Prograis Wants Haney Stripped For Rehydrating To 165 – ‘The Fight Wasn’t Supposed To Happen’

“On the fight night, you don’t know nothing about that. When I was in California, I didn’t know nothing about it. I let it go. Since y’all said it, I have to look into it. “Yes [I want the belt back]. Boxing is so corrupt. I know in my fight with Devin, he was over. In California, you have different rules. You’re not supposed to be a certain weight over the limit. You’re not supposed to be over a certain weight. Devin was over that certain weight. So, literally, that fight wasn’t supposed to happen, and literally, you can’t do that, and it was. That’s the case,” Prograis said 

Weight was also an issue when Haney boxed Ryan Garcia. Ryan missed the 140 limit, coming in 3.2 pounds over. Rather than team Haney requiring Garcia to lose those extra pounds or making him weigh in on the day of the fight, they agreed for Garcia to pay them $500,000 for every pound over. Garcia ended up paying Haney $1.5 million.

Haney vs. Garcia

But since there was no rehydration, Garcia came in at a much healthier weight. He dropped Haney three times on his way to a majority decision win. While the result could get overturned after Garcia failed two VADA tests for Ostarine, it shows the importance of weight classes. For the first time, Haney was fighting someone of a similar size to him. That proved to be the difference, with Haney struggling to adjust. It also played into the narrative that Haney was a weight bully. Prograis was clear that Haney had gotten karma for what he did to him. 

“There were rumors that he [Haney] did IV drips and all that type of…[stuff] and I mean I never did that stuff… in my contract it is illegal and when we fought you were not supposed to come in that big. That was illegal too. Now Ryan did the same thing that he did to me. Ryan did the same thing to him. So for me bro, I think it’s just all karma… Karma comes around for everybody. That’s just how it is. You just can’t get away from karma. You do good, you do bad. Whatever it is karma is going to happen,” Prograis said