Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia – Results & Post-Fight Report

Ryan Garcia scored a superb win at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, as he dropped Devin Haney three times on the way to an impressive majority decision win in their meeting.

The build-up to the fight had been bizarre to say the least, with Garcia showing several strange behaviours, and that culminated to him missing weight by three pounds, meaning that he would be unable to win Haney’s WBC super lightweight title on the night. Haney had reigned as undisputed lightweight champion, and moved up in weight for his most recent outing, a landslide points win against Regis Prograis last December.

Garcia (25-1, KO20) started brightly, troubling Haney (31-1, KO15) in the opening round but Haney responded well, landing with a clean left hook in the third that Garcia took well. A solid right hand was the highlight of the fourth for Garcia, and after quiet fifth and sixth frames, that Haney shaded, the contest turned on its head in round seven. Garcia connected with a whipping left hand that decked Haney heavily, and he scrambled to beat the count. Garcia was now in the ascendency, and troubling Haney with his power, making another breakthrough in round ten, a two-fisted assault forcing Haney to seek refuge on the canvas again. Haney again survived, but seemed fortunate to not be docked a point for holding, while Garcia kept constantly turning his back on the action, and with the fight in the balance, Haney hit the deck for a third time in the penultimate session, a counter left hook felling him.

The bout would eventually go the distance, and one card returned a 112-112 draw, but scores of 115-109 and 114-110 secured a famous win for ‘King Ry’.

On the undercard Arnold Barboza Jr (30-0, KO11) failed to impress, but took the win against Sean McComb (18-2, KO5) via split decision over ten rounds at super lightweight to defend his WBO Intercontinental title. McComb was adjudged a 98-92 winner for one judge, but was overruled by 97-93 and 96-94 tallies for Barboza.

Bektimir Melikuziev (14-1, KO10) took a technical decision win on the card, as his fight with Pierre Hubert Dibombe (22-1-1, KO12) had to be cut short. The doctor inspected Melikuziev’s eye and halted his bout in the eight round due to cuts from an accidental head clash, and he took the WBA Intercontinental super welterweight title by two scores of 79-73, and a third at 78-74.

Sergey Derevyanchenko (15-5, KO10) returned to winning ways, dropping Vaughn Alexander (18-11-1, KO11) on the way to a wide points win at super middleweight.

Super welterweight prospect Charles Conwell (19-0, KO14) remained unbeaten, halting Nathaniel Gallimore (22-8-1, KO17) in the sixth of their scheduled ten rounder.

The interim WBA super flyweight title went the way of Costa Rica’s David Jiminez (16-1, KO11), as he took a points win against John Ramirez (13-1, KO9). Jiminez took the belt by two scores of 117-111, with the final judge returning a 116-112 card.

Kevin Newman II (16-3-1, KO10) stopped Eric Robles (9-4, KO8) in the fourth round at super middleweight, and Amari Jones (12-0, KO11) halted Armel Mbumba-Yassa (10-2-1, KO7) in the sixth of their meeting at middleweight. Darius Fulghum (11-0, KO10) scored a fourth round win against Cristian Olivas (22-11, KO19) at super middleweight, and Shamar Canal (8-0, KO4) took a six round points win against Pedro Penunuri Borgaro (7-2, KO4) at lightweight.

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