After make racist remarks On Black People, George Floyd, and Anti-Muslim Comments, Ryan Garcia Says He’s ‘Heading to Rehab’
In a long post on Instagram, Garcia apologized for his comments.stating that “if you are triggered by a word, it means you are too sensitive.”
“I want to clarify that I have indeed supported black communities. I have experienced racism from Tim Bradley who called me a zoo animal on ESPN,” Garcia wrote in a message. The message read: typed and captured.
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Ryan Garcia speaks onstage during the Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney New York Press Tour at Palladium Times Square on February 27, 2024, in New York City. (Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy/Getty Images)
“And I turn the other cheek, but I’m racist because everybody was drunk and talking shit, people say that all the time, including black men… God knows my heart and knows how I would protect black children until the day I die.”
Garcia said he was “speaking out against crimes committed by black people against black people” and “they took everything out of context.”
“Including the Muslim side, I spoke against pedophile activities in all religions and said that I do not tolerate them.”
The caption of the post was a little more reserved, however. Garcia said he was “removing” the N-word “from my vocabulary” and that he “sincerely apologizes if I have hurt and offended anyone.”
Boxer Ryan Garcia attends the Ring Of Fire official weigh-in at BLVD City – Music World on May 17, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
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“But my pain deserves to be felt, Black and Brown people have always been united. And it always will be. I’m just a little lighter than you, but I love you and I love black children to the point that I would kill for a black child. In fact, I was speaking out against crimes committed by black people on black people. Against (sic) I’m sorry,” he wrote.
Garcia then commented on his own post saying that he is “heading to rehab as well.”
“Also, my friend was the one who asked me to say that word and made me feel pressured, I’m not making excuses, I’m just saying it like that,” he wrote. “Also, my high school friends actually forced me to say it. I grew up like that.”
In another message, Garcia wrote that he “actually speaks very well of Muslims.“
After the viral incident, World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman announced on X that Garcia had been expelled from the organization.
Garcia continued an explicit rant The boxer was suspended for one year by the New York State Athletic Commission after testing positive for a banned substance during his fight against Devin Haney in April. He tested positive for ostarine, which is not a steroid but can stimulate muscle growth and is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.
Ryan Garcia (white shorts) reacts against Devin Haney during their WBC light welterweight title fight at Barclays Center on April 20, 2024, in New York City. (Al Bello/Getty Images)
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Garcia and his team He said at the time that he was “a victim of contamination by a substance, the levels of which are measured in billions and trillions of grams, which gave him no advantage in the ring.”
Garcia was arrested last month on vandalism charges after a Beverly Hills hotel accused him of causing about $15,000 in damage, a hotel spokesman said. Beverly Hills The police commander told ESPN he was reportedly arrested outside the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills.
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