Ryan Garcia revealed that he felt for the seriously injured Devin Haney when he defeated him in seven rounds. Garcia told Devin’s father, Bill Haney, to stop fighting to save his son, but Devin did not respond.
Bill left Devin there to absorb the blow from the seventh round, and he ended up losing a 12-round majority decision to Ryan (25-1, 20 KOs).
It’s unclear what went through Bill’s mind to leave Haney there to wear him out with hard shots, but it’s possible he assumed Ryan would tire.
he didn’t. Rather, Ryan came out even stronger in the championship round, gaining momentum from 10th to 12th, dropping Haney twice.
“I cared about him. He didn’t look right.”
“At that moment, I felt bad for him. He didn’t look right in the ring,” Ryan Garcia said on social media after his son Devin was battered in the seventh round and repeatedly He said on social media that when he was dropped and wasn’t feeling well, he told Bill Haney to pull him up. Please stand up.
“He didn’t give me anything anymore. It didn’t make sense unless I wanted him to definitely kill my son. It was just weird to me. I hated watching it. He didn’t say he was. So I went back to the fight. I asked Bill to stop the fight.”
Haney went down multiple times in the seventh round and tried to hold, but it hurt too much to prevent Ryan from breaking free and crushing him with shots.
What probably saved Haney from being knocked out was referee Harvey Dock stopping the action to take a point from Ryan, who took a hit on the break. Before that, he did not warn Ryan to start deducting points.
Doc also spent a lot of time making deductions, which happened just as Haney was about to be knocked out.
Garcia dissatisfied with referee’s actions
“I never felt like that, but I look back and say, ‘Oh my god, brother.’ ‘You took exactly 1** points away from me,'” Garcia said in the seventh round. When asked if he ever thought referee Harvey Dock was working against him, he replied: Haney was seriously injured.
Also, when Haney continued to go down, the referee did not score it as a knockdown, even though Ryan was landing punches. “There was no warning or anything. The straight took the points away from me. Devin Haney was over and I went for the finish, but he couldn’t break us down.
“I tried to throw a punch with my free hand. He said, ‘Break up,’ so I punched him.” He hugged me for over 20 seconds and he never called Devin Haney,” Garcia said.
