{"id":546541,"date":"2026-04-23T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:26:20","slug":"ryan-garcia-says-he-only-wants-to-face-one-man-next-i-dont-want-anybody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546541\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia says he only wants to face one man next: “I don’t want anybody else”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia<\/a> has been linked to a number of opponents for his next outing but he says there is only one man he is targeting.<\/p>\n

After a number of years as one of the biggest names in the sport, Garcia finally became world champion in February when he claimed a dominant unanimous decision win over Mario Barrios<\/a> at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to win the WBC welterweight title.<\/p>\n

Since that victory, \u2018King Ry\u2019 has been rumoured to make his return against several different rivals, including WBO champion Devin Haney, WBA champion Rolly Romero, and two-weight world champion Teofimo Lopez.<\/p>\n

For one reason or another, all of those fights have failed to materialise, and a new frontrunner to take on Garcia has emerged in recent weeks, after British star Conor Benn defeated Regis Prograis at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this month.<\/p>\n

After his win, Benn immediately called out \u2018King Ry\u2019 for a world title showdown, and Garcia was quick to respond as a war of words began between the two fighters.<\/p>\n

In a new video captured by Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Garcia has now ruled out taking on anybody else and says that Benn is the only man that he wants to face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait man. It\u2019s going to be August. [I don\u2019t want] Nobody [else]. I only want Conor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn is ranked number one with the WBC in their welterweight rankings, so a clash against \u2018King Ry\u2019 seemed a formality, though Garcia\u2019s promoter Oscar De La Hoya has revealed a potential stumbling block with the fight.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia has been linked to a number of opponents for his next outing but he says there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-546541","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\/546541","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=546541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}