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Boxer Ryan Garcia says he has never taken steroids after ESPN reported he twice tested positive for the performance enhancing drug ostarine – the day before & day of his victory over Devin Haney last month.
“Big lies, I beat his ass,” Garcia said. “Everybody knows I don’t cheat,” he said.
On Wednesday, ESPN reported it had obtained a Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) letter, which detailed that the 25-year-old Garcia had submitted urine tests before the fight, but the results were processed afterwards.
Responding to the story, Garcia posted – saying: “I’ve never taken a steroid. … I don’t even know where to get steroids at the end of the day … I barely take supplements.”
Garcia knocked down Haney 3 times in a majority decision victory in front of a sold-out crowd at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on April 20.
Garcia had already missed the weight limit for the showdown, coming up 3 pounds over.
To miss the weight limit for a world title fight isn’t unheard of, but it’s rare & it meant that the 25-year-old no longer had a shot at winning the WBC super lightweight title, though the bout still went ahead.
Ostarine is the trademarked name for a selective androgen receptor modulators, known as SARMs, which are pharmaceutical drugs that mimic the effects of testosterone.
These compounds are often marketed to bodybuilders online as “legal steroids” that can help them look leaner & more muscular & increase athletic performance.
Under New York State Commission rules boxers “fighting in the State undergo mandatory urine testing for examination of prohibited substances.”
“It’s unfortunate Ryan cheated & disrespected both the fans & the sport of boxing by fighting dirty and breaking positive not once, but twice,” Haney said.
ESPN reported that the fights result could be overturned unless Garcia’s B-sample comes back negative. Garcia has 10 days to formally request that this second test be performed.
“Ryan has put out multiple statements denying knowingly using any banned substances & we believe him,” Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, the agency representing Garcia.
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Source: CNN
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