Haney: ‘Remembering faces’ after Garcia loss

Devin Haney posted on Instagram today, telling his followers that he’s “quietly working” and “remembering the faces” of his “doubters.” This bitter message indicates that Haney has been stewing his loss to Ryan Garcia and wants to show people how wrong they were about him.

The humiliating defeat must be hard for former two-division world champion Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) to digest because he is replaying the memory in his head of the three times he fell to Kingry’s left hook in April 20 at the Barclays Center. in Brooklyn, New York.

It must be like an old, grainy movie in Devin’s head, and he probably wishes he had done things differently. Haney’s isolating behavior is a classic example of the shame response of someone who has failed. It could help Haney if he can come back stronger, improved and ready to avenge his loss.

“Working in silence…remembering the faces and names of all the doubters and naysayers! @justtrain
#TheDream,” said Devin Haney Instagram.

blame game

“Absolutely. Whatever happened, don’t give up like Ryan gave up on Tank Davis. So he’s known as a quitter,” Bill Haney told the Dance projectt, talking about Devin not giving up during his fight against Ryan Garcia. “Devin is a warrior.

“It was a combination of Devin not being Devin and him trying to be what the fans wanted to see,” Bill said of why Haney lost to Garcia. “Until then, they said he had no heart and wouldn’t stay in the middle of the ring.

“He (Haney) stood in the middle of the ring with somebody that we didn’t consider Ostarine. We didn’t consider that he would be a lot stronger. One thing about Ostarine is that it helps with recovery. It helps with strength and power. All those things,” Bill said about why Devin lost to Kingry.

The reason Devin lost the fight wasn’t because he was “in the middle of the ring” against Garcia. Where Haney lost the fight was his habit of holding on non-stop, which put him in the firing line of Ryan’s short left hook.

That was where Devin was eating shots. He was reaching or pulling back in his clinch, and that made it easy for Kingry to catch him with the short-control left hook he likes to throw. If Devin’s training team had known what they were doing, they would have warned him not to hold on so long because this style was tailor-made for Garcia.

It may have worked for Haney in his fights against George Kambosos Jr, Regis Prograis and Jorge Linares to hold, but using that same strategy against Garcia was silly. That’s why he lost. How could Bill not know?

wasted time

“It was a great injustice done to a wonderful guy who did nothing but good business. The fans, they’re the ones who buy the pay-per-views. You want to please them. Devin wants to please his games for to go out and fight that way. It wasn’t a winning game plan, but I can still back my man 1000%. He went into it like a warrior, and I couldn’t be more proud of him,” Bill said of Devin.

What is concerning is how long Haney has been out of the ring since his loss to Ryan. All that energy being put into the lawsuit may not pay off for Haney, who is wasting time on his career and may not be worth it in the end. It’s not clear if this is Bill pushing the process, but it’s not good for Devin if he loses a year of his career waiting for the lawsuit to come to an end.