'Man's a genius': Viral footage shows boxing star may have fooled ...

Ryan Garcia not only stunned the boxing world, the American may well have hoodwinked everybody ahead of his bout with Devin Haney.

The 25-year-old produced the fight of his life as he floored the previously undefeated WBC super-lightweight world champ three times on route to a unanimous decision victory.

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Ahead of the blockbuster showdown however serious concerns were raised over the welfare of Garcia with many convinced the fight should have been called off.

The controversial boxer sparked concerns with erratic behaviour in public and online. Ahead of the fight he proposed to Australian adult film star Savannah Bond.

He topped it all off at the weigh-in by chugging a drink from a beer bottle on the scales while coming in over the 140-pound weight limit.

But all those concerns fell by the wayside once the bell rang as Garcia proved he was a different beast as he monstered Haney.

Now fans are convinced his pre-fight antics were nothing more than an act with one interview moment going viral.

The clip shows Garcia improvising a song before the camera pans to a seriously unimpressed Haney who utters “I don’t know if Ryan Garcia is taking the fight serious or not”.

Footage of the moment has since racked up millions of views with fans all left believing Garcia produced the greatest troll job of all time.

One user wrote: “Bro exposed the matrix, trolled the f*** out of Haney and won.”

A second wrote: “We all thought it was a reality show and it was a damn fight to him.”

Garcia poured fuel on the rumour mill fire after the fight as he took to social media.

“I know people are so mad. Imagine just imagine a guy that trolled non stop. Beats a P4P fighter and then is just chilling bruh that’s hilarious. Muhhahahahahaha,” he wrote.

Collingwood great and Brownlow medallist Dane Swan was one of many questioning Garcia’s pre-fight antics.

“Ryan Garcia is either the greatest fight promoter since Ali or is proper not well and absolutely shouldn’t be fighting,” he wrote on X in the lead-up.

Swan tweeted after Garcia’s victory: “The man’s a genius.”

After the fight, journalist Ariel Helwani said a lot of people owe Garcia an apology after calling for the fight to be called off over his behaviour in the lead up.

“I’ve been asked a thousand times in the lead up to the fight ‘is it a work, is he acting, is he trolling?’. The truth is none of us know,” Helwani said on DAZN.

“None of us really know what was going on over the last two months, but we know what happened in that ring.

“Ryan Garcia beat up Devin Haney. He gave him the worst beating of his career, it was shocking stuff.

“For the last two months I had to read all the sanctimonious hand wringing online about ‘this should never happen’ and ‘they should stop this’.

“It’s the same thing they said about Tiofimo Lopez last summer and he won that fight and Ryan Garcia won this fight.

“I wonder if all those experts out there, all those people who said this should never happen and that he shouldn’t make that walk. I wonder if you will apologise to him and run back everything that you said about this young man because he is owed that in my opinion.”