{"id":498691,"date":"2026-02-25T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498691\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:20:07","slug":"ryan-garcia-will-now-only-fight-shakur-stevenson-under-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498691\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia will now only fight Shakur Stevenson under one condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a>\u2019s father and trainer, Henry Garcia, has outlined the determining factor for whether a showdown between his son and Shakur Stevenson<\/a> gets made.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old called out Stevenson immediately after his victory over Mario Barrios<\/a>, which saw him claim the WBC welterweight title last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Prior to their clash, many questioned whether Garcia was in the right mental space to dethrone Barrios, a tough but technically limited world champion.<\/p>\n

As it happened, though, \u2018King Ry\u2019 was able to drop his man in the opening round, before piecing together a dominant unanimous decision victory in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But before facing Barrios, Garcia had expressed his desire to lock horns with Stevenson, the WBO super-lightweight champion, in a bid to test himself against one of his sport\u2019s most elite operators.<\/p>\n

Stevenson, meanwhile, has insisted that their potential clash can only take place at a catchweight of 144lbs<\/a>, to which Garcia verbally agreed before defeating Barrios.<\/p>\n

Speaking with MillCity Boxing<\/a>, though, Henry Garcia has said that Stevenson must move up to 147lbs, or else they will pursue a rematch with Devin Haney.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely [the Haney rematch is bigger than a Shakur Stevenson fight], by far, there is no comparison. In order for [Stevenson] to fight us, he\u2019s going to have to come up to [147lbs]. Didn\u2019t [Crawford] go up [to fight] Canelo [at 168lbs]? And he got respect, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy doesn\u2019t Shakur go up to [fight] Ryan? He wants Ryan to [agree to] a catchweight. We don\u2019t want to start going down \u2013 unless it makes sense, but I doubt it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson comes off a one-sided points victory over Teofimo Lopez, for which he moved up from 135lbs, and became a four-division world champion last month.<\/p>\n

But despite Stevenson\u2019s lofty status as a pound-for-pound star, Henry Garcia firmly believes that a rematch between his son and Haney, the WBO welterweight champion, is a much bigger fight.<\/p>\n

Their first encounter came in April 2024, though Garcia\u2019s majority decision victory was later overturned to a no-contest due to him testing positive for banned substance ostarine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia\u2019s father and trainer, Henry Garcia, has outlined the determining factor for whether a showdown between his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-498691","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\/498691","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=498691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}