{"id":865141,"date":"2026-08-20T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865141\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:50:09","slug":"ryan-garcia-names-the-man-to-beat-shakur-stevenson-im-siding-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865141\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia names the man to beat Shakur Stevenson: “I’m siding with him\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a> has named the fighter that he believes can put an end to Shakur Stevenson<\/a>\u2019s 25-fight undefeated record.<\/p>\n

Stevenson stepped up in weight to dominate Teofimo Lopez and claim the WBO super-lightweight title back in January<\/a>, fully intending on returning to his natural lightweight division during the aftermath, until those plans were derailed when he was stripped of his 135lb title.<\/p>\n

As a result, Stevenson has kept hold of his 140lb marble but has not fought since, despite links to a showdown with Garcia in spring, which collapsed when the Newark southpaw declared that he would not be willing to move up in weight once again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Garcia is scheduled to face Conor Benn next month, whilst Stevenson has recently signed with Zuffa Boxing and is searching for an opponent for his second outing of 2026.<\/p>\n

Speaking to FightHype<\/a>, Garcia revealed that he would favour IBF lightweight world champion Raymond Muratalla to come out on top if he and Stevenson collide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be a good a** fight. He [Muratalla] is smart, he is not going to just go in there and just [be reckless].<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think that Raymond has a lot of things that would give Shakur problems. It won\u2019t be an easy fight for Shakur, that is for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[If it was] a three-round fight, I would give it to Shakur, even a six-round fight. A 12-round fight? I am siding with Muratalla.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muratalla is set to vacate his IBF crown and move into the super-lightweight division imminently, with the WBO having recently stated that he could be named as Stevenson\u2019s mandatory challenger when he does.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia has named the fighter that he believes can put an end to Shakur Stevenson\u2019s 25-fight undefeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-865141","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\/865141","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=865141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}