Report: Ryan Garcia receives 1-year suspension for failed drug check, Devin Haney win overturned

Ryan Garcia received’t be combating once more anytime quickly even when he needs to.

Boxing reporter Dan Rafael broke the information Thursday that Garcia will obtain a minimal one-year suspension from competitors as a part of a settlement with the New York State Athletic Fee after he examined optimistic for banned substances following an April 20 bout towards rival Devin Haney. Rafael additionally experiences that Garcia forfeits his official contract purse to Golden Boy Promotions, totaled at $1.1 million, and he should pay a state superb of $10,000.

Maybe worst of all for Garcia, his dramatic majority choice win over Haney has formally been overturned to a no-contest. Haney sees his undefeated file restored to 31-0, whereas Garcia’s reverts again to 24-1.

The report comes a day after Garcia introduced his retirement from on social media, the end result of months of erratic conduct exhibited by the 25-year-old boxer. Garcia tweeted out quite a lot of outlandish claims on his social media accounts and finally confirmed as much as the Haney struggle three kilos over the restrict for his or her bout, which compelled him to pay Haney a $600,000 penalty and made him ineligible to win Haney’s WBC tremendous light-weight title.

Garcia impressed within the contest, knocking Haney down 3 times en path to a win on two of the three judges’ scorecards. A win that has now been scratched from the file books.

Haney reacted to the information on Twitter, thanking the fee for his or her choice however questioning the choice for Golden Boy to obtain the struggle purse.

“Thanks too the fee for doing the suitable factor & making the suitable choice. I don’t perceive how Golden Boy is getting any cash as in the event that they took any punches. They haven’t even spoke out about this PED state of affairs.”

On the opposite aspect, Garcia’s crew issued an announcement denying that the fighter has ever knowingly used performance-enhancing medicine:

Ryan Garcia was a sufferer of substance contamination, with ranges measured within the billions and trillions of a gram, which offered no benefit by any means within the ring.

Ryan, along with his authorized crew, has resolved this difficulty and firmly maintains his reality: he by no means deliberately took any banned substance. It’s merely not in his nature.

For a few years, Ryan has voluntarily submitted to random testing, even throughout out-of-competition intervals, and has by no means had any points. He has maintained an impeccable and clear file all through his profession, considerably elevating and transcending the game of boxing, incomes respect and admiration from tens of millions of followers worldwide.

The followers will at all times keep in mind his efficiency towards Haney as a masterclass, and that can by no means be erased.

Ryan will proceed to raise the game and can be actively concerned in advocating for reform. We hope future modifications in our system will deal with points like this one.

We need to thank the entire followers who’ve continued to assist Ryan, not solely through the nice moments but in addition via the troublesome instances that life brings. He can be again within the ring quickly and higher than ever!

Garcia’s crew has argued that the fighter’s optimistic drug exams are the results of contaminated dietary supplements.

Then Garcia himself took to Twitter to reply on to the report, sustaining that he by no means cheated, vowing to come back again when his suspension is over, and teasing a transfer to the UFC.