Bill Haney is confident the rematch between Devin and Ryan Garcia will go ahead despite them dropping their lawsuit over a positive PED test for the banned substance Ostarine from their fight eight months ago on April 20.
The people decide
According to Bell, people will decide if there is a rematch between Devin and Garcia, and they want to see it. So, if they want to see it, the networks will make it happen. The lawsuit stands. They won't drop it.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KO) seems interested in a rematch and often jokes about wanting to drop Haney more with his left hook. The only thing that might hold up a second fight is if Devin fights someone else.
Bill feels that Devin has proven himself as a world champion and can fight anyone he wants. However, he has not done so since his loss to Garcia, suggesting he is waiting for his one-year ban to expire in April 2025, in hopes of getting a rematch.
Bale is shy about talking about wanting the second fight to happen right away, but it's easy to read. You can tell from his talk that a Garcia rematch is the only fight he and Devin want.
“Devin is a champion. Ryan Garcia is not. Oscar De La Hoya couldn't make a champion out of Ryan Garcia,” Bill Haney said. Combat Center TV When asked if their lawsuit against Ryan would affect their ability to get a rematch.
“Devin wants to fight anyone people want to see, but he wants it to be on the mat. We're doing it for the people. They're the ones paying the bills, not the promoters,” Bell said of why they wanted a rematch with Ryan.
“If the fans want to see a fight, there's a network that wants to show it. The days of Oscar De La Hoya saying what he wants are over. He said there's no need for a rematch, but that means he's not listening to people,” Bell said. “It creates false narratives as if people are not asking for it.”
Garcia was denied victory
It's wrong for Haney to sit outside the ring with Ryan without fighting anyone, and it's wrong for his father, Bill, to talk so much about the positive test. If Bell thinks that by mentioning this he's erasing fans' memory of Devin's loss, he's wasting his time.
The New York State Athletic Commission erased Haney's loss to Garcia, changing it to a no-contest due to his positive test for Ostarine. But Bell can't erase the image of Ryan beating his son from fans' memories by mentioning positive tests 24/7. This won't work. He cannot whitewash what happened by constantly mining it in every interview and mentioning it on social media.
This makes Bill and Devin look like sore losers because fans can't believe Ryan won because of Ostarine. They just think Haney has a glass chin, can't punch, and was never good in the first place.
“The biggest thing is the drug test,” Bell said when asked if the weight limit was the biggest thing to be decided in the rematch between Devin and Ryan. “He said he's crazy. So, if you're crazy enough to do it the first time, you'll be crazy enough to do it again. That's the hardcore who signs him up for the (drug testing) program.”
“You put something on the table where you're on side one and we're on side two, that would be an insult. They knew it was an insult,” Bill Haney said of Bob Arum making an offer to Devin to fight Teofimo Lopez.
