{"id":261662,"date":"2025-11-04T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261662\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:00:11","slug":"wbc-lifts-ban-on-ryan-garcia-after-expelling-him-for-racist-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261662\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC lifts ban on Ryan Garcia after expelling him for racist posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andreas HaleNov 5, 2025, 01:25 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.<\/p>\n

The World Boxing Council announced that they will be lifting their ban of Ryan Garcia, paving the way for the fighter to compete for their world title.<\/p>\n

“The WBC has been very close to Ryan, his family, management and promoter and we trust a new life inside and outside the ring will begin,” read the WBC’s post on social media<\/a> on Thursday night. “We welcome you with open arms and trust you will be an ambassador for the new generation.”<\/p>\n

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Garcia was expelled from the sanctioning body<\/a> last July after repeatedly using racial slurs against Black people and disparaging Muslims on social media. It was an exclamation point on a series of bizarre behaviors from the popular fighter after being handed a one-year suspension<\/a> from the New York State Athletic Commission after he tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug ostarine following his fight with Devin Haney<\/a>. What was originally a win for Garcia was overturned to a no contest and set off a tumultuous year for the fighter.<\/p>\n

“We reject any form of discrimination,” WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman wrote last year. “I fear for Ryan well being as he has declined multiple attempts for our help with mental health and substance abuse.”<\/p>\n

With the WBC overturning their ban, there’s a possibility that Garcia will face current WBC welterweight titleholder Mario Barrios. Sources have told ESPN that a fight between the two has been discussed, although a deal has yet to be cemented.<\/p>\n

Barrios is coming off a controversial majority draw<\/a> against boxing legend Manny Pacquiao in July.<\/p>\n

Garcia hasn’t fought since being upset<\/a> by Rolly Romero in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleNov 5, 2025, 01:25 AM CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-261662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}