{"id":439876,"date":"2026-02-22T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:27:09","slug":"ryan-garcia-beats-mario-barrios-and-becomes-new-wbc-welterweight-champion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439876\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia beats Mario Barrios and becomes new WBC welterweight champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fellow American Stevenson, 28, smiled, nodded his head and clapped as Garcia added: “I want to be a great champion, I’m not scared. <\/p>\n

“I fought Devin Haney. I’ll fight you, Shakur Stevenson. I’ll fight anybody.” <\/p>\n

Garcia was then told Stevenson had said he was “levels above” him right now, to which he replied: “You’ve got to have some type of punching power to get me off you, because it’ll just be a different style – and I’m not going to hit him light.” <\/p>\n

Garcia was given a one-year ban <\/a>for failing a drugs test in 2024 after beating Haney, with the victory overturned and the fight recorded as a ‘no contest’.<\/p>\n

The win for Garcia was his first since a shock points loss to Rolando Romero<\/a> last year and improves his record to 25 victories and two defeats.<\/p>\n

Barrios was upgraded from interim to full WBC champion in June 2024 and had made two previous successful defences via draws, retaining his title<\/a> with a majority draw against a then 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fellow American Stevenson, 28, smiled, nodded his head and clapped as Garcia added: “I want to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439876","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\/439876","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=439876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}