Ryan Garcia has a brand new authorized subject on his palms forward of his return to motion in Could.
The 26-year-old boxer and his promoters at Golden Boy are going through a brand new lawsuit filed within the U.S. district courtroom in California on Thursday by Fanmio over a cancelled exhibition bout that was imagined to happen in Japan on Dec. 31, 2025.
Fanmio — a streaming platform that beforehand promoted a boxing match between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz — filed the lawsuit after Garcia dropped out of a scheduled matchup towards Rukiya Anpo after which finally booked a very completely different combat towards Rolly Romero as a part of the upcoming particular occasion in Instances Sq. in New York Metropolis in Could.
The lawsuit claims that Garcia dropped out of the combat in Japan after Golden Boy allegedly said that he was not allowed to compete for a distinct promotion whereas below contract with them.
“Particularly, Garcia agreed to take part in an exhibition combat in Japan — a combat which Fanmio agreed to advertise and broadcast to thousands and thousands of viewers via its worldwide pay-per-view streaming community,” the lawsuit states. “Thereafter, Golden Boy — threatened by Fanmio’s involvement — improperly used its affect over and contract with Garcia to stop the match from taking place.
“However not solely was the boxing match not prohibited by the Golden Boy contract, but in addition the king’s ransom demanded by Golden Boy to permit the combat to go ahead finally led to the boxer counting on a pre-existing harm and backing out of the combat — when Fanmio refused to comply with Golden Boy’s phrases. This, nevertheless, was not till Fanmio had already incurred over $1 million in bills working to advertise the Dec. 31, 2024 combat.”
On the time Garcia was booked for the combat in Japan, he was nonetheless serving a one-year suspension after testing constructive for a banned substance surrounding his match towards Devin Haney. Whereas the overwhelming majority of athletic commissions around the globe would additionally honor that suspension, Garcia didn’t face that very same form of scrutiny competing in an exhibition bout in Japan.
Sadly, the lawsuit claims that your complete promotion was constructed round Garcia’s return to the ring and now even when he really adopted via with the combat in Japan at a later date, the promotion can be fully completely different since he’s already scheduled to compete on Could 2.
“Garcia might have fought in each the exhibition and the Instances Sq. combat,” the lawsuit states. “Each Fanmio and Golden Boy and Garcia might have made substantial earnings. Nevertheless, Fanmio is left holding the bag — fairly actually — for the sums that it had already expanded with a view to promote the exhibitions, in addition to the thousands and thousands in misplaced earnings it sustained on account of Garcia and Golden Boy’s misconduct. These prices had already been incurred previous to Garcia feigning harm in Dec. 2024.
“Upon info and perception, Garcia is being paid $40 million for the Instances Sq. combat and his subsequent combat via Golden Boy. Golden Boy is predicted to see earnings properly in extra of that given Garcia’s reputation. Then again, along with shedding out on the $1 million that Fanmio had already incurred selling the exhibition, Fanmio won’t take residence any earnings on a combat which won’t happen — earnings that might have totaled in extra of $10 million.”
The lawsuit is searching for damages towards each Garcia and Golden Boy over the cancelled combat for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, tortious interference, fraudulent inducement, fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation and extra accusations specified by the 38-page lawsuit.
