Devin Haney is taking to the media circuits in what an effort to try and whitewash what happened to him in his loss to Ryan Garcia last month.
Interestingly, fans aren’t sympathetic with Haney calling Ryan a “cheater” and his team wanting to erase his loss to him due to his PED findings, which are still under investigation by the New York Commission.
Haney (31-1, 15 KOs) says he felt “something was up” with Ryan because he felt “overmatched” in their fight. He says he could have “lost” his life in the ring in that clash, which saw Haney drop three times and an additional three that the referee waved off.
This week, it was revealed that Ryan (25-1, 20 KOs) tested positive for the banned PED Ostarine on his tests for April 19th and 20th.
“Something Wasn’t Right”
“I can’t really say that. It was a tough fight obviously. I’m a special kind of fighter, so I’ve never fought and a guy’s been that much better than me,” said Haney to ESPN about his fight against Ryan.
“I’ve never been overmatched like that and I’ve been in there with the best fighters in the world. I felt like something was up, but I didn’t want to make excuses. I could’ve lost my life in that ring. When a guy is taking PEDs, it’s dangerous.”
Fans See Through the Smoke
The fans see it for what it really is. Haney’s defense was poor, and he couldn’t handle Ryan’s hand speed, left hook, and pressure.
- Ryan’s left hook: That left hook from Ryan was the equivalent of kryptonite for Haney. The punches Ryan was hitting Haney with knocked him for a loop.
- Haney’s Defensive Strategy involved holding excessively in an attempt to neutralize Ryan’s offense. It didn’t work. The clinching is not your friend, Devin.
- Result: A lot of canvas time. Devin walked into Garcia’s best shots all night and winded up on the floor six times. People see it as a situation where Haney’s defense was too poor to stop the left hooks that Ryan was hitting him with.
Haney’s bad habit of clinching nonstop left him wide open for Ryan’s powerful short-range check left hook that is his bread & butter punch.
If you know a fighter is at his most dangerous at close range, you don’t want to be clinching 24/7 the way Haney was during their fight, as he was directly in Ryan’s power alley each time he would do this.
In the first knockdown in the seventh, Haney was trying to hold, and he got nailed with a picture-perfect right-left combination at close range by Ryan.
