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 the 20th. April.
The people decide
According to Bill, 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 make it happen. The trial is settled. They will not drop that.
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 get in the way of another match is if Devin fights someone else.
Bill feels that Devin has proven that he is a world champion and can fight anyone he wants to. However, he hasn’t since losing to Garcia, suggesting he is waiting for his one-year suspension to end in April 2025, hoping to get a rematch.
Bill is reticent about his desire for the second match to take place immediately, but he is easy to read. You can see how he talks about the Garcia rematch being 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,” Bill Haney told Fight Hub TV when asked about the lawsuit they have out on Ryan, will affect their ability to get a rematch.
“Devin wants to fight whoever the people want to see, but he wants it on equal terms. We’re doing it for the people. They’re the ones paying the bills, not the promoters,” Bill said of why they wanted a rematch with Ryan.
“If the fans want to see a fight, there’s a network that will put it on. The days of Oscar De La Hoya saying whatever he wants are over. He said there’s no need for a rematch, but he’s the one who doesn’t listen to the people. He’s the one who creates false narratives as if the people aren’t asking for it,” said Bill.
Garcia’s win disallowed
It’s a mistake for Haney to sit out of the ring with Ryan without fighting anyone, and for his father, Bill, often talks about the positive test. If Bill thinks that by mentioning it he’s erasing the memory fans have of Devin losing, he’s wasting his time.
The New York State Athletic Commission expunged Haney’s loss to Garcia and changed 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 citing positive tests 24/7. It’s not going to work. He can’t whitewash what happened by constantly elaborating on it in every interview and mentioning it on social media.
It makes Bill and Devin seem like sore losers because fans don’t believe Ryan won because of Ostarine. They just think Haney has a glass chin, can’t hit, and was never that good in the first place.
“The biggest thing is drug testing,” Bill said when asked if deciding what weight would be the biggest thing to decide for a Devin-Ryan rematch. “He said he was crazy. So if you were crazy enough to do it the first time, you’ll be crazy enough to do it a second time. It’s the stickler that he joins a [drug testing] program.
“You put something on the table where you wanted to be the A side and we wanted to be the B side 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.
