Haney is one boxer that is full of pride, Remember before the Ryan Garcia fight he wanted to be the next Floyd Mayweather or better, and after what happened he cannot move on because his first loss, which is a big embarrassment, is something that haunts him even in his dream.
If Haney is in the right state of mind and he wants to get even, he will just move on box again and win impressively against a tough opponent while waiting for Ryan Garcia to fight again because of a one year ban, He cannot move on unless he beat Garcia in the same fashion as Garcia beat him.
A kind of ego where instead pushing yourself harder and try to reclaim your glory you choose to do it in a shortcut, suing Garcia to get his belt back, something that will lead him to erase that embarrassment in paper but fans and viewers witness that fight and there's nothing he can do to remove that he got defeated in an embrassing way.
Only when they make a rematch and he win even not in same way but a win is a win, not in terms of suing your opponent's after losing a fight.
I see some news and also rumors stating that both fighters are in trouble that they are facing each other, even both of them blame each other but there is no official statement about rematch for them in the future and Garcia himself also stated the same thing where he will not fight Haney again.
I think Garcia wanted to fight Haney again in the future and show that it's no fluke. He was accused and caught with peds in his system although he deny it vehemently but the Athletic commission find him guilty. It was Haney who doesn't want to fight Garcia because of this and obviously can't accept it.
Moreover their previous fight was also filled with drama and maybe that why Garcia prefers not to realize the rematch, now everything is clear and we may not be able to see fight that can really determine who the winner is in the future.
Moreover Garcia has also had some problems such as being fired and also banned from fighting and Haney himself decided to take break and this will be long enough time for them to be able to resolve everything better and there are no problems like what is happening now.
It was a drama that they all feel for Garcia, it short they were all trick by Garcia. Pretending that he had mental issues prior to the fight and that's why Haney was really salty after the first knockdown and wasn't able to recover in that fight. And then the subsequent peds and now Haney is suing Ryan Garcia for punitive damage. But as fighters, if they really want, they should do a rematch again, and then go home with both of them taking big paycheck.