{"id":426725,"date":"2026-01-22T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:08:07","slug":"live-barrios-vs-garcia-kickoff-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426725\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Barrios vs. Garcia Kickoff Press Conference!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mario Barrios (29-2-2) is <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.mmamania.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=416310&amp;action=edit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set to defend<\/a> his WBC welterweight title against Ryan Garcia (24-2-1) on Feb. 21, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada, streaming live online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\/en-US\/sport\/Sport:2x2oqzx60orpoeugkd754ga17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAZN PPV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia is coming off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/2\/24422792\/rolly-romero-vs-ryan-garcia-official-judges-scorecard-12-round-decision-pic-times-square-dazn-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision defeat<\/a> at the hands of Rolando Romero in May 2025, putting him at 1-2-1 in his last four fights. Prior to that loss \u201cKing Ry\u2019s\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/4\/21\/24135987\/full-fight-video-highlights-devin-haney-vs-ryan-garcia-results-dazn-ppv-boxing-new-york-knockdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated<\/a> Devin Haney, though that win was overturned to a \u201cNo Contest\u201d after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/5\/1\/24146855\/big-lies-ryan-garcia-denies-reported-drug-test-failure-for-peds-in-devin-haney-fight-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed pre- and post-fight drug tests<\/a>, which resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/6\/20\/24182749\/ryan-garcia-agrees-to-one-year-suspension-after-failed-drug-test-devin-haney-boxing-match\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-year suspension<\/a>. Barrios, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24470790\/scorecards-pacquiao-skunked-by-barrios-in-final-rounds-en-route-to-majority-draw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fought to a draw<\/a> in his last two contests against Manny Pacquiao and Abel Ramos, so he is desperately trying to get back into the win column, all while securing one of the biggest wins of his career and holding on to his strap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before the two get it on inside the ring, they will embark on a press tour to promote the event, kicking things off today (Thurs., Jan. 22) at 4 p.m. ET in the embedded video above. For Garcia, getting a win over Barrios means he no longer has to play second fiddle to anyone on fight week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI really don\u2019t like that his name being first on the poster so i am going to make sure I whoop his ass,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nyfights.com\/announcements\/barrios-vs-garcia-now-official-for-february-21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he said recently.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For much more on Barrios vs. Garcia click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/414251\/mario-barrios-vs-ryan-garcia-title-fight-official-for-feb-21-in-las-vegas-the-ring-high-stakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Barrios (29-2-2) is set to defend his WBC welterweight title against Ryan Garcia (24-2-1) on Feb. 21,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-426725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}