Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney and The Troubled Fight of the Decade
Boxing pundits and insiders are clueless about their own sport: about mental health, steroids, trash talk — and don’t even put the nickel in about fatherhood.
When can we begin assigning blame and calling for heads to roll? Someone needs to pay for this misery.
Ryan Garcia defeated favored and never-beaten Devin Haney by majority decision in their April 20 battle in Madison Square Garden. We are now deep in a dramatic interlude with the release of information regarding Ryan Garcia’s blood test, taken the day before and the day of the fight, that showed evidence of Ostarine, a banned steroid. Trace amounts of nandrolone — synthetic testosterone — were also indicated, but further testing did not confirm that finding.
The righteous, imperial pundits of boxing are giving us their sage analysis of the various controversies currently circulating:
· Boxers are responsible for what’s their body. Pundit Dan Rafael — his indignation dripping from the page, his condemnation swift and merciless — writes of steroids in the blood: ‘it is not relavant (sic) how they got there.’ Rafael believes he has the knowledge and authority to overturn centuries of legal history on which…
