{"id":509199,"date":"2026-03-02T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:45:10","slug":"shakur-stevenson-agrees-to-ryan-garcias-new-terms-for-title-fight-lets-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509199\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson agrees to Ryan Garcia’s new terms for title fight: “Let’s do it”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After claiming the WBC welterweight world title, a host of fighters are eyeing up a lucrative world title shot against Ryan Garcia<\/a>, but \u2018King Ry\u2019 has announced that he is willing to head to a new weight-class in order to face another world champion.<\/p>\n

Garcia moved up to the welterweight division after missing the super-lightweight weight limit in his controversial meeting with Devin Haney in 2024, which was followed by a one-year ban from the sport due to a failed drugs test.<\/p>\n

\u2018King Ry\u2019 was unsuccessful in a WBA welterweight title fight against Rolando Romero upon his return and debut at 147lbs, but he impressed in his second outing in the division, dominating Mario Barrios on to finally become world champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before that fight, it was expected that the victor would next defend the belt against mandatory challenger Conor Benn, but Garcia went on to call out WBO super-lightweight ruler Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, after stating he would fight Stevenson at a catchweight of 144lbs<\/a>, Garcia has now had a change of heart and has offered to come down to super-lightweight<\/a> in an attempt to become a two-division world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cForget the catchweight s**t.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s do it for real.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to take your belt and snatch it right off you. @ShakurStevenson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia missed weight by over three pounds when he was tasked with Haney, thus losing the chance to win the WBC super-lightweight title and insisted that \u2018his body could not safely go lower than 143lbs\u2019 and that he refuses \u2018to kill himself to make the weight\u2019.<\/p>\n

As a result, there is concern amongst his fans that an attempted return to the weight could be a mistake. On social media<\/a>, Garcia reassured his supporters that he will make the weight safely, before warning Stevenson not to make allegations alluding to his use of performance enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo those that are worried about the 140 pound weight. I will tell you this, it was my plan to be able to also win at 140.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as there\u2019s no rehydration clause things will be going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cTesting always included, I\u2019ve never shy\u2019d away from that. For Shakur to assume I\u2019m on steroids, that is defamation. So I would advise you to refrain yourself, I know you are deep down scared and you should have fear. I\u2019m coming for you.<\/p>\n

\u201cFear the lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Stevenson accepted the challenge from Garcia and opened the door for a potential super-fight in the 140lb division.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my opinion, you can\u2019t sue nobody for their opinion, You a boxer, champ, wassup with all the suing tactics anyway? 140. Let\u2019s do it, chump.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Stevenson-Garcia title fight at 140lbs would undoubtedly be one of the biggest fights that could be made in the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After claiming the WBC welterweight world title, a host of fighters are eyeing up a lucrative world title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-509199","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\/509199","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=509199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}