Ryan Garcia served up one final little bit of weirdness.
The 140-pound contender, who’s scheduled to face Devin Haney on pay-per-view Saturday at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, misplaced the precise to struggle for Haney’s WBC belt when he got here in 3.2 kilos over the division restrict Friday morning.
Then, on the public (unofficial) weigh-in within the afternoon, he gave professionalism the center finger by eradicating his shirt and chugging down what seemed to be a beer on stage.
He later mentioned on social media that he drank apple juice mixed with glowing water, not beer, adopted by a “HEHE.”
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— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) April 19, 2024
The fighters later confronted off for one remaining stare down, which was intense however comparatively uneventful.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) has been appearing erratically through the lead-up to the most important struggle of his profession, together with a collection of weird and crude feedback on the remaining information convention on Thursday.
He made a wager with Haney on the information convention that both fighter who got here in obese must pay the opposite $500,000 per pound, which implies Garcia owes Haney $1.5 million. And he agreed to pay, which evidently allowed the struggle to go on as scheduled.
Some have expressed concern for Garcia’s wellbeing within the struggle given his mind-set and Haney’s pound-for-pound capacity.
Haney gained his title by shutting out Regis Prograis in his most up-to-date struggle, in December.
The Haney-Garcia struggle is on the market on DAZN PPV.
