In what could be a costly fail, Ryan Garcia missed the junior welterweight limit of 140 pounds by a significant amount-- three pounds-- at today's weigh-in in Brooklyn. Although his fight vs. Devin Haney will go on at Barclays Center on Saturday, Garcia is ineligible to win Haney's WBC championship. Garcia was nonchalant on social media, tweeting, "I feel great and I got a three-pound advantage. Let’s gooo hahahahaa. Winners do what they have to do I’m still sharp.. Belts don't feed your family... My balls got too heavy. And [my] back gained too much muscle from carrying the promo[tion]. And my fingers got stronger from all the tweets damn. Why would I force myself to make weight so I can be weak. Nah I’m here to win. That’s it."

 

Haney confirmed the talk that the contracts for the fight contained a stipulation that an overweight boxer would have to pay half a million dollars for each extra pound to the other boxer-- a clause that would cost Garcia $1.5 million if accurate. Haney tweeted after the weigh-in that "Ryan honored the 500k per pound."