Ryan Garcia claimed he’s “finished” with boxing — at the very least for now. Whereas taking to X on Thursday, June 20, the 25-year-old athlete introduced he’s stepping again from the game.

“I’ll nonetheless be coaching, however I’m harm and finished with it and everybody,” he wrote in a single tweet. “The unhappy half is I’m an important boxer And I entertain and knock individuals out. I’m unhappy bc I [love] boxing. Praying for everybody and I hope everybody has an important life.”

I’m formally retired

— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) June 19, 2024

Ryan adopted up in a collection of tweets that day. In a single, he wrote, “I’m formally retired” however added in a separate publish, “It’s okay I’m retired I’ll come again ina yr [sic].” In a subsequent tweet, Ryan wrote, “I used to be already retired, so I’ll simply come again out of retirement for a yr.”

Earlier this month, the boxer was arrested for alleged property injury on the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, California. Per BBC Sport, Beverly Hills police had been known as to the property after an “intoxicated individual” was reported.

“It was decided that Mr Garcia was a registered visitor of the lodge and had triggered injury to a visitor room and the hallway of the lodge,” the outlet reported. “Resort administration requested the arrest of Mr Garcia for property injury. He was arrested and transported by the Beverly Hills Hearth Division to an area hospital for medical care.”

The arrest got here weeks after Ryan examined optimistic for a performance-enhancing drug earlier than his combat towards Devin Haney.

From my group to yours 💙💙💙 https://t.co/vb1V5iK4x5

— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) June 20, 2024

All through his current collection of tweets, Ryan shared an announcement from his group, which claimed that he “was a sufferer of substance contamination, with ranges measured within the billions and trillions of a gram, which offered no benefit in anyway within the ring.”

“Ryan, together with his authorized group, has resolved this difficulty and firmly maintains his fact: he by no means deliberately took any banned substance,” the assertion learn. “It’s merely not in his nature.”

Moreover, the assertion identified that the athlete will “proceed to raise the game and will probably be actively concerned in advocating for reform. We hope future adjustments in our system will handle points like this one.”

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