{"id":903148,"date":"2026-09-20T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903148\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:02:12","slug":"ryan-garcia-names-the-welterweight-champions-legacy-hed-rather-have-than-floyd-mayweathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903148\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia names the welterweight champion’s legacy he’d rather have than Floyd Mayweather’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a> is looking to take over both the welterweight division and the sport of boxing as a whole, but there is one fighter whose legacy Garcia is hoping to emulate, believing his greatness surpasses that of modern icon Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

Mayweather retired with a 50-0 professional record, but he has been linked to a comeback this year<\/a>, with a potential rematch against Manny Pacquiao<\/a> now being targeted for 2027 if reports are to be believed.<\/p>\n

However, whilst \u2018TBE\u2019 retired without a loss to his name, Garcia believes that Mayweather\u2019s \u20180\u2019 is not as important as others see it to be and that the 49-year-old protected his unbeaten streak by carefully selecting his opponents.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Club Shay Shay<\/a>, Garcia declared that he would prefer to be remembered like Sugar Ray Leonard<\/a> rather than Mayweather, insinuating that he plans to take on the best available fighters at all times in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would rather be [Sugar Ray] Leonard than Floyd, in my heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Floyd] ducked in a very strategic way, he ain\u2019t duck, but he [was like], \u2018ooh, not right now\u2026 okay I will do it now.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did it a little bit more intelligently, I guess, it was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want him right now, he looking a little too nice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

When pushed further on his words, \u2018King Ry\u2019 outlined some possible fights than Mayweather failed to deliver at certain points in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there were certain moments where he could have gave us the real fights at the right time. I think that he could have fought guys like Shane Mosley [earlier], but he says he was calling Shane Mosley out at the right time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could even have fought Paul Williams before he got in that accident. He could have fought Pacquiao a little earlier, that\u2019s the major one, everybody knows that one though. Oscar [De La Hoya], that wasn\u2019t his fault but he did get Oscar a little late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leonard ruled as a five-division world champion and Olympic gold medalist who defeated some of boxing\u2019s greatest names, including Roberto Dur\u00e1n, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler<\/p>\n

As for Garcia, following his win over Conor Benn last weekend, he is expected to next target a unification clash with WBA welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia is looking to take over both the welterweight division and the sport of boxing as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-903148","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\/903148","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=903148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}