Devin Haney says a rematch between him and Ryan Garcia must happen on his terms. Amazingly, Devin is treating his loss to Ryan last April like a victory, suggesting that he is out of touch with reality.
Despite the loss last April, Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) expects to be the A side in the negotiations. In other words, Haney will not get a rematch. Haney, 25, is nowhere near Ryan’s level of popularity.
There’s only one way a second fight between them could happen, and that’s with Ryan being the star with the bigger cut and top bill. Haney was never popular to begin with, but fans consider him damaged goods.
Ryan (24-1, 20 KOs) is the more popular fighter of the two, with his 12 million followers on Instagram and his ability to generate huge interest in his fights. With that kind of following, Ryan is the A-side against almost anyone he faces.
“If he was right here, I would have gotten it back right away. I tried to do it fair, and you messed up. I did everything right; all my (tests) came back clean. Everything must be right; everything has to be on my terms,” Devin Haney told the All The Smoke Fight channel when asked about a rematch with Ryan Garcia.
Haney will not get the rematch with Ryan unless he accepts that he is the B side and asks nicely for the second fight. Ryan is the one in charge of this, and Haney is the needy one. Devin won’t make the money he would in a rematch with Ryan against anyone.
There is no one at 140 or 147 with the kind of fame that Ryan has. Even Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, the IBF welterweight champion, is nowhere near as popular as Ryan Garcia. For Haney to get the kind of money he can get to fight Ryan, he’ll have to fight one of these two fighters:
– Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis
– Canelo Alvarez
Tank Davis will likely insist that Haney fight him at a catchweight of 137 pounds so he can consider facing him, which is physically impossible for Devin to do. There is no way Haney can melt from 165 pounds to 137 for a catchweight against Tank.
Canelo isn’t going to waste time fighting Haney because he would be an even worse mismatch than facing Terence Crawford. Haney would shed a loss from 140 and move up four divisions to face Canelo at 168 if the Mexican star agreed to that celebrity-level bout.
