Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney return to the ring on Could 2 at Instances Sq. in New York. Each fighters step by the ropes for the primary time since going through one another a yr in the past in Brooklyn.
Garcia (24-1, 1 NC) of Victorville, CA and San Francisco’s Haney (31-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) squared off final April with Haney’s WBC tremendous light-weight title on the road. Garcia, nonetheless, was ineligible to carry the belt, as he missed weight by 3.2 kilos.
The scheduled 12-round contest went the complete distance. On the evening of the occasion, Garcia took the victory by majority determination with scores of 112-112, 114-110, and 115-109. Over the course of the battle, he despatched Haney all the way down to the canvas 3 times – within the seventh, tenth, and eleventh rounds. Within the seventh spherical, Garcia was deducted a degree for punching on the break.
Garcia’s victory was later overturned to a No Contest as a result of a failed drug check.
Battling it out on Friday in Instances Sq., Ryan Garcia takes on former WBA tremendous light-weight champion Rolando Romero (16-2, 13 KOs) of Las Vegas. Former two-division champion Devin Haney faces former unified 140-pound champion Jose Ramirez (29-2, 18 KOs) of Hanford, CA. Each bouts are scheduled for 12 rounds at welterweight.
If Garcia and Haney succeed of their subsequent fights, the 2 are anticipated to fulfill in a rematch at a future occasion.
