Ryan Garcia believes that with him being at full strength on April 20th, Devin Haney won’t beat him. Kingry (24-1, 20 KOs) is vowing to “knockout” WBC light welterweight champion Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in their headliner on DAZN PPV at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Power Surge
It will be interesting to see how powerful Ryan is for this fight compared to his last two fights against Oscar Duarte and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis. Ryan looks like he’s put on size since his match against Duarte, and we’ll see if Haney can take his power shots without folding like Javier Fortuna did.
In Ryan’s loss last year against Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, he dealt with the double whammy of a catchweight and rehydration clause that drained him to the point where he was weakened enough for the Baltimore native to defeat him.
That fight taught Ryan a lesson about not agreeing to weight stipulations. Tank and his team must have felt that he needed an edge to ensure victory, so they made that one of the requirements for Ryan to agree to for him to get the fight.
Garcia: “Devin Haney Will Not Beat Me”
“Devin Haney will not beat me. Me at my full strength is too much. I’m ready to do my job,” said Ryan Garcia on social media. “Yeah, because we moved up. The talent moves up. Everybody got to move up,” said Ryan, responding to being told the 135-lb division has ‘dried up’ of names.
What Ryan should do is follow the blueprint created by Tank Davis’ sparring session with Haney. In that sparring session, Tank chased Haney around the ring, nailing him nonstop shots and not letting him escape to get to the outside to use his reach.
That’s the correct way to fight Haney. You chase him and throw nonstop combinations to keep him from grabbing and tying you up the way he normally does when he’s chased down. Fighters like George Kambosos Jr. and Regis Prograis did a poor job of chasing Haney down, and they were allowing him to clinch without throwing combinations.
Vasily Lomachenko also did an excellent job against Haney, but where he went wrong is finishing strong in the 12th round. He also wasn’t on top of Haney in the first four rounds the way he needed. The weight advantage that Haney had against Lomachenko played a part in the outcome because he looked at least 20 lbs heavier than Loma.
“Nobody is going down to 135. [Isaac ‘Pitbull’] Cruz went up to 140. Everybody is going up. Nobody is worried about whatever Gervonta Davis is doing. I guarantee you nobody is worried about him.
Lessons Fueling Drive
“I’m telling that if he [Gervonta] wants to see me at 140, we can do it next, but he’s not going to do it because he cannot take this energy. I know he can’t take it. They [Team Tank Davis] did everything they could to try and disable me. I went in there with a smile and left with a smile, and I made $30 million in one night,” said Ryan.
“I almost died making weight, and I came and fought through it all, and now look at where I’m at. I’m 25 years old, and I could retire tomorrow if I wanted to, but I don’t because I got a big mission. Right now, I’m going to knock out Devin Haney,” said Ryan.
