{"id":686328,"date":"2026-05-22T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:38:13","slug":"ilia-topuria-says-hed-break-ryan-garcia-in-boxing-garcia-fires-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686328\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria says he’d break Ryan Garcia in boxing, Garcia fires back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia warns Ilia Topuria<\/a> that boxing him would be a bad idea.<\/p>\n

UFC lightweight champion Topuria (17-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) has used his crisp boxing to take out current featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski<\/a>, former champ Max Holloway<\/a>, and BMF champ Charles Oliveira<\/a> consecutively.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of his title-unification bout against Justin Gaethje<\/a> in the UFC Freedom 250 headliner on June 14 at the White House, Topuria spoke out on his desire of one day lacing up the gloves.<\/p>\n

“Boxing is definitely something where I say, ‘Wow, I’d love to do that,’ but I’d love to do it with someone big, someone real with an established name,” Topuria said in a translated interview with ABC<\/a>. “Someone who could add to my resume which I’ve worked so hard to build. I wouldn’t want to put it in the hands of a nobody, just for money.”<\/p>\n

WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia was thrown at Topuria as a suggestion, and the lightweight champion was all for it.<\/p>\n

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“That would be a huge fight, I’d love it,” Topuria responded. “I see a fight like Ryan Garcia being very comfortable for me. I think I would break him long before it gets to the judges decision.”<\/p>\n

Garcia clapped back at Topuria with a stern warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You are a damn good striker for MMA that\u2019s it. You wouldn\u2019t be sipping on tea after our fight you would be eating thru a straw after our fight. Stay in your lane. I\u2019ll gladly stay in mine.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Ryan Garcia takes umbrage with Ilia Topuria saying he’d break him<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia warns Ilia Topuria that boxing him would be a bad idea. UFC lightweight champion Topuria (17-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,64,63,17500,786,17499,8944,107310,1395,785,37653,85,60364],"class_list":["post-686328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-oliveira","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-lightweight-champion","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-ryan-garcia","tag-sports","tag-ufc-lightweight-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686328","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=686328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}