Bradley Blasts “Spoiled” Haney, Garcia & Lopez After “Trash” Fatal Fury

Tim Bradley trashed Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, and Teofimo Lopez for their collective poor performances last Friday night at the Fatal Fury event at Times Square in New York. Bradley feels that they just looked like spoiled fighters after Turki Alalshikh paid them huge money for the DAZN PPV event and didn’t show any “passion, drive, or hunger.”

Tim levels much of his criticism at Haney (32-0, 15 KOs), whom he feels fought like he’s suffering from “PTSD,” choosing to run around the ring the entire fight against Jose Ramirez in the co-feature bout. He said Haney looked like former sprinter Usain Bolt with the running he was doing. Bradley felt that Devin should have stood his ground and fought the pressure fighter off of him instead of moving.

“No True Fighter”

“Ryan Garcia ain’t no true fighter at all. That whole year off? You had one that was rehabbing [Ryan], and the other that didn’t rehab [Devin Haney], he put on a s*** show, too,” said commentator Tim Bradley to Fight Hub TV, talking about the dreadful performances by Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney in their respective fights last Friday night on the Fatal Fury event at Times Square in New York City.

I totally agree with you, Tim. You tell him. Ryan showed he’s NOT a “true fighter” last Friday night by folding up the tent and retreating once he tasted Rolly’s power in round two. It was one long, bitter retreat for Kingry for the remainder of the evening after he was dropped hard in round two from a left hook by Romero.

“Haney was supposed to be going back to the drawing board and getting better. Do you think he got better? Absolutely not. Just because you add a Hall of Famer to your team [new coach Shane Mosley], don’t you better. I didn’t see any improvement in Ryan. I didn’t see any improvement in Haney whatsoever.

“Ryan Garcia doesn’t want to be a fighter. All Ryan Garcia wants is the money. That’s it, and Ryan didn’t even want the Devin fight either. That showed me. Not even stepping on the gas and attempting to throw one combination the whole night. Are you kidding me, bro? He didn’t want the Devin fight. He didn’t want to revisit that.”

Haney definitely got worse. You could see that loss to Ryan last April affected him mentally, zapping his self-confidence, leaving him in a state similar to a shell-shocked vet who is jumpy at every sound and unable to get to the front lines. Haney didn’t look like he belonged inside the ring. He seemed afraid of being hit; hence, he ran around the ring for the entire 12-round fight, doing little more than jab and hold.

The warning signs were already there before the Rolly fight that it was only about money for Garcia’s career, because he rushed into a fight against Gervonta Davis in 2023 without taking the step-up fights that contenders usually take to prepare them for an elite-level fighter. He took advantage of his huge social media following to get a fight against Tank that he didn’t deserve, and was in no way ready for.

“PTSD is Real”

“Devin, I felt he didn’t want the fight either with Ryan Garcia, with the way he was fighting, how scared he was,” continued Bradley. “PTSD is a real thing in boxing. It’s a real thing, and that’s what I saw with Devin, watching him run around the ring. I was like, ‘Did this dude train with [former sprinter] Usain Bolt? Who the hell did he train with? He’s running around the ring like he’s crazy.’”

Haney has lost faith in his chin. He doesn’t appear to believe he can take a hard punch without going down again like he repeatedly did in the Kingry fight. Early in the fight last Friday, Devin froze for a second after Ramirez hit him with a clean left hook to the head. It was like he’d lost his senses for a brief moment. That’s not a good sign. He was lucky that the old, grizzled veteran Ramirez was so washed up in his game, because it would have ended badly if he still had anything left.

“I’m like, ‘Settle your feet down and grow some balls, man,” Bradley said about Haney. “Stand there and jab and make sure you back this guy [Jose Ramirez] up off you.’ I was so angry after watching that [Fatal Fury: City of Wolves event]. I wasted my time watching that. That whole show was trash. All the fighters on there don’t have the passion. They don’t have the desire, bro, at all.”

Haney couldn’t “settle” his feet down because he was too worried about getting clipped. Even before he fought Ryan, he was a runner and a clincher with the fossilized Mayweather fighting style. That approach is poison to the eyes for fans in this modern era, which is why Haney and Teofimo Lopez’s performances were so awful last Friday. They don’t fit in this era. You put them back in the early 2000s when the ancient dinosaur Floyd roamed the boxing world, they’d be fine and would be perfect. In this modern era, they didn’t fit.

Ryan just looked like a chicken against Rolly, but he was never good. Garcia is just a one-dimensional fighter who has been matched carefully by his promoters. He is even less of a fighter than Haney, and that’s saying a lot because Devin is a poor copy of Mayweather. He has all the same moves, but he is slower and even more boring than the Old G.

The Spoiled Truth

“Everybody is spoiled nowadays. These fighters are all spoiled, and it’s all to your man [Turki Alalshikh?] that y’all love,” said Bradley, talking about the fighters, Haney, Teofimo and Ryan, being spoiled with the millions that Turki is paying them. “Spoiling these guys. These guys are making way too much money, and I get it. To get that? To get those kinds of performances? Come on, bro. No passion, no drive, no hunger. Straight trash. That was horrible to watch. I was so angry, man. And you can still see that I’m still angry about it.”

Bradley hits on a good point. The Turki is paying Haney, Ryan Garcia, and Teofimo Lopez has resulted in them not fighting with the intensity that they did when they were still hungry, trying to make more of themselves. When boxers become filthy rich, a lot of the time, the negative drawback is that they lose their ambition. They rarely fight, like Terence Crawford and the Charlos, for example, or when they do compete, they put in very little effort, looking lazy and uninspired. Why would they? They’re already wealthy, enjoying their mansions, Ferraris, and trophy wives, so they don’t want to suffer the pain involved with being in a war. They’d rather have it nice back at base camp, getting lots of sleep, and not risking their hides.

Just Entertainment?

“That wasn’t a boxing event. That was, quote unquote, ‘entertainment.’ That was the only thing that was attached to that. Entertainment,” said Bradley about the Fatal Fury event last Friday night at Times Square. “That was no real boxing event. Who the f*** shows up in a car? Who does that? Because it was a flex. That was in a flex in New York state. ‘Look what we can do.’ It wasn’t about the fighters. The fighters were pawns. You don’t know the real agenda.”

The Fatal Fury event had kind of a WWE feel to it, but without the theatrical entertainment of one of those events. At least with them, it’s fun to watch. They give it their all, even though it’s fake. The Big Three, Haney, Ryan, and Teo, just went through the motions. They looked like they were there just for the paychecks. If I were Turki, I’d be furious about the product I got after paying those three gazillions.

“I never want to see something like that again. If you fighters are not passionate about being the best out there, don’t get in the ring. Save my time,” said Bradley.