American Devin Haney, in a fight with Ryan Garcia, paid for underestimating his opponent, Russian boxer Vladimir Myshev shared this opinion with .
Haney lost to Garcia by majority vote. This defeat was the first in the career of the former absolute lightweight champion. At the time of the fight, Haney held the WBC junior welterweight title. After the fight, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman wrote on social media that Haney would retain the belt because Garcia failed at the weigh-in.
— Boxing does not forgive underestimating an opponent. I’ll be honest, like the majority, I considered Devin Haney the big favorite, but already in the first round it became clear that Garcia was bluffing all this time before the fight, performing incomprehensible antics, talking a lot and shocking the audience. We all bought into it, as did Devin Haney and his team, and they paid for it,” Myshev told .
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