Friday’s weigh-in was a costly one for Ryan Garcia.
The controversial boxer came in at 143.2 pounds for his Saturday bout with WBC junior welterweight titleholder Devin Haney — making Garcia ineligible to come away with the belt.
While the fight will go on, according to DAZN, Garcia will enter the ring lighter in at least one way: He must make good on a bet he made on Thursday, telling Haney he’d pay $500,000 for every pound he came in over the 140-pound limit — making for a hefty $1.5 million check.
According to Haney, Garcia made good on the wager.
Garcia, 25, seemed unconcerned as he took to X.
“I feel great and I got a 3 pound advantage. Let’s gooo hahahahaa. Winners do what they have to do I’m still sharp,” he wrote, adding, “My balls got to heavy and back gained to much muscle from carrying the promo. And my fingers got stronger from all the tweets damn.”
It’s the latest wild turn for the ballyhooed bout, with the combatants getting into a scuffle atop the Empire State Building earlier this week.
That pre-fight kerfuffle reportedly led the Mets to cancel the duo throwing out the first pitch ahead of a game at Citi Field.
“The Mets just wasted three hours of our lives to say at the end we can’t throw the pitch for whatever reason … there was no reason, they kicked us out for no reason,” Garcia said in a video as walked out of the Queens stadium. “I’m personally gonna say f–k the Mets. Don’t ever go to a f–king Mets game again. F–k the Mets!”
The Mets declined comment on the situation — the latest in Garcia’s concerning behavior in recent weeks.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KO) and Haney (31-0, 15 KO) will take their festering feud into the ring Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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