{"id":895272,"date":"2026-09-17T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:54:10","slug":"former-world-champion-says-ryan-garcia-can-hurt-and-beat-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895272\/","title":{"rendered":"Former world champion says Ryan Garcia can ‘hurt’ and beat Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a> defended his WBC welterweight title on Saturday and proceeded to call out a retired Terence Crawford during the aftermath. Now, a former world champion believes that Crawford could lose his undefeated record to the Californian if he returns.<\/p>\n

Garcia needed only two rounds to kickstart his welterweight reign in style, authoritatively beating Conor Benn down<\/a> and drawing an early stoppage that has enhanced his already global level of superstardom.<\/p>\n

However, for Garcia to truly take over and become the \u2018face of boxing\u2019, as forecasted by Dana White<\/a>, \u2018King Ry\u2019 may need the name of a pound-for-pound star on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and it seems as though 39-year-old Crawford is his preferred target.<\/p>\n

Speaking to FightHype<\/a>, former IBF super-featherweight world champion Joseph \u2018JoJo\u2019 Diaz warned Crawford that Garcia is more than capable of hurting him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely [Garcia is capable of challenging Crawford]. Anything can happen in boxing and everybody is human. At the end of the day, everybody bleeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerence Crawford has made a statement in the sport of boxing and he is one hell of a fighter, Ryan Garcia is a hell of a fighter, as well. It\u2019s boxing, anything can happen and you have seen with Terence Crawford, he has got hurt in the past so it without doubt Ryan Garcia could hurt him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although, Diaz went on to suggest that Garcia should work on his defence, believing that he saw a red flag in his performance at the weekend, despite it being a two-round demolition job.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Ryan Garcia comes with that [peek-a-boo] style like how he did for a couple seconds in the last fight with Conor Benn, I think that Terence Crawford could take advantage of those opportunities and I think that he can really hurt Ryan, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat peek-a-boo style of defence is not good and I think that people will capitalise on that, so I think that he [Garcia] needs to work on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia looks poised for a future clash with WBA welterweight titleholder Teofimo Lopez in an intriguing title unification, whilst Diaz is gearing up for a first bout on British soil as he takes on Brian Hyslop in a bareknuckle affair in Newcastle on Saturday, October 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia defended his WBC welterweight title on Saturday and proceeded to call out a retired Terence Crawford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-895272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895272","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=895272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}