{"id":475487,"date":"2026-02-15T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:38:08","slug":"devin-haney-picks-a-winner-in-mario-barrios-vs-ryan-garcia-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475487\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney picks a winner in Mario Barrios vs Ryan Garcia world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/devin-haney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Haney<\/a> has issued his final prediction for <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/mario-barrios\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Barrios<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a>, considering who he might face in a unification match at 147lbs.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will lock horns for Barrios\u2019 WBC welterweight title on February 21, with Garcia looking to become a world champion at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>His first outing at 147lbs, however, did not exactly go according to plan, as a lacklustre performance ultimately saw the 27-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/rolando-romero-drops-and-shocks-ryan-garcia-in-new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lose a unanimous decision to Rolando Romero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This second professional defeat, in May, came just over a year after his controversial majority decision victory over Haney, which was later overturned to a no-contest.<\/p>\n<p>This was because \u2018King Ry\u2019 had tested positive for ostarine, a performance-enhancing substance, which then prompted the New York State Athletic Commission to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd1175e56x7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hand him a year-long ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But despite that, and indeed his loss to Romero, Garcia has managed to secure himself an immediate world title shot against Barrios.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old comes off back-to-back draws against Abel Ramos and a 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao, who many felt had done enough to edge their encounter in July.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his last two performances, then, many are favouring Garcia to dethrone Barrios. One man backing a Garcia victory is WBO welterweight champion Haney, who has agreed with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Realdevinhaney\/status\/2021998467384746227\" rel=\"nofollow\">a list of predictions on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like this.. I got Gary over the Andy guy tho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I like this.. I got Gary over the Andy guy tho <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rInVFztK3l\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/rInVFztK3l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Devin Haney (@Realdevinhaney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Realdevinhaney\/status\/2021998467384746227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other fight Haney refers to is Gary Antuanne Russell vs Andy Hiraoka, which will see Russell defend his WBA super-lightweight title on the Barrios-Garcia undercard.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney has issued his final prediction for Mario Barrios vs Ryan Garcia, considering who he might face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-475487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475487","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=475487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}