{"id":590090,"date":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590090\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","slug":"ryan-garcia-names-the-most-horribly-overrated-fighter-in-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590090\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia names the most ‘horribly overrated’ fighter in boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

WBC welterweight world champion Ryan Garcia<\/a> has named the man whom he believes to be the most overrated fighter in the sport, saying that the hype is \u2018premature\u2019.<\/p>\n

Despite knocking out Luke Campbell for the WBC Interim lightweight title back in January 2021<\/a>, it took over five years for Garcia to finally claim world honours, with some fans thinking along the way that the \u2018overrated\u2019 label suited his own campaign.<\/p>\n

That long-awaited victory came in February, as \u2018King Ry\u2019 dominated proceedings against Mario Barrios to properly announce his return to the big time and receive the plaudits that his skills merit.<\/p>\n

Now, Garcia sits as one of the biggest names in the sport and the Californian is being linked to a mammoth rematch with rival and reigning WBO welterweight champion, Devin Haney.<\/p>\n

Despite criticising Haney in the past, on the Creators Think Podcast<\/a> when quizzed to name the most \u2018horribly overrated\u2019 active boxer, Garcia opted not to select his fierce foe. Instead, he looked upwards toward the super-welterweight division, playing down the abilities of Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cHorribly overrated? Today, I would say \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis. I know that I have said that before on a stream and got some hate but, at this point where they are hyping up like he is the next everything, I think it\u2019s a little premature and [that he is] overrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ennis held the unified IBF and WBA welterweight world titles but moved up to 154lbs late last year, knocking out Uisma Lima upon his debut in the division.<\/p>\n

At the end of June, the \u2018Boots\u2019 will challenge for the unified WBA and WBO super-welterweight titles<\/a> against the youngest unified champion in boxing, Puerto Rico\u2019s Xander Zayas.<\/p>\n

There is a possibility that Garcia, still just 27, will move up to 154lbs in the future. If he does so, Ennis may want to answer the above comments inside the ropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC welterweight world champion Ryan Garcia has named the man whom he believes to be the most overrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590090","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=590090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}