{"id":525596,"date":"2026-04-11T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:31:09","slug":"ryan-garcia-sets-sights-on-one-man-after-u-turn-on-teofimo-lopez-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525596\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia sets sights on one man after u-turn on Teofimo Lopez fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia<\/a> appears to have had a change of plan when it comes to his future, seemingly looking elsewhere after previously announcing his next opponent.<\/p>\n

\u2018King Ry\u2019 dominated his clash against Mario Barrios back in February, utilising the right-hook, rather than his trademark left, to catch \u2018El Azteca\u2019 by surprise and comfortably claim a unanimous decision win to finally get his hands on world honours.<\/p>\n

That triumph seemed to tee up a grudge match rematch and now title unification against fierce rival and WBO welterweight champion Devin Haney, but the latter was instead targeting an alternate champion in Rolando Romero (WBA).<\/p>\n

Then, at the beginning of the month, Garcia revealed that he would be taking on Teofimo Lopez on Saturday, July 25<\/a>, but collapsed talks for a fight between Haney and Romero seem to have intervened on those plans.<\/p>\n

Instead, on a Kick<\/a> stream, Garcia told UFC lightweight title hopeful Arman Tsarukyan that he is currently hoping that the Haney rematch can happen next.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, [it is Devin Haney next]. He doesn\u2019t really want to call me out, I put a lot of fear into him last time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, WBC mandatory challenger Conor Benn is intending on fighting Garcia later this year<\/a>, but a unification bout between Garcia and Haney would trump any mandated fight between Benn and the WBC champion.<\/p>\n

Haney-Garcia II was previously touted for September, with Haney wanting a fight beforehand, seeking to give himself the optimal chance to right the wrongs of their initial encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia appears to have had a change of plan when it comes to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525596","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\/525596","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=525596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}