Report: Ryan Garcia receives 1-year suspension for failed drug test, 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 tested positive for banned substances following an April 20 bout towards rival Devin Haney. Rafael additionally reviews that Garcia forfeits his official contract purse to Golden Boy Promotions, totaled at $1.1 million, and he should pay a state advantageous of $10,000.

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

The report comes a day after Garcia announced his retirement from on social media, the fruits of months of erratic conduct exhibited by the 25-year-old boxer. Garcia tweeted out quite a few outlandish claims on his social media accounts and ultimately confirmed as much as the Haney battle 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 thrice en path to a win on two of the three judges’ scorecards. A win that has now been scratched from the report books.

Following the report of his settlement turning into public, Garcia’s workforce issued an announcement denying that the fighter has ever knowingly used performance-enhancing medication:

Ryan Garcia was a sufferer of substance contamination, with ranges measured within the billions and trillions of a gram, which supplied no benefit in anyway within the ring.

Ryan, together with his authorized workforce, has resolved this difficulty and firmly maintains his fact: 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 durations, and has by no means had any points. He has maintained an impeccable and clear report all through his profession, considerably elevating and transcending the game of boxing, incomes respect and admiration from thousands and thousands of followers worldwide.

The followers will all the time keep in mind his efficiency towards Haney as a masterclass, and that may by no means be erased.

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

We need to thank the entire followers who’ve continued to help Ryan, not solely throughout the nice moments but in addition by means of the tough occasions that life brings. He shall be again within the ring quickly and higher than ever!

Garcia’s workforce has argued that the fighter’s constructive drug exams are the result of contaminated supplements.

Garcia 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.