Ryan Garcia is training for his welterweight showdown with Rolly Romero on May 2 in Times Square, but the promoter of his previously scheduled fight filed a lawsuit against him.

Fanmio announced in a press release Thursday that it has sued Garcia and Golden Boy Promotions for “alleged fraudulent inducement, tortious interference and other serious claims” related to his canceled fight against Rukiya Anpo. Fanmio seeks unspecified damages from Garcia and Golden Boy.

Garcia and Anpo, a kickboxer from Japan, were slated to box New Year’s Eve in Tokyo as part of a pay-per-view combat sports card.

According to the lawsuit, Golden Boy actively worked to sabotage the event, from which Garcia withdrew in mid-December due to a wrist injury.

Lupe Valencia, Garcia’s attorney, declined comment when reached by The Ring on Thursday afternoon because he had not had time to that point to read the entire complaint. A spokeswoman for Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions declined comment Thursday as well.

According to the lawsuit, Fanmio was “deceived into organizing an event in which Ryan never intended to participate.” Fanmio, headed by CEO Solomon Engle, also alleged Garcia received payment for participating in the early part of its promotion of that event.

An apologetic Garcia stated during RIZIN’s telecast December 31 from Tokyo that he would reschedule his fight against Anpo and make his trash-talking adversary “eat his words.” That fight has not been rescheduled.

Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs, 1 NC) instead decided to fight Romero (16-2, 13 KOs) – a former WBA super lightweight champ from North Las Vegas, Nevada – as part of The Ring’s “FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves” tripleheader seven weeks from Friday night in Times Square in New York. Garcia’s involvement in this Ring event is not expected to be impacted by Fanmio’s lawsuit, which claims Garcia is contractually obligated to fight for that company next.

The Ring is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

The 26-year-old Garcia, of Victorville, California, is still serving a one-year suspension in the United States because he tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance, following his 12-round, majority-decision victory over rival Devin Haney last April 20 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The New York State Athletic Commission suspended Garcia for a year and fined him $1.2 million once he failed that Voluntary Anti-Doping Association test for performance-enhancing drugs. Garcia dropped Haney (31-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) three times and won their DAZN Pay-Per-View main event on two scorecards, but the result was changed to a no-contest because Garcia had a banned substance in his system.

Fanmio was previously involved with the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul exhibition in June 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida, and the Nate Diaz-Jorge Masvidal event last July 6 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

Diaz, a former UFC star, sued Fanmio for breach of contract. He alleged the company owed him $9 million from his purse for the 10-round Masvidal match, which Diaz won by majority decision.