Ryan Garcia tests positive for banned substance in Devin Haney fight, Garcia responds

Ryan Garcia’s saga with Devin Haney is just not over.

Garcia examined optimistic for the banned substance ostarine in two drug checks with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Affiliation (VADA) in relation to his April 20 bout towards Haney. Veteran boxing reporter Dan Rafael first broke the information on Wednesday. Garcia examined optimistic in a pre-fight urine take a look at on April 19 in addition to a post-fight urine take a look at on April 20.

Garcia additionally “screened optimistic however was not confirmed” for 19-Norandrosterone — a metabolite of nandrolone and bolandione — in his April 19 pattern, which is pending additional evaluation by way of Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS).

Ostarine is a banned selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) that has been generally linked to a number of tainted complement instances previously.

Garcia, 25, defeated Haney in an incredibly thorough bout, pulling down the WBC champ 3 times en path to a majority choice win. Garcia responded to the information on Wednesday by vigorously denying any performance-enhancing drug use.

“Faux f*cking information,” Garcia mentioned on X Areas. “Don’t consider these f*ckers, bro. I by no means f*cking took a steroid in my f*cking life. … If they’d this data, they need to’ve launched this earlier than the struggle went down. As a result of why would you let a cheater step into the ring? Proper? Rapidly I win and then you definitely launch it? Appears form of fishy to me. I do know in my coronary heart of hearts I didn’t cheat, so I’m gonna maintain trolling this shit. This shit is f*cking hilarious. On the finish of the day, I’m undoubtedly harmless.

“They’re dishonest by attempting to take my victory. F*ck them. F*ck these motherf*ckers. Inform them to suck my d*ck. I beat Devin Haney honest and sq.. You may suck my d*ck. All you motherf*ckers that say I cheated, you guys can all suck my d*ck. I didn’t f*cking cheat a day in my life. By no means have, by no means f*cking will. I don’t transfer like that. Info.”

Garcia additionally posted a video sustaining his innocence in addition to a photograph of “Ashwagandha root” with the message, “My unhealthy I shouldn’t have took this.”

A number of of Garcia’s posts will be seen under.

Garcia has a 10-day window to request a testing of his B samples.

It’s at the moment unknown how Wednesday’s information will impact the results of Garcia vs. Haney, nonetheless Garcia could possibly be topic to a nice in addition to a suspension, and his victory could possibly be overturned right into a no-contest.

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