{"id":670301,"date":"2026-07-02T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670301\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:54:11","slug":"terence-crawford-says-ryan-garcia-will-lose-world-title-if-he-faces-one-man-next-itll-be-an-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670301\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford says Ryan Garcia will lose world title if he faces one man next: “It’ll be an upset”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> suspects Ryan Garcia<\/a> could lose his WBC title later this year, depending on whether he faces a physically superior opponent.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old claimed his world welterweight title in February, dethroning Mario Barrios with a unanimous decision victory after scoring a first-round knockdown.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Garcia returned to the win column after suffering a points defeat to Rolando Romero<\/a>, which followed his no-contest against Devin Haney in April 2024.<\/p>\n

Sandwiched between those two results was, of course, his year-long doping ban, but now it seems the American has rediscovered some measure of form.<\/p>\n

Hoping to build on this momentum, Garcia is likely to defend his title against mandatory challenger Conor Benn, potentially in Las Vegas on September 12.<\/p>\n

Like Garcia, Benn was previously embroiled in a doping scandal but has since been involved in two middleweight encounters with Chris Eubank Jr, losing their first contest before scoring a unanimous decision victory last November.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old then unanimously outpointed a faded Regis Prograis<\/a> this past April, dominating their 10-rounder at a catchweight of 150lbs.<\/p>\n

Given his apparent size advantage, Crawford has told Ariel Helwani<\/a> that he could see Benn pulling off an upset victory over Garcia later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a good fight. I think, of course, Ryan\u2019s got the experience, but Conor\u2019s got the size and the power.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s gonna be an interesting fight \u2026 I\u2019mma go with Conor. I think he\u2019s gonna upset him. I\u2019m gonna go out there and pick him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Benn has been competing at higher weights in his last five outings, he does not appear significantly bigger than Garcia, who matches him for height and is perhaps even a bigger puncher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford suspects Ryan Garcia could lose his WBC title later this year, depending on whether he faces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670301","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\/670301","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=670301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}