Ryan Garcia missed the 140 pound weight limit at the weight in for his fight with Devin Haney. This fight was scheduled to be a championship fight for Haney’s WBC light welterweight title. But since Garcia missed weight being 3 pounds over, the bout will no longer be for the title.
Yesterday Haney issued a weight challenge to Garcia, betting that whoever is overweight pays $500,000 per pound. Garcia agreed to the terms with fake confidence that he was going to actually make weight. Haney tweeted that Garcia did honor the bet and paid the extra 1.5 million for the extra weight and the fight will resume as a non title fight.
Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia agree to a $500,000 per pound bet if either man is over the 140-pound limit on Friday 💰🤝#HaneyGarcia pic.twitter.com/dItboriMja
— MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) April 18, 2024
This is another incident for Ryan Garcia, that has boxing fans questioning how serious he is about fighting right now. Coming in overweight is considered unprofessional but coming in 3 pounds over is showing fans that they might just be right. Furthermore in order for Garcia not to lose fans, he has to have a good performance on Saturday or else boxing fans will waive the white flag on him ever being a contender again.
Ryan Garcia said he would pay Devin Haney $500K for every pound he came in over the agreed fight weight
Garcia was 3.2lbs overweight today and paid up the $1.5M 😳 pic.twitter.com/T7wLyHlo9V
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) April 19, 2024
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