After months of erratic conduct, Ryan Garcia returned to the boxing ring on Saturday evening for his extremely anticipated conflict with reigning WBC tremendous light-weight world champion Devin Haney. Initially, Haney was set to place his title on the road, however after ‘King Ryan’ stepped on the size greater than three kilos over the 140-pound weight restrict, Garcia was deemed ineligible to win the gold.
Issues began sizzling within the opening spherical with Garcia touchdown a giant left hand that had Haney rocked early. Garcia poured on the stress however was unable to place his opponent on the mat earlier than the top of the spherical.
Haney collected himself between rounds and got here out wanting sharp over the following a number of rounds. Nonetheless, the tide turned within the seventh with ‘King Ryan’ as soon as once more landed a nasty left hook that sat down Devin Haney for the primary time in his professional boxing profession. Haney answered the rely and hung onto Garcia till the clock ran down.
The following couple of rounds had been pretty aggressive till Ryan poured it on within the tenth and eleventh rounds, placing Haney on the canvas in each. Feeling good about his work, Garcia opted to spend nearly all of the ultimate spherical dancing and taunting his opponent earlier than listening to the official scorecards.
Official Outcome: Ryan Garcia def. Devin Haney through majority determination (112-112, 114-110, 115-109)
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