{"id":493125,"date":"2026-03-24T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493125\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:19:08","slug":"terence-crawford-delivers-verdict-on-haney-vs-garcia-rivalry-ahead-of-potential-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493125\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford delivers verdict on Haney vs Garcia rivalry ahead of potential rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Crawford has offered his thoughts on the bitter rivalry between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, reflecting on the controversy surrounding their first professional encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The pair squared off on six occasions as amateurs, with the score reading 3-3 ahead of their 12-round pro contest in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, Haney entered their showdown as the WBC super-lightweight champion, and a sizable favourite, but ultimately suffered three knockdowns before losing a majority decision.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, meanwhile, was not entitled to win the world title after tipping the scales at just over 143lbs, but nonetheless succeeded in pulling off a considerable upset.<\/p>\n<p>His victory was then overturned to a no-contest after it emerged that \u2018King Ry\u2019 had tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance, for which he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd1175e56x7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">handed a year-long ban by the New York State Athletic Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, though, Garcia and Haney have both become world champions at 147lbs by dethroning Mario Barrios and Brian Norman Jr, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It would therefore seem that the two Americans have embarked on another collision course, leading them towards an expected rematch and potential unification clash.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/huJVFuLmpd0?si=_5LKoDF8hw5g4_Gg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan<\/a>, Crawford refrained from offering a prediction and instead highlighted the familiarity and controversy attached to their possible sequel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know each other far too well. I think [Garcia] and Devin fought each other the most [as amateurs] out of all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I just think him and Devin \u2013 the history of it\u2026 Devin came in there over-confident; Ryan being juiced up added a little [controversy].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t take away from him landing the punches he was landing; you can\u2019t take away from the performance\u2026 But, when you\u2019re on steroids, that adds [an element of doubt].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haney dropped and outpointed Norman for his WBO strap in November, while <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/mario-barrios-vs-ryan-garcia-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garcia\u2019s WBC title triumph over Barrios<\/a> told a similar story last month. It is believed that a rematch will be put on ice for the time being, with Haney targeting another of the division\u2019s champions in Rolando Romero this May and Garcia expected to fight around a similar time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has offered his thoughts on the bitter rivalry between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, reflecting on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-493125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}