{"id":473540,"date":"2026-02-14T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:00:14","slug":"devin-haney-rules-out-ryan-garcia-rematch-for-one-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473540\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney rules out Ryan Garcia rematch for one reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, a fierce rivalry was born between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n

Garcia acted uncharacteristically during the build-up to his title shot against then WBC super-lightweight champion Haney, famously drinking a \u2018beer\u2019 on the scales at the weigh-in whilst coming in 3.2lbs over the 140lb limit.<\/p>\n

As a result, no belt was on the line for \u2018King Ryan\u2019, but the fight went ahead and he delivered a career-best win, dropping Haney on three occasions on route to a sensational majority-decision victory on the scorecards.<\/p>\n

However, in the aftermath, Garcia tested positive for a performance enhancing drug, Ostarine, and the outcome was changed to a no-contest, while Garcia was handed a one-year ban from the sport.<\/p>\n

After serving his time, Garcia returned in a \u2018regular\u2019 world title shot against Rolando Romero last May, but came up short<\/a>, only to be offered a third straight challenge for world honours against Mario Barrios, which takes place next weekend.<\/p>\n

On X<\/a>, Haney was asked whether victory over Barrios could tee up a grudge match rematch between him and Garcia, particularly given that he now holds the WBO belt in the same division.<\/p>\n

Haney explained that he is no longer interested in a second fight after hearing that his rival has opted out of VADA (365) drug testing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShip sailed when he dropped outta VADA testing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrios-Garcia headlines a DAZN PPV card on Saturday, February 21, with two additional world title contests on offer on the undercard<\/a>. It has been confirmed by the WBC that the main event fighters are being tested by VADA, so Haney\u2019s accusation appears to be in reference to the year-round programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, a fierce rivalry was born between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia. Garcia acted uncharacteristically during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-473540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}