold, but using the same strategy against Garcia was stupid. That’s why he lost. How can Bill not know that?

Wasted time

“It was a great injustice done to a great guy who did nothing but good business. The fans, they’re the ones who buy the pay-per-views. You want to please them. Devin wants to please his games to go out and fight like this. It wasn’t a winning game plan, but I can still support my guy 1000% because he fought. He went in there as a warrior. He came out, and I couldn’t be more proud of him,” Bill said of Devin.

What is concerning is how much time Haney has been out of the ring since his loss to Ryan. All this energy put into the lawsuit may not pay off for Haney, who loses time from his career and may not be worth it in the end. It’s unclear if Bill is driving the process, but it’s not a good thing for Devin if he loses a year of his career waiting for the lawsuit to come to an end.