SAN DIEGO \u2013 Less than a mere week ago, it appeared the Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney rematch was a fait accompli bound to stand as the most important boxing match of the fall.<\/p>\n
Garcia promoter Oscar De La Hoya told BoxingScene Thursday that, \u201cI\u2019ll never, ever put Devin in with one of our guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether that decision was connected to Haney\u2019s evasive showing against De La Hoya fighter Jose Ramirez Friday, the promoter\u2019s running feud with Haney father-manager-trainer, Bill Haney, or the fact that Haney sued Garcia for battery following their April 2024 no-contest in which Garcia knocked down Haney three times but then submitted three positive PED test results, De La Hoya said, \u201cAll of the above.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t waste my time with Devin because he runs and will continue running.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia, 24-2 (20 KOs), was upset by Rolly Romero in the main event of the Saudi Arabia-promoted main event Friday in Times Square while Haney, 32-0 (15 KOs), engaged in a highly inactive showing to defeat former unified 140lbs champion Jose Ramirez by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n
Bill Haney took the news in stride, saying he feels De La Hoya fighters \u2013 including former lightweight champion Jorge Linares \u2013 \u201care 0-3 against us when you consider Ryan Garcia didn\u2019t beat us clean.\u201d<\/p>\n
De La Hoya\u2019s comment was in response to being asked if he\u2019d be interested in sending his fighters Arnold Barboza Jnr or Oscar Duarte to fight Haney before jumping right into a Garcia-Haney rematch.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn’t have nothing left,\u201d Bill Haney told BoxingScene. \u201cWho does he have? We whooped everyone over there and are threatening to whip anything over there. What’s over there for us to fight?\u201d<\/p>\n
Haney made no apologies for how his son performed Friday, taking the cautious route to avoid the plodding Ramirez and his left hook.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll continue making our way to the Mount Rushmore of boxing \u2013 in our last fight, we used our legs and lateral movement,\u201d Bill Haney said. \u201cSometimes, you rely on the West Coast offense. Sometimes, it\u2019s defense. It\u2019s all about winning. Every fight is not all roses and every win may not be glamorous, but I can tell you Bill Haney is thrilled, excited and happy about that result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haney said Garcia\u2019s showing against Romero was not surprising given the scrutiny he endured by the drug-testing body Voluntary Anti-Doping Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not King Ryan. He\u2019s Lyin\u2019 Ryan,\u201d Bill Haney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can tell Oscar that he needs to humble himself, and when he gets his panties out of his ass, he will realize that that is the Devin Haney era, and he better hope that he can find a boxer qualified to get in the ring with Devin because Devin is more accomplished than anybody that he has over there right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
De La Hoya went into last week\u2019s bout wondering why Devin Haney retained his father as his trainer after the repeated knockdowns against Garcia and then jumping into the assignment with the veteran Ramirez.<\/p>\n
After the victory, Bill Haney took pride in defeating the Golden Boy Promotions team of De La Hoya, Bernard Hopkins and 2024 Trainer of the Year Robert Garcia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gave Ramirez 36 minutes with the whip with a guy that came up from a smaller division in front of all of them, and they didn’t cut the ring off or come up with the gameplan to beat us,\u201d Bill Haney said. \u201cIt’s gonna haunt them when they look back on that fight and realize. We showed [Ramirez] was a straight, up and down fighter with no special effects, and we added Ramirez\u2019s scalp to the resume.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Haney said he and his son haven\u2019t determined which fighter they are targeting next.<\/p>\n
Lance Pugmire is BoxingScene\u2019s senior U.S. writer and an assistant producer for ProBox TV. Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times and then at The Athletic and USA Today. He won the Boxing Writers\u2019 Association of America\u2019s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for career excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2013 Less than a mere week ago, it appeared the Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney rematch was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[41313,1935,23809,32434,32437,32435,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-85859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-bill-haney","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-devin-haney","11":"tag-golden-boy-promotions","12":"tag-jose-ramirez","13":"tag-oscar-de-la-hoya","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114474807725298327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}