{"id":644587,"date":"2026-05-03T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:34:08","slug":"ryan-garcia-looks-past-gervonta-davis-when-naming-the-toughest-fight-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644587\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia looks past Gervonta Davis when naming the toughest fight of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> has revealed his toughest opponent in 27 professional outings, rather surprisingly mentioning a fighter he defeated inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Most would suspect the American\u2019s \u201chardest fight\u201d came against Gervonta Davis, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/65364569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stopped \u2018King Ry\u2019 with a sickening seventh-round body shot<\/a> in their 2023 encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/rolando-romero-drops-and-shocks-ryan-garcia-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rolando Romero gave Garcia a tricky night\u2019s work<\/a> in May 2025, when he scored a second-round knockdown before winning unanimously on the judges\u2019 scorecards.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Haney, too, represented a difficult opponent when they collided in 2024, with Garcia edging a majority decision before testing positive for banned substance ostarine.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, his victory was overturned to a no-contest, following which Garcia completed a year-long suspension before returning to the ring against Romero.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, though, the reigning WBC world welterweight champion does not consider Davis, Romero or Haney to be his toughest opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the 27-year-old has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAZNBoxing\/status\/2049617375654482340?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told DAZN<\/a> that his most demanding assignment came against Oscar Duarte, who he eventually stopped with an eighth-round finish in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hardest fight was Oscar Duarte \u2013 the one that Richardson Hitchins ducked. I knocked him out, but he was hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duarte was supposed to face Hitchins in February, only for the then-IBF world super-lightweight champion to pull out of their contest on the morning of fight night.<\/p>\n<p>This was reportedly because Hitchins fell ill during his attempt to keep under 150lbs, as per the IBF\u2019s 10lb rehydration policy.<\/p>\n<p>While not having been given another world title shot, Duarte is now gearing up for his all-Mexican clash with Angel Fierro, which features on the undercard of Gilberto Ramirez vs David Benavidez this Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia has revealed his toughest opponent in 27 professional outings, rather surprisingly mentioning a fighter he defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-644587","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\/644587","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=644587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}