Ryan Garcia isn’t alone criticizing referee Harvey Dock after making some questionable choices within the combat with Devin Haney this previous Saturday evening.
UFC welterweight Matt Brown unloaded on the referee for his actions – particularly within the seventh spherical. Garcia grew to become the primary particular person to drop Haney after he blasted the beforehand undefeated fighter with a brutal left hook that dropped him to the bottom. Haney struggled getting again to his ft, which led to Garcia going for the kill.
Haney was holding on for pricey life however Dock finally ended up deducting a degree from Garcia to penalize the fighter for punching after his command for a break. Garcia took aim at Dock after the fight, saying the referee was “tripping” and that he “stole” a possible knockout win away from him.
Brown positively agreed with Garcia’s evaluation, particularly in that seventh spherical following the knockdown.
“I didn’t suppose [Devin Haney] was getting up from it,” Brown stated on The Fighter vs. The Author. “That was the one the place he bought up and tackled him and the one knockdown that the referee didn’t name.
“Ryan clocked him, Devin falls onto Ryan, Ryan’s holding him up, Ryan lets him go and the f****** referee, you couldn’t be extra clearly for Devin Haney than that referee in that spherical.”
Brown conceded that referees have an impossibly robust job and Haney and Garcia didn’t make it any simpler on him by repeatedly holding onto one another dozens of occasions all through the combat.
That stated, Brown believes Dock deserves the criticism he’s receiving after that seventh spherical the place he made mistake after mistake following the knockdown from Garcia.
“That was a troublesome combat for him all the best way round, however in that seventh spherical, how he f****** that up so dangerous,” Brown stated. “There’s a degree the place we perceive how arduous of a job they’ve bought and we’ve bought to offer them some leeway. However there’s a degree the place it’s like that’s some bulls***. Try to be fined for that one motherf*****.”
Ultimately, Garcia obtained the one level deduction within the combat for the punch after the break however Brown says the referee ought to have taken higher management of the scenario even when he was most likely in for a protracted evening throughout a grudge match between two boxers who clearly didn’t like one another.
“A lot of the combat, I feel he may have been a bit bit tougher about holding onto one another,” Brown stated. “He by no means docked a degree, notably for Devin Haney holding however I feel Ryan was holding rather a lot, too, and attempting to make it appear like Devin was holding.
“It was a troublesome job for the referee. That was an unsightly combat. That was a troublesome combat for him all the best way round.”
So far as the consequence goes, Garcia secured a majority resolution win based mostly primarily round three knockdowns in rounds 7, 10 and 11. Outdoors of that, Garcia largely bought outboxed by Haney however Brown expects that was precisely the sport plan the 25-year-old fighter from California had in thoughts your complete time.
“You [saw] it play out within the combat,” Brown stated. “[Garcia] was banking on the large shot. He wasn’t outboxing Devin Haney by any stretch. Devin Haney was outboxing him. That’s how the combat grew to become virtually even. However he knew that his energy was what’s going to win him that combat. The motherf***** was proper!.
“What sucks about it, too, Ryan is an effective boxer. He really has good boxing, but it surely’s like he didn’t even attempt on Saturday towards Devin. He didn’t even attempt to field him. I feel he knew Devin was the higher boxer, and he knew that wasn’t an excellent sport plan. However a number of the foolish issues like turning his again on the shoulder roll and the fixed holding, punching off the break, a lot of that. It’s such an unsightly combat. It was like the best ugly combat I’ve ever seen in my life.”
It might not have been fairly however Garcia nonetheless managed to attain three knockdowns to assist him safe the win over Haney. The victory now stands as the largest accomplishment in Garcia’s profession, and Brown lauds him for getting the job accomplished simply as promised.
“I feel that’s what finally bought Ryan Garcia the win — he pulled Devin into an unsightly combat,” Brown stated. “You possibly can inform when the combat began getting uglier and uglier, it was favoring Ryan massive time. When it was a pleasant, clear combat, boxer versus boxer, Devin was smoking him.”
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