“Smart Boxing”: Danny Garcia defends Haney’s style after Ramirez fight and discharges critics

Former world champion of two divisions, Danny Garcia, says it was “Smart” For Devin Haney to use his ‘hit-and-not-hit’ style against Jose Ramirez on Times Square last Friday night. He says Haney (32-0, 15 COs) is a ‘boxer’, and he’s not standing in front of Ramirez to let him hit.

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The price of safety

Haney needed a wonderful performance to save himself after his loss of Ryan Garcia last year. This effort was not what he needed made him less marketable for future battles. Danny Garcia doesn’t see the angle, because the sport has changed a lot since 2012 when he was at his best. Fighters cannot pay the first-axle performances into the safety of the end of the first dollar.

‘The whole box is to hit and not hit. I understand that people want to see a fight, ‘Danny Garcia said Fighting typeTalk about last Friday’s Times Square card with Devin Haney stinking the joint, running for 12 rounds of Jose Ramirez. “Haney is a boxer. He is not going to stand in front of Ramirez and let him hit.

Haney had to increase his marketability after his last performance against Ryan Garcia, and he completely failed with his first first achievement. He could easily have stood in front of the slow battle Ramirez and got the better of him in the exchanges. He didn’t. Devin’s performance was so bad with his running and kept it to drop his stock even further than when he got into battle.

“His job is to get his points, use his legs and win,” Danny continued Haney. “I know people want to see a fight, but styles make fights. If you want to see better battles, you need to fight competition that you can’t comfortably leave in the ring. Let you delve deep and make you think. ‘

If Haney gets $ 10 million for a fight against a washed opponent, he owes it to the supporters and to Turki Alalshikh to set an A+ attempt by putting his chin on the fire line rather than running around for the whole battle. Danny Garcia doesn’t get it. He only sees it from the close view of Haney who has to win, but he does not understand that he should entertain, because he is fighting on PPV, and he is paid a lot. He said before the fight that he would “make a statement”, but he didn’t even try.

‘Smart’ strategy

“So it was more matchmaking for me. That’s why you got those kinds of fights. I wasn’t surprised because both Haney and Scull, that’s their style. They are boxers. They want to hit and not hit. It’s smart when you ask me. I see that people get angry, but boxing is really beaten and not touching, ‘says Danny.

It would have been a much more entertaining battle if Turki Alalshikh insisted that Haney fight against a lively dog ​​like Jaron Ennis, Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero, Brian Norman Jr., or Gary Antuanne Russell. The running and holding that Devin used against the old veteran, Jose Ramirez, would not have been enough to guarantee the win against the guys

They would have cut off the ring on Haney and/or knocked him out with the chances of beating him. Problems with the pace of Devin against the slow, faded Ramirez were asked, because he would use the situation by hitting and running all night. This is his style.

The purpose of Haney connected to the faded veteran Ramirez was twofold: 1. for display purposes to make him look like gold. 2.. Take the rust out of a year of inactivity.