Ryan Garcia has agreed to pay WBC gentle welterweight champion Devin Haney a cool $500K per pound if he’s over the 140-lb restrict at Friday’s weigh-in for his or her struggle on Saturday night time. Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) shook arms with Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) on the wager. What’s Ryan pondering?
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A One-Sided Gamble
This looks like a foolish one-sided wager, the place solely Haney stands to achieve cash, not Ryan. It’s a weasel transfer, and Ryan is loopy to wager on this. Haney will get richer if he wins the belt, whereas Ryan will get nothing. This can be a charity wager.
The one means this wager would make sense is that if Ryan have been to get some cash for making weight. In any other case, what’s the purpose? This can be a idiot’s wager.
Haney’s the One Packing on the Kilos
Haney is the one who has points with weight, with him rehydrating to 165 lbs. The wager ought to have been for Ryan to insist on Haney not going over 155 when he rehydrates, which continues to be a heck of quite a lot of weight, taking pictures up 15 lbs from 140, however not almost as insane as going up 25 lbs to 165.
Ryan needs to be capping Haney’s rehydration weight to 155 lbs. It will nonetheless be a weight benefit for Haney, however not as obscene as going as much as 165 and strolling into the ring as a glorified tremendous middleweight on the night time.
Deja Vu: The Gervonta Davis Debacle
It simply looks like Ryan is performed once more, identical to he did when he agreed to the load stipulations for his struggle towards Gervonta Davis final 12 months. Ryan would have nonetheless gotten that struggle with Tank, even when he’d mentioned no, however he agreed anyway and ended up drained and stopped.
Ryan appears so gullible. His finest with Haney is not sensible in any respect except there’s one thing for him to achieve in taking it. If Ryan loses $500,000 due to his poor enterprise choices, it might be a disgrace.
