Ryan Garcia has been accused of taking PEDs and banned from boxing for a yr, however Dana White believes he is harmless.
Garcia picked himself up after dropping his undefeated report in opposition to Gervonta Davis. The rising star knocked out Oscar Duarte earlier than gorgeous the world by beating Devin Haney, however that win has since been overuled following a failed drug check.
Regardless of insisting that it is none of his enterprise, Dana White got here to the assist of the down on his luck Ryan Garcia. Discussing the matter throughout the UFC 303 post-fight press convention, White was adamant that the boxer hadn’t deliberately taken an unlawful substance.
“Initially, none of that’s any of my enterprise,” White advised media on Saturday. “It isn’t my card. It isn’t my, no matter.”
“You realize I hate speaking about drug testing. However with all of our information that now we have within the years that we have been drug testing, we imagine the individuals who deal with the drug testing that he had [taken] a tainted complement.”
“He didn’t cheat. If he had the precise folks round him and had the precise, you realize, that would not occur.”
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“We’re fairly assured it was a tainted complement. I’ve received no pores and skin on this recreation, I do not give a sh*t. It isn’t my combat, it is none of my enterprise and never my place to even discuss it.”
“From what my staff tells me — and these guys are the f***ing greatest — [it was a] tainted complement.”
Ryan Garcia will now be pressured away from boxing for a yr, although he has vowed to not simply sit round. Based on Garcia himself, he could also be a possibility to combat in both blended martial arts or naked knuckle boxing sooner or later.
Try what Dana White needed to say concerning the Ryan Garcia scenario beneath.
