{"id":371205,"date":"2026-01-15T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371205\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:07:21","slug":"ryan-garcia-v-mario-barrios-wbc-welterweight-title-fight-set-for-21-february-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371205\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia v Mario Barrios: WBC welterweight title fight set for 21 February in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barrios was upgraded from interim to full WBC champion in June 2024 and has made two successful defences via draws.<\/p>\n

He retained his title with a majority draw<\/a> against 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao in July.<\/p>\n

Barrios has won 29 of his 33 fights, with 18 victories by knockout.<\/p>\n

“Becoming WBC welterweight world champion was more than a moment – it was a promise to my family, my city and everyone who believed in the grind when no-one was watching,” he said.<\/p>\n

“San Antonio built me, and every sacrifice I’ve made comes with me into that ring.”<\/p>\n

Garcia’s meeting with Haney in April 2024 was scheduled to be for the WBC light-welterweight title, but Garcia missed weight and was not eligible to win the belt.<\/p>\n

He has sealed 20 of his 24 victories by knockout.<\/p>\n

In December the WBC confirmed Britain’s Conor Benn as number one in the welterweight rankings. He could be next in line to face the winner of Barrios-Garcia.<\/p>\n

Benn said at the time he would be “watching closely”.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be coming for that belt and Britain will have a new world champion,” he said on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barrios was upgraded from interim to full WBC champion in June 2024 and has made two successful defences…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}