Ryan Garcia's blockbuster comeback did not go as planned. The controversial welterweight suffered a stunning and lopsided unanimous decision loss (115-112, 115-112, 118-109) to Rolando "Rolly" Romero on Friday night, sending his immediate future spiraling into the unknown following a lackluster showing at the historic boxing event in Times Square, New York.
Garcia had not competed in more than a year after testing positive for the banned substance ostarine in two drug tests related to his grudge match against Devin Haney. Garcia dropped Haney three times en route to a majority decision win, however the match was later declared a no contest due to the drug-test failures and Garcia received a one-year suspension.