Ryan Garcia pulled off an early front-runner for Upset of the Year against Devin Haney on Saturday night, defeating him via majority decision (112-112, 114-110, 115-109) in an instant classic at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Garcia relied on his powerful left hook to drop Haney three times – in the seventh, 10th, and 11th rounds – en route to handing Haney his first career defeat.
Haney remains the WBC junior welterweight champion after Garcia missed weight by 3.2 pounds Friday, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman confirmed on X.