Ryan Garcia has been accused of taking PEDs and banned from boxing for a 12 months, however Dana White believes he is harmless.
Garcia picked himself up after dropping his undefeated file in opposition to Gervonta Davis. The rising star knocked out Oscar Duarte earlier than gorgeous the world by beating Devin Haney, however that win has since been overuled following a failed drug take a look at.
Regardless of insisting that it is none of his enterprise, Dana White got here to the help of the down on his luck Ryan Garcia. Discussing the matter throughout the UFC 303 post-fight press convention, White was adamant that the boxer hadn’t deliberately taken an unlawful substance.
“To begin with, none of that’s any of my enterprise,” White advised media on Saturday. “It is not my card. It is not my, no matter.”
“You understand I hate speaking about drug testing. However with all of our data that we’ve got within the years that we have been drug testing, we consider the individuals who deal with the drug testing that he had [taken] a tainted complement.”
“He didn’t cheat. If he had the best individuals round him and had the best, you recognize, that would not occur.”
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“We’re fairly assured it was a tainted complement. I’ve received no pores and skin on this recreation, I do not give a sh*t. It is not my struggle, it is none of my enterprise and never my place to even discuss it.”
“From what my group tells me — and these guys are the f***ing greatest — [it was a] tainted complement.”
Ryan Garcia will now be compelled away from boxing for a 12 months, although he has vowed to not simply sit round. Based on Garcia himself, he could also be taking a look at a chance to struggle in both blended martial arts or naked knuckle boxing sooner or later.
Take a look at what Dana White needed to say in regards to the Ryan Garcia state of affairs under.