The Hall at Live Casino

DAZN NEW YORK — Ryan Garcia chugged a “nice ass beer” and promised to meet Devin Haney in the center of the ring after badly missing weight for Saturday’s bout in Brooklyn. Garcia missed weight by 3.2 pounds at Friday’s official weigh-ins, tipping the scales at 143.2 pounds and rendering him ineligible to win Haney’s super lightweight title. Garcia confirmed Friday afternoon that he gave Haney $1.5 million because of his weight miss. Watch the chaos of the final Haney vs. Garcia faceoff above. “I just said, meet me in the f****** center of the ring like you [promised],” Garcia said after the heated faceoff. “I gave you your money, you better give me my f****** money. You want that center of the ring? Let’s f****** do it.” “He’s very unprofessional. I’m a true professional,” Haney said. “And I told him yesterday, his antics will betray him, and this is just the start. Tomorrow, the world will see that I’m levels above this average fighter.” Haney vs. Garcia takes place Saturday at the Barclays Center.

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images At the Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia weigh-ins for Saturday’s fight, Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia will step onto the scale Friday afternoon in New York City. Haney hit 140 pounds, the championship limit for their main event showdown for Haney’s WBC super lightweight title, but Garcia was over by 3 pounds. Haney vs. Garcia ceremonial weigh-in video will be at 2 p.m. ET. Check out Haney vs. Garcia weigh-in results below. Main card (DAZN, PPV.com at 8 p.m. ET) Devin Haney (140) vs. Ryan Garcia (143.2) Arnold Barboza Jr (139.4) vs. Sean McComb (139.4) Bektemir Melikuziev (167.8) vs. Pierre Dibombe (166.6) John Ramirez (114.2) vs. David Jimenez (114.8) Charles Conwell (153) vs. Nathaniel Gallimore (153) Prelims (DAZN at 4:35 p.m. ET) Sergiy Derevyanchenko (167.4) vs. Vaughn Alexander (167.4) Darius Fulghum (167.4) vs. Cristian Olivas (167.4) Jonathan Canas (137.6) vs. Marcus Bowes (140) Amari Jones vs. Armel Mbumba-Yassa Kevin Newman II vs. Eric Robles Shamir Canal vs. Pedro Borgaro

Andrey Koreshkov and Magomed Umalatov headline PFL 3 in Chicago. | PFL MMA Fighting has PFL 3 results for the Koreshkov vs. Umalatov fight card and more from Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Ill., on Friday night. In the main event, Andrey Koreshkov and Magomed Umalatov will clash in a welterweight contest. Brendan Loughnane and Pedro Carvalho will compete in a featherweight contest in the co-main event. Check out the PFL 3 results below. Main card (ESPN/ESPN+ at 9:30 p.m. ET) Andrey Koreshkov vs. Magomed Umalatov Brendan Loughnane vs. Pedro Carvalho Logan Storley vs. Shamil Musaev Gabriel Braga vs. Justin Gonzales Goiti Yamauchi vs. Neiman Gracie Bubba Jenkins vs. Kai Kamaka III Prelims (ESPN+ at 7:30 p.m. ET) Adam Borics vs. Enrique Barzola Timur Khizriev vs. Brett Johns Laureano Staropoli vs. Murad Ramazanov Don Madge vs. Brennan Ward Tyler Diamond vs. Otto Rodrigues Romain Debienne vs. Thad Jean

Goiti Yamauchi suffered a knee injury against Michael Page | Lucas Noonan, Bellator MMA Football star Ronaldo’s career was in jeopardy in 2002 after a series of devastating knee injuries kept him sidelined for months, but he dug deep to come back and score eight goals to lead Brazil to win its fifth World Cup title. Two decades later, Ronaldo’s comeback inspired Goiti Yamauchi’s return to MMA in 2024. Yamauchi, who was only 9 when Ronaldo scored twice in the 2002 World Cup final against Germany, suffered a gruesome knee injury in March 2023 when his patella tendon ruptured due to Michael Page’s kick seconds into their Bellator 292 fight. “We were very upset at the time, but I kept positive thoughts that I would come back from that, and come back stronger,” Yamauchi told MMA Fighting. “My coach ‘Alemão’ pushed me hard. I asked him if it really was the same injury Ronaldo had and how long it took for him to recover. He was like, ‘I don’t know [how long], Goiti, but he became world champion a year later, so don’t worry.’ That encouraged me a lot.” Yamauchi said the recovery process was shorter than expected and he made the most of the time off to heal his body and mind. Bellator was absorbed by PFL over that time, and now Yamauchi enters the 2024 PFL welterweight season “in my prime,” set to face Neiman Gracie in a battle of Bellator veterans for the first match of the season Friday in Chicago. Yamauchi and Gracie fought once before inside the Bellator cage, and Yamauchi won via second-round knockout. “A lot has changed since,” Yamauchi said. “I don’t know about him, but I’ve changed a lot. I know I won’t be facing the same Neiman, and rest assured that he’s not fighting the same Goiti. This Goiti is 1,000 times better now.” Gracie rebounded from that first defeat with a decision win over Dante Schiro in February 2023. Yamauchi vows to hunt for the finish in Friday’s rematch and secure extra points for the PFL regular season. “We’ll be ready for whatever comes, but I’ll give my best not only to win, but to finish him,” Yamauchi said. “If you look at my record, you’ll see that I’m always going for the finish, I don’t like to go to a decision. I want to end the fight as soon as possible, and I’ll pressure him to end it early.” The 2024 PFL season features plenty of names that were brought in from Bellator, and Yamauchi looks forward to a dream fight with former interim Bellator champion Logan Storley for the $1 million prize later this year. “I would really love to do this final against Logan Storley,” Yamauchi said. “I’m clearly more experienced than him but he was an interim champion before in Bellator and put on great fights against great athletes. I’ve been asking for this fight for a while, that’s why I would like to fight him in the final.”

Ryan Garcia will square off against Devin Haney on Saturday night. | Photo by Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy/Getty Images The Haney vs. Garcia fight card is for the Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. On Saturday night, Haney puts his WBC super lightweight title on the line against Garcia in the pay-per-view main event. It will be a 12-round fight. Haney (31-0) competes for the first time this year after picking up unanimous decision victories over Vasiliy Lomachenko and Regis Prograis in 2023. Garcia (24-1) suffered the first loss of his career against Gervonta Davis last April (via seventh-round TKO), but bounced back to defeat Oscar Duarte via eight-round TKO this past December. Check out the Haney vs. Garcia fight card below. Main card (DAZN, PPV.com at 8 p.m. ET) Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia Arnold Barboza Jr vs. Sean McComb Bektemir Melikuziev vs. Pierre Dibombe John Ramirez vs. David Jimenez Charles Conwell vs. Nathaniel Gallimore Prelims (DAZN at 4:35 p.m. ET) Sergiy Derevyanchenko vs. Vaughn Alexander Darius Fulghum vs. Cristian Olivas Jonathan Canas vs. Marcus Bowes Amari Jones vs. Armel Mbumba-Yassa Kevin Newman II vs. Eric Robles Shamir Canal vs. Pedro Borgaro