{"id":727917,"date":"2026-08-05T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727917\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T04:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:48:08","slug":"ryan-garcia-predicts-rolando-romero-vs-teofimo-lopez-after-losing-to-rolly-he-has-his-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727917\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia predicts Rolando Romero vs Teofimo Lopez after losing to Rolly: “He has his number”"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a desire to face the winner in a unification match, Ryan Garcia<\/a> has offered his prediction for Rolando Romero<\/a>\u2019s WBA welterweight title defence against Teofimo Lopez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair will collide at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena on August 22, with Romero entering his first fight since unanimously outpointing Garcia in May 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back then, the result came as a sizable upset, especially with \u2018Rolly\u2019 scoring a second-round knockdown to widen the margin of his victory.<\/p>\n

The American was then upgraded from \u2018Regular\u2019 to full WBA champion and, despite his inactivity, has been afforded the chance to make a voluntary defence of his title.<\/p>\n

This will arrive against Lopez who, following his unanimous decision defeat to Shakur Stevenson<\/a> in January, has moved up to 147lbs and is bidding to become a three-weight world champion.<\/p>\n

And despite the comprehensive nature of his loss to Stevenson, \u2018The Takeover\u2019 has been made a clear favourite against Romero, whose achievements pale in comparison to his wins over the likes of Vasyl Lomachenko and Josh Taylor.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but the sparring footage of several years ago suggests that Lopez is capable of outboxing his opponent through large portions of their upcoming encounter.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Ring Magazine<\/a>, Garcia has expressed his own belief that the 29-year-old will emerge victorious against Romero.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to fight [the winner of Romero-Lopez]. That\u2019s what I want to end my Golden Boy [contract] with.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably Teofimo [will win]. I feel like Teofimo has his number. I think the sparring is going to play a part.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re both going to have a sense of hesitation, because of the sparring, but when Teofimo really believes in himself, [he\u2019s hard to beat]. He didn\u2019t seem like he was confident with Shakur at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think, in this fight [against Romero], he knows what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

With two fights remaining on his contract with DAZN and Golden Boy, Garcia must first retain his WBC title against Conor Benn on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a desire to face the winner in a unification match, Ryan Garcia has offered his prediction for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727917","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\/727917","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=727917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}