Well, all the pedophile, Satan-worshipping, Trump-hating, elite Illuminati space lizards got their way. They stopped Ryan Garcia’s career in its tracks-- all because he loves Jesus.
On Thursday, Garcia’s team reached a settlement with the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) that would see the 25-year-old serve out a one-year suspension, pay the commission a maximum-allowed fine of $10,000 and return his contractual $1.1 million Devin Haney fight purse back to his promoter, Golden Boy. Garcia will also have to undergo random drug testing during the time of his suspension and return clean results as a condition of his future reinstatement. His April 20 majority decision victory over Haney has officially been changed to a no contest.
The punishment represents the strictest sanction ever handed down by the NYSAC for a failed PEDs test.
The fighter and social media presence popped positive for the banned substance Ostarine during testing conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) the day before his bout with Haney and the day after it. The NYSAC recently revealed that the fighter had also tested positive for the prohibited substance in a specific re-testing of his commission-submitted sample screened for Ostarine.
In the Haney-Garcia clash, “King” Ryan would hurt Haney several times, drop him three times, and take a decision that was much closer in the round-by-round scoring than what the physical damage tally would lead one to believe.
Garcia, who not too long ago claimed squeaky-clean status by proclaiming that he didn’t even take nutritional supplements, would blame tainted nutritional supplements for his positive test. That was after accusing SNAC’s Victor Conte of tampering with the testing and then blaming the dark and mysterious “them” for setting him up because he supported Donald Trump.
Garcia’s team would submit samples of his hair to prove lack of malicious intent, despite expert insistence that hair analysis doesn’t overrule the findings of urine testing. They also submitted samples of the supposed contaminated supplements to the testing lab. The samples showed traces of Ostarine, but nothing could really be garnered from that since Garcia’s people submitted opened containers and didn’t include sealed containers from the same lot to actually prove contamination of the product. For what it’s worth, one of the companies accused of selling the tainted supplements, NutraBio, has categorically denied the possibility of Ostarine contamination and claims to have gotten an Ostarine-free test result of the lot in question from an accredited laboratory.
Questions have been raised as to whether the amount of Ostarine in Garcia’s system could've provided any performance enhancing benefit. There's even doubt as to whether the substance, to any extent, would be of real benefit to a fighter.
But a banned substance is a banned substance and Garcia has won no sympathy with the way he's conducted himself and contradicted himself throughout this entire situation. If he's truly innocent, nobody's looked more guilty being innocent.
A day prior to the NYSAC settlement, probably after getting a good whiff of what was to come, Garcia took to social media and announced that he was “officially retired.” Since then, his Twitter timeline has been one long and continuous ‘Good-bye dear boxing...I’m innocent...I’m moving on...You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone...I said I’m leaving...Pay attention to me leaving...I’m done...For real...You’re gonna miss me’ string of laments-- when he wasn’t insulting Caleb Plant’s wife and calling Devin Haney ‘gay’, of course.
The native of Victorville, California had already turned himself into the object of scorn, derision, and/or befuddled bemusement within the boxing community for his rambling, nutty-as-a-squirrel turd social media ramblings throughout the lead-in to the Haney bout. A frenetic and increasingly disheveled Garcia’s rapid-fire obsessing over satanic ritual sexual abuse, abductions, sex predators, aliens, etc. had some questioning his mental fitness and hoping for a mental wellness assessment from the NYSAC. It got so bad that even noted nut job conspiracy theorist Alex Jones posted a social media video encouraging Garcia to reel back the nuttiness.
And when Garcia defied the odds and actually made it to fight week without being committed, he came into the weigh-in 3.2 lbs. over the 140 lb. limit with no intention of trying to make weight. Team Haney would accept a $600K payout from Garcia to let him fight overweight (added to a $1.5 million side bet made during a fight week press conference where Garcia agreed to pay Haney $500K for every pound over the contracted weight). Garcia would also relinquish his right to challenge for Haney’s WBC junior welterweight title.
The Ostarine, missing weight, the non-stop social media craziness (oh, and then the fairly recent felonious trashing of a Waldorf Astoria hotel room) -- that’s a lot of cynical weirdness and absurdity to stomach, even for boxing fans, who see more shittiness in a month of boxing business as usual than a football fan sees in a lifetime.
It’s probably fair to say that, right now, the only pro-Garcia people out there are either staunch, die-hard Devin Haney haters or the weirdos who actually believe that Garcia is fighting a war against Satan and pedophiles.
The kid who fancies himself a hero-- and even posted an AI-generated image where he’s dressed as Superman rescuing Donald Trump from abusive policemen (I shit you not)-- has become something not quite seriousness enough to be considered a villain. He’s more pitiable than contemptible at this point, easier to laugh at than to hate. It’s almost as if a troubled 14-year-old’s disjointed diary took human form.
In the grand scheme of boxing things, Garcia was born with the exceptional gift of almost super-human hand speed (especially in his rocket-like left). But, to this day, he’s yet to find the discipline or mental wherewithal to build around that gift. His wildly uneven and mostly sloppy performance versus Haney showcased his deficiencies just as much as it showcased his gifts. It can’t be forgotten that, despite the knockdowns and despite the beating Haney took, this was actually a close fight because, for big chunks of the bout, Garcia couldn’t get out of his own way to get much done. Given the advantages Garcia had and the clear inability of Haney to handle Garcia’s strengths, this fight should’ve been a five-round blowout.
A case could be made that Haney and his team almost had this beatdown coming, though, as they rolled with arrogance throughout the buildup to the event. They were so brimming with confidence that they let Garcia walk into the ring overweight and fresh from not having to even try to make weight.
In all truth, weight may have been more of a factor than the Ostarine. Ryan being allowed to come in overweight was big, but there was also the matter of Haney, for the first time in his main stage career, not having a decided weight advantage over an opponent who can match his speed and surpass his power.
And then there was the blaring reality once the fight started that Devin seemed utterly ill-prepared to defend against the left hook-- pretty much, literally, they only thing he had to worry about from Garcia.
It was an all-around terrible performance from Haney made irrefutably humiliating by the fact that he was beaten by someone he and his team (and most of the rest of the boxing world) had written off as a poser, a pretender, and a nutjob underachieving “influencer” punchline.
This was the type of loss that ends careers. Not just for the physical damage done, but for the damage done to one’s mind and spirit. This kind of beating, under these circumstances, sticks with you, it becomes you. It’ll be exceptionally hard for Haney to come back from this virtual de-pantsing in front of the whole world. No matter how much he celebrates the nullified outcome and the “0” back on his official record, he’ll never be “that” guy he used to be. His salability will also take a major hit-- as evidenced by the lone bid of $2.42 million for his upcoming WBC junior welterweight title defense against Sandor Martin.
That’s where Garcia’s misconduct becomes significantly less “haha” amusing. He very well could’ve ruined a fellow 25-year-old’s professional future with his shadiness. No matter what you think of Devin Haney, the kid’s gone about his boxing business the right (legal) way and deserves the right to prove himself-- or be disproven-- in a fair fight.
Let’s just cut to the chase and say that Ryan Garcia is a shit head and that everything about him-- with the exception of that big left hand-- seems to be nauseatingly phony. Nothing he says can be believed, but all that laughable nuttiness stops being a joke when it affects another person’s livelihood and physical well-being.
Haney has vowed to sue Garcia over his transgressions. Good. He should get at least some money from what’s been done to him and his career. Personal litigation may be the only way fighters are really held accountable for dirty deeds done that currently only get slaps on the wrists from commissions and sanctioning bodies.
And, yeah, the NYSAC’s strictest-ever sanction is really just a slap on the wrist in the big picture. Garcia will give up just over a million dollars and lose a year of his career, but he still gets the back-end pay-per-view money owed to him, which could be an eight-digit sum, and a guaranteed monster purse when/if he comes back to the sport. Plus, he’ll continue to rake in all the social media/YouTube/sponsorship revenue that grew immensely over the last year or so as he milked boxing for exposure and engagement.
Even with the fines, the penalty money, and the weight wager costing him more than a combined $3.2 million, Garcia will make a bundle off his Haney fight misconduct.
If you ask me, that, right there, is some truly elite Illuminati Trumpist shit-- lying, cheating upward and reaping the benefits of playing to dummies and/or creeps with busted moral compasses while laughing all the way to the bank.
Ryan Garcia seems to be in the “club” now. I hope he didn’t have to eat any baby brains or sacrifice any puppies to get there.
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