A letter by Devin Haney’s authorized group asks the New York State Athletic Fee for Ryan Garcia to be ‘disqualified and severely punished.’
Patrick C. English despatched the hand-signed doc on Might 31 as Haney seeks to have the results of his April 20 loss overturned following constructive drug assessments. VADA flagged Garcia for the banned substance ostarine in samples taken on April 19 and April 20, both aspect of his choice triumph.
Haney, who suffered his first defeat in the course of the bout at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, New York, is combating to avoid wasting his unblemished document.
Within the letter, of which World Boxing Information obtained a full copy, English requested the eye of Matthew Delaglio, Appearing Director of the New York State Athletic Fee, plus Dr. Nitin Sethi, Chief Medical Officer, and Samantha McEachin, Counsel for the NYSAC.
A part of the doc factors to 2 statements launched by Garcia, through which he claims innocence as a result of testing of hair follicles and dietary supplements.
English states: “Over the previous few days, there was a flurry of what we take into account to be orchestrated releases from Mr. Garcia and his authorized group. It’s utterly apparent that they’re looking for to reduce his culpability in a deceptive and troubling approach.”
He concluded: “For the explanations set forth in my letter of Might 11, as supplemented herein, Mr. Garcia needs to be disqualified and applicable, however extreme punishment needs to be levied upon Mr. Garcia. Respectfully submitted on behalf of Devin Haney.”
Garcia shared a World Boxing Information story on the complement assessments, which acknowledged that contamination was the rationale for ostarine in his system. Nonetheless, that will not clarify the shortage of ostarine within the hair samples, which WBN completely revealed Garcia’s group took on Might 17, 4 weeks after the combat. If contamination had been the case, Garcia’s hair would nonetheless have had traces of ostarine and never zero particles, as claimed.
There’s additionally the issue with the dietary supplements being open when examined, finally making them inadmissible. Garcia’s group ought to have despatched the identical batch quantity for testing in sealed, untouched bottles.
All this doubt places query marks over the entire state of affairs, which Haney’s group needs to make the NYSAC doubly conscious of for the WBC tremendous light-weight champion’s sake. Haney believes he ought to by no means have suffered a reverse in opposition to Garcia and seemingly received’t cease till a extreme punishment will get handed down.
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