NEW YORK – Ryan Garcia couldn’t believe what he was watching the night of March 1.

Gervonta Davis’ rival saw the unbeaten WBA lightweight champion take a knee early in the ninth round, as did everyone else with working eyes. Garcia wondered what was happening, however, when referee Steve Willis ignored what should’ve been ruled a knockdown and allowed Davis’ co-trainer, Calvin Ford, to wipe his face with a towel because Davis claimed a product placed on his hair during fight week went into his eyes and blurred his vision.

A replay glitch, according to what New York State Athletic Commission executive director Matt Delaglio told The Ring, then prevented Ricky Gonzalez, the NYSAC’s replay official seated ringside, from reviewing footage of what obviously should’ve counted as a point deduction that would’ve favored Lamont Roach.

Willis would also have been within his right to disqualify Davis for having his trainer step up on the ring apron when timeout had not been called during the ninth round at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The heavily favored Davis (30-0, 28 KOs, 1 NC) and Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs) fought to a 12-round majority draw. Had Willis counted the abovementioned knockdown in Roach’s favor, he would’ve won on the scorecards.

With his own main event scheduled for Friday night in Manhattan’s Times Square, the 26-year-old Garcia wants to know exactly what is allowed in accordance with NYSAC rules.

“Horrible. Like I said in my Tweet, it’s nothing against Tank, it’s nothing against anybody,” Garcia, who will battle Rolando “Rolly” Romero, told The Ring. “It’s the rules of boxing. You know, if that’s allowed then I’m gonna do that in the ring if I feel like I’m uncomfortable. You know? I’m gonna just take a knee. Did Muhammad Ali take a knee when he had the thing with Sonny Liston? You know, that famous thing [in February 1964] when [Liston allegedly] put something on his gloves. It caused burning [in Ali’s eyes], but he didn’t take a knee because you can’t take a knee.

“I don’t know what they’re gonna do in that situation, but their excuse for not being able to get to the replay, to me, sounds fishy because they showed the replay live on air. How you gonna show the replay live on air and then not there? They obviously had the technical abilities to do that, so I don’t know.”

The NYSAC suspended Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs, 1 NC) for a year and fined him $1.2 million because he tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance, following his last fight – a 12-round, majority-decision victory over rival Devin Haney last April 20 at Barclays Center. The Victorville, California native will fight for the first time in nearly 54 weeks when he meets Romero (16-2, 13 KOs) in a 12-round welterweight bout DAZN Pay-Per-View will stream as part of a four-fight card, The Ring’s “FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves” event ($59.99 in the United States).

Haney (31-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC), a former fully unified lightweight champ from Henderson, Nevada, is set to oppose Jose Ramirez (29-2, 18 KOs) in the 12-round co-feature Friday night. If Garcia gets past Romero and Haney beats Ramirez, a former WBC/WBO 140-pound champ from Avenal, California, Garcia and Haney have agreed to partake in a rematch sometime in October.