Opinions differ as to why and how much Ryan Garcia’s mental illness has interfered with going into the fight against Devin Haney on Saturday night. Some believe that he changed “show” to “show” and believe that he and promoter Oscar De La Hoya were all told to promote the fight. Some believe he is in serious mental health trouble and should not be in the ring this week. Others are somewhere in between.
If these actions are designed to increase sales, I think they are pointless. Haney won more than when the fight was first announced, and there is a segment of the boxing audience that won’t even watch the fight, let alone pay to see it.
Boxing columnist Dan Rafael said ticket sales were “very weak” in his Substack blog on Thursday. The more competitive the game, the more money will be made and the competition will not decrease.
All of this affected Haney in more than just his pocket. Garcia’s actions, both true and fictional, greatly diminished Haney’s reputation when he defeated him.
A year ago, Gervonta Tank Davis was credited with being the “new face of boxing” when he stopped Garcia with a body shot. If Haney did the same to a mentally ill boxer, he would be awarded a star award.
It was perhaps the greatest moment of Haney’s career so far – a decisive victory over a talented and popular opponent who was at the peak of his fitness. But he denied that possibility. It’s almost a win-win situation.
I mean, boxing fans count down the greatest hits of Lennox Lewis’ Hall of Fame career and mention “Oliver McCall’s 5th KO”? The resulting results are considered here. If Haney does what Haney usually does, winning on lopsided counts in what Jim Lampley calls “low-risk” fashion, his last eight fights will all be the 12-round distance – widely criticized for his inability to knock anyone out. broken store.
If Haney beats Garcia he won’t get credit because Garcia won’t fight.
Garcia’s Behavior Slaps Potential Haney Win With An Asterisk In Advance https://t.co/ZjADv9mFBp
— BoxingScene.com (@boxingscene) April 19, 2024
The only situation where Haney won and got credit was Garcia looking good for a few rounds, admitting to everyone that he was going to give it his all, and then Haney beat him, preferably by knockout. Under these conditions, the asterisk remains, but in a lowercase font. In other cases, “*” is greater than “W”.
Unfortunately, boxing fans can find a way to put a small asterisk to victory. If a boxer loses, he is good, so you might think that the boxer who is beating him is very good.
Even if two of the greatest displays of boxing power I’ve ever seen were able to draw stares from die-hard boxing fans, it couldn’t be better. . I mean Bernard Hopkins KO 12 Felix Trinidad on September 29, 2001, and Terrence Crowe on July 29, 2023 Terence Crawford KO 9 Errol Spence. This is the master of the two boxers, Picasso. Some boxing fans are looking for ways to turn their noses and shoulders up and start pointing out mistakes.
Trinidad? Come on, Oscar shows the picture to everyone. A warrior with one left foot and one right foot follows this. Additionally, he weighed 154 pounds in his previous two games. The 9/11 crisis disrupted his training. Also, his entire career was built on inaccurate hand wraps, and he had no advantage over Hopkins.
The butter? He lost weight, didn’t really recover from the match, couldn’t beat Mikey Garcia Jr., and was in trouble because Eminem didn’t bring him to the ring. Are some of these ridiculous stories true? Absolutely. But if Trinidad is just a liar, why is he so good with so few players picking Hopkins to win? If Spence is so easy to follow, why are the weights of every fight so close and why can’t anyone predict a single fight?
Again, Trinidad is too small to win and Spence is too big to win. You can’t have the best of both worlds. But people try to do that because… well, because when someone loses a fight, they have to have a better reason – “That guy is really good at boxing.”
No victory in boxing history is impenetrable. Tyson ignored it and gave Enswell a rubber glove. Sugar Ray Leonard for Tommy Hearns? It turns out that Hearns is a bit silly. Is Roberto Duran better than Leonard? Ray was fighting the wrong fight. Joe Frazier over Muhammad Ali? “The Big One” is still shaking off the rust of exile. Max Schmeling for Joe Louis? Yes, Lewis will be great, but he’s not the finished product yet.
It would never appear that the boxer who lost was a leader and brought what he thought was his best game, and the boxer who beat him should be given all the credit. The combination of contrarianism and revisionist history is a powerful combination. Before you know it, you’re telling the world that Anthony Fauci has discovered AIDS. This is bad news for Devin Haney. If someone were to put a star on top of a weak-willed champion, then Haney would be shocked.
Garcia is a skilled boxer, quick and explosive, and has developed solid skills during his long career (he has outpointed Haney three times in six attempts). But he’s not Trinidad, or Spence.
The question marks surrounding Garcia’s government leading up to this fight are completely false and appear to be a form of mental retardation.
Honestly, Haney’s win should be marked with an asterisk. Of course, this is not Haney’s fault. But this is true. Garcia was more talked about before this fight, and there’s a good chance he’ll continue to be a big talking point after this fight is over. Haney’s path to victory was narrow, but he received awards, honors and attention.
Either he loved Garcia’s work or he hated it. Or maybe both.
