Ryan Garcia examined optimistic for ostarine earlier than and after Devin Haney combat – report

Ryan Garcia examined optimistic for the performance-enhancing anabolic agent ostarine on the day earlier than and the day after his shock win over Devin Haney final month in New York Metropolis, based on a Voluntary Anti-Doping Affiliation (Vada) letter despatched to each events.

ESPN was first to report the information of Garcia’s failed drug checks, which if confirmed would seemingly end in a suspension and the overturning of the consequence to a no-contest.

Garcia has 10 days to request that his B-sample be examined. Garcia’s A-sample additionally reportedly screened optimistic for 19-norandrosterone, although its presence is being confirmed by carbon isotope ratio testing.

Ostarine is an anabolic agent regardeed as a safer different to steroids which seems on the World Anti-Doping Company’s 2024 Prohibited Listing.

Garcia vehemently denied taking any unlawful substances in a video posted to X on Wednesday evening.

“All people is aware of that I don’t cheat,” Garcia mentioned. “I’ve by no means taken a steroid in my life. I don’t even know the place to get steroids, on the finish of the day. I barely take dietary supplements … Massive lies, I beat his ass.”

The 25-year-old Garcia scored three knockdowns of Haney and handed the WBC tremendous light-weight champion the primary defeat of his skilled profession in a dramatic upset on 20 April.

The scheduled 12-round encounter at Brooklyn’s Barclays Heart had been downgraded to a non-title bout when Garcia weighed in at 143.2lbs – 3.2lbs above the division restrict – making a scenario the place Garcia may now not take Haney’s championship, solely his unblemished skilled file.

“We discovered about this case not too way back and it’s unlucky Ryan cheated and disrespected each the followers and the game of boxing by combating soiled and breaking optimistic not as soon as, however twice,” Haney mentioned in a press release to ESPN.

“Ryan owes the followers an apology, and by his current tweet he nonetheless thinks it is a joke. We put our lives on the road to entertain individuals for a residing. You don’t play boxing. This places the combat in a very totally different mild. Regardless of the drawback, I nonetheless fought on my defend and bought again up! Folks die on this sport. This isn’t a joking matter.”

Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator that has been on Wada’s banned record since 2008. Amir Khan was hit with a ban from all sport for 2 years after he was discovered responsible of getting it in his system on the evening of his 2022 combat with Kell Brook.