{"id":495663,"date":"2026-02-22T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495663\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:05:07","slug":"barrios-vs-garcia-fight-card-loses-title-fight-just-before-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495663\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrios vs. Garcia fight card loses title fight just before event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ryan Garcia vs. Mario Barrios just lost its co-main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Richardson Hitchins was supposed to defend his IBF junior-welterweight title against Oscar Duarte on Saturday night in Las Vegas, but just hours before their bout, Hitchins withdrew from the event due to illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sporting a 20-0 professional record, Hitchins, 28, was entering this bout off the biggest win of his career, a stoppage of George Kambosos Jr. in June. He was a sizable betting favorite over Duarte, coming in at greater than a four-to-one favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sporting a professional record of 30-2-1, Duarte, 30, is riding a four-fight win streak since his knockout loss to Ryan Garcia in 2023. Most recently, Duarte won a majority decision over Kenneth Sims Jr. in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hithcins and Duarte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/oscars-clapback-richardson-hitchins-irked-by-oscar-duartes-disrespect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a heated buildup to this fight<\/a>. There\u2019s no word yet on what specific illness forced Hitchins out of the event or on a timeline for rebooking the matchup with Duarte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Garcia vs. Barrios undercard starts at 6 p.m. ET, with the main card starting at 8 p.m. on DAZN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia vs. Mario Barrios just lost its co-main event. Richardson Hitchins was supposed to defend his IBF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-495663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}