{"id":483243,"date":"2026-03-19T02:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483243\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:31:14","slug":"tim-bradley-says-ryan-garcia-is-not-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483243\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley Says Ryan Garcia Is Not Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770669047_552_google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Unlike many fans and experts, Bradley wasn\u2019t impressed with the improvements Ryan showed in his win against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios last February. He didn\u2019t see that victory as a signal that he\u2019d gotten better since his loss to Rolando \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Bradley dismissed the usual explanations that follow Ryan, including form, preparation, or circumstances. He wasn\u2019t talking about a bad night or a flawed performance. He was talking about the best version of Garcia and still coming to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou not that good, even the juiced-up Ryan Garcia,\u201d Bradley said on his YouTube site, brushing aside any argument that a fully prepared version would look different.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley tied that view to preparation on the other side of the ring. He believes Ryan, 27, is beatable for fighters who take the time to study him and come in with a plan, suggesting the distance isn\u2019t as complicated as it\u2019s often made out to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know the stuff that I know, you\u2019ll beat the hell out of Ryan Garcia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to habits that keep showing up, the same openings and reactions that opponents can key in on if they are paying attention. Bradley\u2019s tone made it sound like those issues have been there for a while and haven\u2019t really changed.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism wasn\u2019t tied to one fight or one opponent.\u00a0Bradley spoke in general terms about what he sees when he watches Garcia, pointing to habits and tendencies that, in his view, haven\u2019t been corrected.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s treating the current version of Ryan as a finished product and judging it accordingly. He feels that what Garcia has shown is as good as it gets with him, and he\u2019s not going to make any dramatic changes in his game.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll need to for him to defeat Devin Haney in their proposed rematch in September, because that\u2019s going to be a difficult fight this time. Haney has mastered his punch and grab style, and he\u2019s hard to hit before he grabs his opponents in a bear hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike many fans and experts, Bradley wasn\u2019t impressed with the improvements Ryan showed in his win against WBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483243","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\/483243","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=483243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}