{"id":439300,"date":"2026-02-22T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439300\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:12:07","slug":"ryan-garcia-sets-his-sights-on-one-man-after-dominating-barrios-to-become-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439300\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia sets his sights on one man after dominating Barrios to become world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a> already has his next target in mind after a dominant performance against Mario Barrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garcia finally achieved his lifelong dream of becoming world champion when he defeated Barrios by unanimous decision<\/a> at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to win the WBC welterweight title.<\/p>\n

\u2018King Ry\u2019 dropped Barrios in the opening round of the bout, and went on to dominate from that point onwards, with the three judges scoring the bout 120-107, 119-108, 118-109 in his favour.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take Garcia long to make his intentions perfectly clear following the win, revealing in his post-fight press conference that he now wants a showdown against newly-crowned WBO super-lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know who I want, Shakur Stevenson let\u2019s go. I want to be a great champion. I\u2019m not scared. I\u2019ll fight Devin Haney, I\u2019ll fight Shakur Stevenson. Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia then stated what he thinks the difference would be in a battle against Stevenson.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to have some kind of punching power to get me off you. I\u2019m not going to hit him light. I want that fight. Shakur let\u2019s get it. I want that work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson became a four-weight world champion last month when he stepped up to 140lbs and defeated Teofimo Lopez<\/a> by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n

The unbeaten star has previously claimed that any bouts at 147lbs would need a rehydration clause, but has also said he would be happy to fight at a catchweight at 144lbs, so that could be a way to ensure that the clash could indeed happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia already has his next target in mind after a dominant performance against Mario Barrios. Garcia finally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439300","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\/439300","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=439300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}