{"id":553713,"date":"2026-03-22T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:20:06","slug":"ryan-garcia-u-turns-on-shakur-stevenson-fight-offer-theres-no-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553713\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia u-turns on Shakur Stevenson fight offer: “There’s no excuse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a> has changed his mind on the terms he had originally proposed for a clash against Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old called out Stevenson immediately after his last outing, a unanimous decision victory that saw him dethrone Mario Barrios to become the WBC world welterweight champion.<\/p>\n

Prior to claiming the title last month, though, Garcia had suffered a points defeat to Rolando Romero after getting floored in the second round.<\/p>\n

That particular setback came in May 2025, just over a year after he claimed a majority decision victory over Devin Haney, which was later overturned to a no-contest due to him testing positive for banned substance ostarine.<\/p>\n

But now, having completed his year-long drugs ban<\/a> and, more recently, secured a dominant victory over Barrios, it certainly seems as though Garcia has turned his career around.<\/p>\n

Yet despite previously confirming his desire to face Stevenson<\/a> at a catchweight of 144lbs, and even saying he could potentially make 140, the American has now insisted via X<\/a> that he intends to remain at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started at a low weight just like you [Stevenson] so there\u2019s no excuse for you not to come to 147[lbs] without rehydration clause????? But if you don\u2019t want to that\u2019s fine. I\u2019m not forcing you to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia did tip the scales as low as 127lbs at the beginning of his career, but is now a fully-fledged welterweight.<\/p>\n

Stevenson, on the other hand, has never fought above 140lbs, which he weighed ahead of his unanimous decision victory over Teofimo Lopez in January.<\/p>\n

The masterful performance saw him capture Lopez\u2019s WBO super-lightweight title and, in doing so, become a four-division world champion, making the accolades of Garcia pale in comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia has changed his mind on the terms he had originally proposed for a clash against Shakur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-553713","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\/553713","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=553713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}