Boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya says he’s paid Devin Haney sufficient cash regardless of a lawsuit launched by the WBC tremendous light-weight champion.
Haney and his father, Invoice, are pursuing extra cash from the pot after Ryan Garcia examined optimistic for ostarine from their April 20 conflict. Garcia dropped Haney thrice on his method to a call win, just for the New York State Athletic Fee to rule the bout a no-contest.
Having had the loss faraway from his document and seeing Garcia suspended for a yr, Haney is looking for a part of a a million greenback fee despatched to Golden Boy in the course of the ruling. Nonetheless, De La Hoya has no intention of paying Haney any additional cash after Garcia stumped up for being obese on the scales.
“Sufficient is sufficient. Each fighter who has labored with Golden Boy has all the time been paid precisely what they’re owed and given all of the paperwork they have been entitled to. Interval. Any suggestion on the contrary is solely false.
“If the Haneys are nonetheless having bother understanding their contract, we might be completely happy to stroll them by way of it once more,” mentioned De La Hoya.
ESPN analyst Timothy Bradley urged Haney to drop the lawsuit, stating that doing so would solely injury his status additional.
“That is the softest s*** I’ve ever seen in my life. That’s all I’m going to inform you all proper now. I haven’t seen something so tender. That is ridiculous. That is Charmin [toilet paper] tender!
“You understand, take your butt whooping like a person,” he added.
In the meantime, promoter Eddie Hearn, who attended the pre-fight media gatherings regardless of allegedly not representing both fighter, was a goal of Garcia’s wrath.
“Is it time for Eddie Hearn to hold them up, too,” mentioned ‘Kingry.’ He’s like 0-10 now [to Frank Warren after Anthony Joshua lost to Daniel Dubois]. Cheers, Eddie, you’ve got a shoulder to cry on with me.”
He added, “Eddie Hearn is a hypocrite. His fighter Benn examined optimistic for a banned substance and tried to make the struggle nonetheless occur. My struggle nobody knew about something in my system until weeks after my struggle.
“That is some clown s*** by Eddie Hearn.”
De La Hoya reposted the Garcia rant earlier than responding to a fan who claimed the pair would half methods quickly sufficient.
“What the f*** are you speaking about? I’m the perfect within the US of A,” declared De La Hoya.
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