Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia have a fight to sell, and they are causing a ruckus all over New York City.
The two star boxers are fighting Saturday at the Barclays Center, and they had a number of promotional appearances set for Tuesday.
The drama began at the Empire State Building, where the two jawed at one another atop the Manhattan landmark.
A shirtless Garcia repeatedly asked Haney, “Who’s your punk, bitch?”
Haney proceeded to shove Garcia, and the two had to be separated.
From there, the two were slated to have an appearance to throw out the first pitch at Citi Field before the Mets faced the Pirates, but it apparently got scuttled by the Mets at the eleventh hour.
According to Garcia’s camp, despite Garcia throwing warm-up pitches, meeting various Mets players without issue and “everything running smoothly,” Mets security allegedly had concerns about the incident at the Empire State Building earlier in the day and feared that another altercation would occur on the field and pulled the plug.
Garcia’s camp said that only Garcia, Haney and Garcia’s promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, would be allowed on the field to avoid another fracas and that both boxers were instructed to be on their “best behavior” while on the field.
Garcia’s camp further claimed that Haney was incensed when told the first pitch was not happening and left the stadium, but Garcia was still willing to throw the first pitch himself.
But they allege that the Mets said only De La Hoya could throw the pitch, and when he declined — and was refused an opportunity to speak with team owner Steve Cohen about the matter despite earlier taking photos with him — Garcia and his team decided to leave.
team reportedly pulled his first pitch. Ryan Garcia/X
The Mets declined comment on the incident.
After the rug got pulled on the first pitch, Garcia lashed out at the Mets in a video on X, saying that the team “just wasted three hours of our lives to say at the end we can’t throw the pitch for whatever reason … there was no reason, they kicked us out for no reason.”
“F–k the Mets,” Garcia continued. “Don’t ever go to a f–king Mets game again. F–k the Mets!”
He also promised to “expose the Mets so bad and MLB” in a separate X post. “Mets let Haney in with 12 goons and I could only bring in 1 security and 2 of my film crew.”
Haney, the WBC Super Lightweight champion, is a heavy favorite in the fight.