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WBC expels Ryan Garcia after boxer’s racist and Islamophobic slurs on social media
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- Boxing body says it ‘rejects any form of discrimination’
- Concerns have been raised about boxer in recent past
Ryan Garcia was expelled by the World Boxing Council on Thursday after he repeatedly used racial slurs against Black people and disparaged Muslims in comments livestreamed on social media.
“Exercising my authority … I am hereby expelling Ryan Garcia from any activity with our organization,” the WBC president, Mauricio Sulaiman, wrote on X. “We reject any form of discrimination.”
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