Ryan Garcia closed the door on a rematch with Devin Haney after watching his interview today. Haney set the terms for a second fight, saying they had to be on his terms. Garcia says Haney will have to “live” that nightmare of their fight last April, which Devin lost.
If Devin can’t get the rematch, he might forever haunted by the memory of that terrible night and reliving it daily, even into old age. It would be pure torture. He will be like a war veteran who has flashbacks from the battle and cannot let go.
Ryan is referring to the left hook he used to drop Haney six times in the fight, although the referee only counted three of them. The referee disallowed an additional try in the seventh round.
This is a huge setback for Haney, losing in the rematch with Ryan, as it would have been a huge payday. He’s not going to see that kind of money fight anyone else, and his career could soon be over once he faces someone good.
With all that sweet cash from a rematch with Ryan, Haney and his father, Bill, were able to go to the ‘Platinum Triangle’ in Los Angeles, a beautiful mansion in Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills or Bell Air for sale. Diddy has a mansion in Holmby Hills.
During an interview with Andre Ward today, former two-division world champion Haney appeared mentally broken and close to tears while discussing the events of his loss to Ryan in Brooklyn, New York.
If you doubt that Haney has gotten over that loss, that interview showed that he is still in bad shape and unable to let go of what happened to him. Promoter Eddie Hearn was right. Haney seems emotionally broken and may be physically broken. We won’t know until he fights again.
Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) tried to explain away the loss, saying he did everything right, but that Garcia on PEDs made him better. He sounded like a textbook example of a fighter in denial, still trying to make sense of what had happened to him and using defense mechanisms to distance himself from facing the bitter truth.
“I’m competitive. Everything must be right. Everything just has to be on my terms,” Devin Haney told the All the Smoke Fight channel about a possible rematch with Ryan Garcia. “I tried to do it on your terms.”
NO RESTARTING LIFE WITH THE LEFT HOOK NIGHTMARE https://t.co/xz09lJtpLB
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) September 19, 2024
It must be exhausting trying to distort reality just to avoid admitting defeat. You know, not everyone gets a participation trophy in life. Maybe if you spent half the energy on self-improvement that you do on excuses, you’d actually get somewhere. But hey, denial is a skill too, I…
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) September 19, 2024
