{"id":774757,"date":"2026-09-18T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:50:09","slug":"tony-bellew-predicts-ryan-garcia-vs-terence-crawford-stay-away-from-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774757\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew predicts Ryan Garcia vs Terence Crawford: “Stay away from him\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following his win over Conor Benn, Ryan Garcia<\/a> has been calling for a shot at Terence Crawford<\/a>, despite the retirement of the former pound-for-pound number one, and former WBC cruiserweight ruler Tony Bellew has made his prediction for that possible bout.<\/p>\n

Garcia and Crawford have been going back-and-forth in recent weeks, with \u2018King Ry\u2019 seeking to tempt the Omaha southpaw out of retirement for a lucrative all-American showdown that could potentially see Garcia become the \u2018face of boxing\u2019.<\/p>\n

On Saturday in Las Vegas, Garcia needed only two rounds to dispatch of Benn<\/a> as he made a first successful defence of his WBC welterweight crown, before proceeding to call out Crawford during the aftermath.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Stomping Ground<\/a>\u00a0after witnessing that two-round beatdown of Benn, Bellew advised Garcia to steer well clear of Crawford, favouring the 39-year-old veteran to come out on top in spite of his spell away from the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Garcia] can\u2019t go anywhere near Bud [Crawford]. No, he is too clever, he is too smart. Trust me, he can\u2019t go anywhere near Bud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is someone who is a pretty clean liver, Terence Crawford knows what he is doing, trust me. He is a problem. You do not want to be going into rounds 10, 11 and 12 with someone like Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not going to beat Terence Crawford.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Crawford not yet reciprocating Garcia\u2019s keenness for the clash, it seems as though the latter will instead move on to a welterweight unification bout against WBA titleholder Teofimo Lopez<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his win over Conor Benn, Ryan Garcia has been calling for a shot at Terence Crawford, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774757","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\/774757","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=774757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}