By: Sean Crose
Ryan Garcia, who surprised the world final month by typically beating up light-weight kingpin Devin Haney in a profession defining victory now finds himself within the highlight for having had a banned substance in his system earlier than the struggle went down in Brooklyn. Weeks in the past, an A-sample of a drug check Garcia took got here again constructive for the banned substance Ostarine. A follow-up B-sample has now been examined and has supplied the identical end result.
“Cheaters don’t prosper,” Devin Haney’s father Invoice stated on Struggle Hub TV. “They’re ain’t nothing humorous about what the Garcia workforce and what Ryan Garcia did. Count on one thing critical. There’s ramifications on this. We signed up for a good struggle and didn’t get it.” So far as the elder Haney was involved, the distinction between his son and Garcia was black and white. “Devin represents being a clear fighter,” he continued, “a household man representing the group, not dishonest, not utilizing steroids, not being a nasty instance to the children.”
For sure, Garcia’s authorized workforce responded to the check outcomes promptly.
“Ryan Garcia is dedicated to scrub and truthful competitors and has by no means deliberately used any banned substance,” an announcement claimed. “Quickly after being notified of his constructive check, Ryan voluntarily had his hair collected and shipped to Dr. Pascal Kintz, the foremost knowledgeable in toxicology and hair-sample evaluation. That is in keeping with contamination and demonstrably proves that Ryan had not ingested Ostarine over a time frame — the one method he would have had any benefit in any respect within the ring.”
Garcia’s authorized workforce additionally identified the fighter’s earlier historical past of combating clear.
“Ryan has voluntarily submitted to check all through his profession,” the assertion learn, “which have at all times proven damaging outcomes. He additionally examined damaging a number of instances main as much as the struggle in opposition to Haney. All of those components, mixed along with his ultra-low ranges from samples taken on April nineteenth and twentieth (within the billionth of a gram vary), level to Ryan being a sufferer of complement contamination and by no means receiving any efficiency enhancing profit from the microscopic quantities in his system. We’re sure that one of many pure dietary supplements Ryan was utilizing within the lead as much as the struggle will show to be contaminated and are within the means of testing the dietary supplements to find out the precise supply.”
Per ESPN, The New York State Athletic Fee has weighed in, as nicely. “The Fee strictly prohibits the usage of efficiency enhancing medication,” the group claimed, “and works vigorously to uphold the integrity of the game and preserve a degree enjoying discipline…the place violations are discovered, the Fee will take motion.”
