Ryan Garcia responds to reportedly testing positive for banned substance

Ryan Garcia went off via social media on Wednesday after allegedly failing a drug test prior to his fight against Devin Haney two weeks ago.

Garcia beat Haney via majority decision in their April 20 fight at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. On Wednesday, we learned that Garcia had been informed that a drug test sample he submitted prior to the fight tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance Ostarine. Garcia’s A-sample also screened positive for 19-Norandrosterone, but its presence could not be confirmed as of now, according to ESPN’s Mike Coppinger.

Garcia has 10 days to request his B-sample be tested.

In the meantime, the 25-year-old boxer has vehemently denied any wrongdoing. He posted a video on X in which he called the positive test “fake news.”

“Everybody knows that I don’t cheat,” Garcia said in the video. “Never taken a steroid … I don’t even know where to get steroids. … I barely take supplements.”

At first he seemed to blame an anti-stress supplement for the positive test.