Tim Bradley thinks Devin Haney’s decision to file a lawsuit against Ryan Garcia for testing positive for a PED is only making things worse for him instead of improving the situation.
Bradley says Haney is wasting his money and his time by suing Ryan (23-1, 20 KOs) over their April 20th fight, which he lost by a 12-round majority decision in Brooklyn, New York. People won’t want to work with Haney after this, and that would be the ruin of his career. Burn, baby, burn!
The former two-division world champion Haney’s value has already dropped since his loss, but things could be worse if promoters and their fighters treat him like a leper, who see him as litigious and unable to come to grips with a loss.
Bradley points out that Ryan was already fined one and a half million dollars and suspended for a year by the New York State Athletic Commission for testing positive for Ostarine.
It’s already working against him, with Ryan saying he’s not going to give him a rematch. So unless he changes his mind, that’s a big payday Haney is missing out on because of his lawsuit. That puts more pressure on Haney to win because if they don’t, there will be no Ryan rematch and being treated like he has the plague by fighters and their promoters.
“This is the softest [stuff] I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Tim Bradley to Probox TV about Devin Haney’s lawsuit against Ryan Garcia. “Who’s going to want to fight you and give you that payday? The blowback was the million dollars they took from him.
“The million and a half dollars they took from him, and then the year suspension. The year off. That’s what they gave him, and they felt it was fair,” said Bradley about the New York Athletic Commission’s fine and one-year suspension of Ryan for testing positive for the banned PED Ostarine.
“Let’s move forward. Let’s not continue to live in the past. Now, Haney is bringing this back up. I don’t get it. Haney, you’re wasting your time. You’re wasting your money. You’re wasting other opportunities. Everybody is looking at you like you’re crazy,” said Bradley.
Fans are looking at Haney like he’s mentally weak by choosing to sue rather than focusing on getting it back with a rematch. In an interview that Haney gave to Ariel Helwani, he indicated that he would make Ryan pay and then get a rematch. He may find out that he got things wrong with his planning.
“Haney, you were in the fight. You fought the wrong game plan, but now you want to come and sue. It don’t make any sense.
“Ryan Garcia didn’t really train [for the Haney fight]. He was overweight. I was told, ‘He was like 17, 20 lbs overweight that Monday before the fight. He didn’t want to make the weight, Tim. However, he did what he had to do and got down to 143 lbs, he got on the scale, and he gave up the money like he said he was,’” said Bradley.
Ryan looked huge in the week of the fight as if he hadn’t taken off enough weight during camp and was going to have problems getting down to 140. It’s not surprising that Ryan missed weight by 3.5 lbs because he didn’t appear to be training hard in the final two weeks. Maybe Ryan thought he was going to lose and figured it wasn’t worth it to put himself through torture to lose the weight needed.
“Haney is making this even worse and bad for himself. People are not going to support him and be behind him. He just needs to take this whooping that he got and take it like a man and move on, Haney,” said Bradley.
Many fans believe Haney is hurting his career badly with this move, which, if he wins, might not bring the kind of money that he thinks it will. Losing the rematch money is likely far worse for Haney, and being avoided will leave him nowhere. He could end up kicking himself later in life, wracked with regret.
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