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Oscar De La Hoya Leaks Unhinged Ryan Garcia Rant Amid Bipolar 'Episode'

Boxing icon Oscar De La Hoya revealed a scathing message Ryan Garcia sent him, which was supposed to be kept private.
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Ryan Garcia misses weight, weighing in at 143.2lbs for his bout with WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney on April 18, 2024.
Ryan Garcia misses weight, weighing in at 143.2lbs for his bout with WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney on April 18, 2024. | IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire

The relationship between boxing legend turned Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya and his most famous pupil Ryan Garcia has been a contentious one over the years, to say the least.

While these two have had a long-standing working relationship with one another, where Da La Hoya has worked as Garcia's promoter and mentor, there have been some bitter words and emotions exchanged between them, both publicly and privately.

One example of this was De La Hoya looking clearly disappointed and embarrassed by Garcia after he chugged a beer during weigh-ins ahead of his April 2024 fight against Devin Haney, just several hours after being over three pounds overweight.

While it had seemed like the two had since repaired their relationship, an X post De La Hoya shared on June 28 now suggests otherwise, as he posted a screenshot of a scathing text message Garcia allegedly sent him.

"First of all f*** you, especially you you for one disrespectful me with that s***** contract bc I lost but but I'm your actual only current star fighter. You can suck a d*** and I know you already do. So f*** you. You can kiss my a**. I'll beat Rollies a** and whoever. I can't wait till I go against you again like I did with Duarte and duno to see your stupid a** face again looking stupid f*** yoj and that stupid offer b**** I'll slap the f*** outta you just like canelo and berlanga," Garcia wrote in the message.

De La Hoya's post was captioned, "Unfortunately Ryan Garcia is having another episode. Ten days ago he’s talking about God and finding his path, then tonight he sends me this rant while watching his fellow Golden Boy fighters win. Bipolar disorder is very serious and I hope he gets the help he needs."

While this is obviously a bad look for Garcia, De La Hoya deciding to leak this private message to the world is also questionable behavior.

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Grant Young is a Staff Writer for On SI’s Boxing, New York Mets, Indiana Fever, and Women’s Fastbreak sites. Before joining SI in 2024, he wrote for various boxing and sports verticals such as FanBuzz and NY Fights. Young has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis on sports nonfiction from the University of San Francisco, where he played five seasons of Division 1 baseball. He fought Muay Thai professionally in Thailand in 2023, loves a good essay, and is driven crazy trying to handle a pitpull puppy named Aura. Young lives in San Diego and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.