{"id":675822,"date":"2026-07-06T00:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675822\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:11:24","slug":"ryan-garcia-says-american-rival-would-beat-jaron-ennis-youd-be-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675822\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia says American rival would beat Jaron Ennis: &#8220;You&#8217;d be surprised&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> has named one of his former foes as the man to defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/jaron-ennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaron Ennis<\/a>, who remains unbeaten following his super-welterweight triumph over Xander Zayas.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old became a two-division unified champion last Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/xander-zayas-vs-jaron-ennis-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dethroning Zayas with a seventh-round stoppage<\/a> after scoring three knockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the fleeting moments of vulnerability he showed in round three, it was a largely dominant performance from \u2018Boots\u2019, who now holds the WBO and WBA titles.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Ennis has taken himself one step closer towards becoming the undisputed king at 154lbs, where Sebastian Fundora and Josh Kelly are the respective WBC and IBF champions.<\/p>\n<p>But much of the talk, it seems, is about a potential all-American clash between \u2018Boots\u2019 and Vergil Ortiz Jr, who has not fought since his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46901302\/ortiz-runs-lubin-heated-faceoff-ennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">second-round finish over Erickson Lubin<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz now appears set to return to action later this year, possibly targeting a showdown with Ennis, who WBC champion Garcia believes would lose to Devin Haney.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Dream\u2019 claimed his WBO welterweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Brian Norman Jr in November, but seemingly has the frame and skillset to eventually campaign at 154lbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanGarcia\/status\/2072708605711962428?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Taking to social media<\/a>, Garcia revealed his hot take that not even Ennis, the naturally bigger man, would succeed in solving the puzzle of Haney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys would be surprised but Devin would actually beat Boots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You guys would be surprised but Devin would actually beat boots.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanGarcia\/status\/2072708605711962428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haney and Garcia collided in April 2024, with the latter claiming a majority decision victory \u2013 scoring three knockdowns \u2013 only for his triumph to subsequently be ruled a no-contest.<\/p>\n<p>This was because \u2018King Ry\u2019 tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance, for which he was dealt a year-long ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia has named one of his former foes as the man to defeat Jaron Ennis, who remains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675822","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\/675822","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=675822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}