{"id":790998,"date":"2026-10-03T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790998\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:00:10","slug":"shawn-porter-sums-up-isaac-cruzs-chances-of-beating-ryan-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790998\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter sums up Isaac Cruz’s chances of beating Ryan Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn Porter has assessed Issac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz\u2019s chances of defeating Ryan Garcia, who called the Mexican out following his second-round stoppage of Conor Benn.<\/p>\n

It was a short night at the office for the American, who floored Benn with a crushing right hand<\/a> and retained his WBC title last month.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Garcia had become a world welterweight champion by dethroning Mario Barrios in February, landing that title shot despite losing a unanimous decision to Rolando Romero<\/a> in May 2025.<\/p>\n

Back then, \u2018King Ry\u2019 had just completed a year-long doping ban but was nonetheless considered a sizable favourite, perhaps because he edged a majority decision against Devin Haney before their April 2024 encounter was ruled a no-contest.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, Garcia then ended up producing a lacklustre performance against Romero but, since then, has shown signs of improvement against Barrios and Benn.<\/p>\n

Cruz, meanwhile, is coming off a sixth-round knockout over Nestor Bravo and, in doing so, maintained his status as a tenacious super-lightweight contender.<\/p>\n

At 147lbs, however, former two-time world champion Porter has suggested on his podcast<\/a> that Pitbull would strip himself of any physical advantages.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it would be a huge surprise if Pitbull were to come up to 147[lbs] and really challenge Ryan Garcia. The Ryan that we\u2019ve seen lately [against Barrios and Benn] \u2026 we saw the speed, the power, the agility [and] the talent that we hadn\u2019t seen [previously].<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s maturing into his prime, and that\u2019s who he\u2019s going to be [from now on] \u2013 he\u2019s going to be jab-first, very quick with that straight right hand, some power with that right hand as well, and winging that [left] hook like he\u2019s always done.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, that is a lot for Pitbull Cruz, who still has not mastered, or even developed, a way of being able to move and punch at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter went on to highlight other offensive and defensive flaws which, he believes, would contribute to an emphatic defeat against Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter has assessed Issac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz\u2019s chances of defeating Ryan Garcia, who called the Mexican out following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790998","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\/790998","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=790998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}