Count Ryan Garcia is another newborn boxing star seeking retirement from the sport. There are rumors that the fighter will be officially suspended by the NYSAC for at least some time after the failed drug test that led to his fight with Devin Haney, and it looks like all the drama surrounding Garcia has become too much for him to handle. . bear.
In a series of posts on X, Garcia highlights numerous issues he has been dealing with both in and out of boxing, specifically stating that his legal dietary supplements were contaminated, causing him to fail a drug test. And with his biggest career win over Devin Haney likely to be a no-contest loss at the very least, Garcia says he’s done with corruption in the sport.
“You can catch me anywhere, but when it comes to boxing, I don’t know. There is so much corruption that I am fed up. Maybe I’ll play or sing. I’ll still train, but I’m injured and I’m fed up with this and everyone. The unhappy thing is that I’m a great boxer, I entertain and knock people out. I’m unhappy because (I love) boxing,” Garcia wrote.
Garcia would then confirm his intention to retire by clearly posting the appropriate information.
“I’m officially retired.”
Naturally, most won’t pay much attention to Garcia’s rumored retirement since he’s still quite newborn and there will still be plenty of money on the table for him in the sport he grew up with – not to mention it’s becoming quite fashionable for newborn fighters to shout “retire” on social media, but they immediately look the other way, as we recently saw with Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson.
Interestingly, Garcia is apparently not the only one who will be taking some kind of break here (forced or otherwise), as Devin Haney also took to social media to announce that he will be taking a few years off from the sport to return for a rematch with Garcia ahead of schedule.
“I’ll put in some time, spend some money,” Haney wrote on X. “Travel the world and I’ll be back in two years after Ryan’s suspension and we can fight again.”
Make of it whatever you want.