Ryan Garcia has denied taking efficiency enhancing medicine in an announcement despatched by his authorized staff to World Boxing Information.
The Golden Boy star despatched out his protection lower than an hour after author Dan Rafael made the outcomes of his B-sample public. They confirmed the identical ranges of ostarine because the A-sample.
Forward of a ruling by the New York State Athletic Fee along side VADA, Garcia claims complement continuation is accountable for the failures earlier than and after final month’s Devin Haney victory.
Ryan Garcia’s authorized protection
Garcia’s authorized staff, which consists of Paul Greene, Matt Kaiser, Darin Chavez, and Guadalupe Valencia, instructed WBN: “Ryan Garcia is dedicated to wash and honest competitors and has by no means deliberately used any banned substance.
“Quickly after being notified of his constructive check, Ryan voluntarily had his hair collected and shipped to Dr. Pascal Kintz, the foremost skilled in toxicology and hair-sample evaluation. The outcomes of Ryan’s hair pattern got here again adverse. That is in step with contamination and demonstrably proves that Ryan had not ingested Ostarine over a time frame — the one means he would have had any benefit in any way within the ring.
“Ryan has voluntarily submitted to checks all through his profession, which have all the time proven adverse outcomes. He additionally examined adverse a number of instances main as much as the combat in opposition to Haney.
“All of those elements, mixed along with his ultra-low ranges from samples taken on April nineteenth and twentieth [in the billionth of a gram range], 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-up to the combat will show to be contaminated and are within the technique of testing the dietary supplements to find out the precise supply.”
Strict legal responsibility
Whereas the investigation into potential contamination begins, Garcia anxiously awaits how a lot of his profession he might lose. The truth that strict legal responsibility is in play will make Garcia’s protection much more difficult, with Haney pushing for a outcomes reversal or, as a minimum, a no-contest ruling.
Punishments can carry two- and four-year suspensions, which Garcia had beforehand acknowledged he wasn’t fearful about. The 25-year-old promised to launch his personal boxing league and compete there if the NYSAC palms down a prolonged ban.
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