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Bill Haney is confident that a rematch between Devin and Ryan Garcia will still happen despite dropping the lawsuit they have over his positive PED test for the banned substance Ostarine from their fight eight months ago on April 20.
The people decide
According to Bill, the people will decide if there is a Devin vs. Garcia rematch, and they want to see it. So if they want to see it, the networks will. The lawsuit remains. They won’t let this fall.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) seems interested in a rematch and often jokes about wanting to knock Haney down more with his left hook. The only thing that could prevent a second fight is if Devin fights someone else.
Bill believes Devin has proven himself to be a world champion and can fight anyone he wants. However, he has not done so since losing to Garcia, suggesting that he is waiting for his one-year suspension to end in April 2025, hoping for a comeback.
Bill is coy about his desire for the second fight to happen immediately, but he’s easy to read. You can tell by the way he talks that the Garcia rematch is the ONLY fight he and Devin want.
“Devin is a champion. Ryan Garcia is not. Oscar De La Hoya has not been able to make a champion out of Ryan Garcia,” said Bill Haney Fight Hub TV when asked if the lawsuit they have against Ryan will affect his ability to get a rematch.
“Devin wants to fight whoever the people want to see, but he wants it to be on an even playing field. We do it for the people. They’re the ones paying the bills, not the promoters,” Bill said of why they would want a rematch with Ryan.
“If the fans want to see a fight, then there’s a network that wants to do it. The days of Oscar De La Hoya saying whatever he wants are over. He said there was no need for a rematch, but he wasn’t listening to people. It’s him creating false narratives like people didn’t ask for it,” Bill said.
Garcia’s victory dismissed
It’s wrong for Haney to sit outside the ring with Ryan without fighting anyone and for his father, Bill, to frequently talk about the positive test. If Bill thinks that by bringing it up he’s erasing the memory fans have of Devin’s loss, he’s wasting his time.
The New York State Athletic Commission expunged Haney’s loss to Garcia, changing it to a no-contest due to his positive test for Ostarine. But Bill can’t erase the image of Ryan defeating his son from fans’ memories by mentioning positive tests 24 hours a day. This won’t work. He can’t whitewash what happened by constantly dredging it up in every interview and mentioning it on social media.
This only makes Bill and Devin look like losers because the fans don’t believe Ryan won because of Ostarine. They just think Haney has a glass chin, can’t punch and was never that good in the first place.
“The biggest thing is the drug tests,” Bill said when asked if deciding what weight would be the most important thing to decide for a rematch between Devin and Ryan. “He said he was crazy. So if you were crazy enough to do it the first time, then you’ll be crazy enough to do it a second time. This is the stickler, who signs up for a (testing) program of drugs).
“You put something on the table where you would be side A and we would be side B 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.
