SAN DIEGO – Less than a mere week ago, it appeared the Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney rematch was a fait accompli bound to stand as the most important boxing match of the fall.

Now, it appears dead.

Garcia promoter Oscar De La Hoya told BoxingScene Thursday that, “I’ll never, ever put Devin in with one of our guys.”

Asked whether that decision was connected to Haney’s evasive showing against De La Hoya fighter Jose Ramirez Friday, the promoter’s running feud with Haney father-manager-trainer, Bill Haney, or the fact that Haney sued Garcia for battery following their April 2024 no-contest in which Garcia knocked down Haney three times but then submitted three positive PED test results, De La Hoya said, “All of the above.

“I won’t waste my time with Devin because he runs and will continue running.”

Garcia, 24-2 (20 KOs), was upset by Rolly Romero in the main event of the Saudi Arabia-promoted main event Friday in Times Square while Haney, 32-0 (15 KOs), engaged in a highly inactive showing to defeat former unified 140lbs champion Jose Ramirez by unanimous decision.

Bill Haney took the news in stride, saying he feels De La Hoya fighters – including former lightweight champion Jorge Linares – “are 0-3 against us when you consider Ryan Garcia didn’t beat us clean.”

De La Hoya’s comment was in response to being asked if he’d be interested in sending his fighters Arnold Barboza Jnr or Oscar Duarte to fight Haney before jumping right into a Garcia-Haney rematch.

“He doesn't have nothing left,” Bill Haney told BoxingScene. “Who does he have? We whooped everyone over there and are threatening to whip anything over there. What's over there for us to fight?”

Haney made no apologies for how his son performed Friday, taking the cautious route to avoid the plodding Ramirez and his left hook.

“We’ll continue making our way to the Mount Rushmore of boxing – in our last fight, we used our legs and lateral movement,” Bill Haney said. “Sometimes, you rely on the West Coast offense. Sometimes, it’s defense. It’s all about winning. Every fight is not all roses and every win may not be glamorous, but I can tell you Bill Haney is thrilled, excited and happy about that result.”

Haney said Garcia’s showing against Romero was not surprising given the scrutiny he endured by the drug-testing body Voluntary Anti-Doping Association.

“He’s not King Ryan. He’s Lyin’ Ryan,” Bill Haney said.

“You can tell Oscar that he needs to humble himself, and when he gets his panties out of his ass, he will realize that that is the Devin Haney era, and he better hope that he can find a boxer qualified to get in the ring with Devin because Devin is more accomplished than anybody that he has over there right now.”

De La Hoya went into last week’s bout wondering why Devin Haney retained his father as his trainer after the repeated knockdowns against Garcia and then jumping into the assignment with the veteran Ramirez.

After the victory, Bill Haney took pride in defeating the Golden Boy Promotions team of De La Hoya, Bernard Hopkins and 2024 Trainer of the Year Robert Garcia.

“We gave Ramirez 36 minutes with the whip with a guy that came up from a smaller division in front of all of them, and they didn't cut the ring off or come up with the gameplan to beat us,” Bill Haney said. “It's gonna haunt them when they look back on that fight and realize. We showed [Ramirez] was a straight, up and down fighter with no special effects, and we added Ramirez’s scalp to the resume.”

Bill Haney said he and his son haven’t determined which fighter they are targeting next.

Lance Pugmire is BoxingScene’s senior U.S. writer and an assistant producer for ProBox TV. Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times and then at The Athletic and USA Today. He won the Boxing Writers’ Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for career excellence.