All right, time to hear from Devin Hayning. He talked one on one
with Dan Thursday the evening. We've got that for you right now. Well,
you can start off by just giving me your your reaction to uh I
saw. I guess you've seen the penalty that that New York issue to Ryan
Garcia related to your fight. You gave him a one year suspension. He's
got to forfeit his official contract person of one point one million dollars. He's
got to be randomly tested. He's gonna be find the maximum, which is
ten thousand by the state. Can you give me your thoughts when you heard
about that. First off, you don't want to thank God a lot,
you know, because he's he's a he's a perfect planner. I've said this
before. I said this, you know, before the fight. I said
it after the fight. You know, through this whole process. You know,
I'll just you know, keep praying, and you know, you know
God has answered my answered my prayers. You know, I want to take
the New York State Atlantic Commission UH for for doing the right thing, making
the right decision. You know, we've seen you know, these type of
things happen where you know, the commissions haven't did the right thing, or
you know, politics and stuff have gotten away of the right decision. But
you know, the commission, you know, did the did the right thing.
So I thank them for that. I think, my my my fans,
you know that that you know stood up for me, the people that
stood up for me, the reporters that that stood up with me, you
know, because I've seen a lot of people, you know, you know,
just standing up for for for what's wrong and and and not what's right.
And you know, performance that has been drugs shouldn't be in in in
no sport, in generally, especially boxing. You know, at the end
of the day, you know, every time we step in the ring,
for our lives on the line, and you know, I just wanted to
I just want to be on an even playing field every single time that I
step in the ring. And you know, I'm this has made me advocate
even more for it, you know, and and pushing for it because you
know, it can it could have happened to anybody. You know. I
think I'm thankful that it happened to me because I'm prong enough for it to
to you know, to to be able to take you know, take what
happened and and you know, be move forward or not break me. But
yeah, so one of one of the things about this, Devin, that
that strikes me, and I think this might be lost on some people that
follow this more casually or who are blinded by the reality. This is not
a punishment that the Commission just unilaterally imposed on Ryan Garcia. Ryan Garcia and
his legal team had to agree to this. They did a settlement agreement,
so he accepted the punishment of the one year. He accepted to give up
that much money. What do you what do you think that says about his
guilt or innocence that he accepted that he's gonna forfeit over a million dollars and
take a one year suspension and random testing during the year, et cetera,
along with the other things that they've imposed or you know, they agreed to
us. I mean, you know, at the end of the day,
I mean, it was it was it was it wasn't much he could do.
It was much. It wasn't much fighting that he could that he could
do. You know, his he was you know, he was guilty.
It was proven. The proof was in the putting. So you know,
he said he had no choice but to accept, you know, his punishment.
And I mean, what what what, what can I really say?
But do I do it? I think I think you should have been banned
for even long. I think you should be banned from boxing because and I
think he should have been fined anymore. I think that I should have been
receiving you know, some of the money that that was was was forfeited because
I was the one taking the punches in there. I was the one that
you know was affected, you know, I was the one that I think
actually that you may be getting a piece of that money. That's what I've
been told. But we'll see if that comes to as of as of as
of from my team, from what I've heard from my team, you know,
speaking directly from the Commission, my attorneys and stuff like that. No,
no, okay, let me ask you this though. What is your
perspective and your thought about the fact that they changed the result of this fight
to a no contest. They had the option, and know your lawyer in
a letter to the Commission press for it to be changed to a disqualification,
which they could have done, but in the in the end, they elected
to make it a no contest. What is your thought about the no contest.
I wouldn't have you know, wanted wanted to to to have a you
know, a victory in that way. I'm a real fighter and you know
I've gotten you know, thirty one wins, you know, being stepping in
the ring and winning the right way. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have felt
right, you know, it being a victory on my record when I didn't
win the fight. But the loss does come off your record, but the
loss comes off my record because at the end of at the end of the
day, I wasn't on an even playing field. I wouldn't I stepped in
the ring with a guy that was, you know, that was taking performance
at has been drugs and at the end of the day that it's not even
it's not a fair fight. It was and it wasn't a fair fight.
So I think that it was it was the right thing for us to be
removed, and like I said, I can only think a lot that that
justice was served. So let me ask you about this because you've been in
the news last couple of days, not related particularly to your fight with Ryan,
but the WBC held the purse spid this week for your mandatory defense of
the WBC one and forty pound title against sand Or Martin. There was only
one bidder on the fight. It was one point five million in change,
which relatively speaking, perhaps some people viewed it as maybe a little light on
the numbers, and there was no competition so they didn't have to come with
the big envelope, as they say. My perspective is, if Devin Haney
wins the fight against Ryan Garcia and there is no perhaps, you know,
maybe you do win if there's no peds. You know, we'll never know
for sure. But suddenly now your mandatory is worth a heck of a lot
more that you seem to have been financially injured based on the low perspate amount
because of your loss in the last fight, even though now it's a no
contest. What is that that that has a major impact that seems to me
on your next fight situation. No, it definitely has had a major impact.
You know, I haven't made a million and a half since, you
know, my beginning days of signing with Mattress, right, and I want
to say that was you know, I made one point seven million to you
know, I don't want to speak on that I don't want to speak on
the exact numbers, but you know I haven't made a million and a half
dollars since the beginning stages of of of of you know contract with Mattres,
So why would why would I? You know, it it affected me,
I was gonna say, so it's so. What I'm trying to make some
people understand is that what happened in the fight on April twentieth is not in
a vacuum. It's not just a situation that occurred on that day. It's
impacting your career in your next fight. Also, is that fair to say?
Correct? Correct? Correct? And you know, my, my,
my, my, My lawyers and team will will you know, do what
they gotta do to you know, and to to prove that and in court
and you know against Ryan Garcia and you know we will take legal action,
you know, to to you know, because it has affected me not only
not only you know, my my my financially, but you know mentally everything.
So, uh do you do you think you're gonna take the Sandra Martin
fight under the person or you're gonna try to look to do something different.
I'm going to you gonna spend time with my family. You know this is
everything is just fresh. Everything you know, just this, every problems just
fresh. So we're gonna wear our options and we'll see what's next. Word
Targe w b C. Now we'll see that. I wish you the best
of luck and whatever comes down the road, but I appreciate your time.
Just start. Thank you,