During the Ring Magazine awards, Ryan Garcia spoke with Radio Rahim about Devin Haney seeking a rematch with him and the requirements for that to happen. Here are some highlights of Garcia’s comments on the matter.
Garcia on Haney’s interest in a rematch this year
“No. The only way he’s going to get any respect is to fight me again and try to do better. So I could see why he would (want rematch) but for me, I don’t know. I mean that interests me for sure, I would be down to do a rematch but a lot of things need to play out the way I need them to play out.
“First and foremost he needs to drop the lawsuit if he even wants to have a conversation about it. To me, I thought that was a weak move by him and now he wants to backtrack and say that’s how he’s going to get it back but before he was saying different. But I’m ready to fight him, I already fought him and beat him.”
On Haney insisting on 24-hour random drug testing for a rematch
“We won’t be using VADA, we’ll be using the people I want to use because for some strange reason Bill Haney keeps saying ‘VADA, VADA, VADA, VADA, VADA’ — it’s kind of strange to me. Why can’t I use USADA or any other organization? Seems a little fishy to me that they love VADA and VADA loves them. It’s just weird. Nobody’s asking those questions, I wonder why.
“I just feel like they’re too entangled, I mean it’s a conflict of interest truly. I know in my heart of hearts I’ve never taken steroids in my life and to this day I’ll go down until I die saying I never did…Like that was my best victory and they took it away, so yeah, I’m a little salty about it and I’ll never use VADA again because to me that’s fishy.
“I tested negative all the way through and then all the sudden I’m positive after I beat him? And all the sudden his friggin’ brother posted way before everybody even knew that I was ‘going to test positive’ — nobody’s asking these questions and nobody’s caring so it’s just like absurd and weird to me.”
On his upcoming plans
“It’s looking like I’m going to fight Teofimo Lopez, so that’s good. I’ve seen him today, he’s a little strange but other than that I’m ready to whoop his ass.”
