{"id":804571,"date":"2026-10-16T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804571\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:48:08","slug":"amir-khan-sums-up-floyd-mayweathers-chances-of-beating-ryan-garcia-in-comeback-fight-at-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804571\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan sums up Floyd Mayweather’s chances of beating Ryan Garcia in comeback fight at 49"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amir Khan<\/a> has admitted that Floyd Mayweather could beat Ryan Garcia<\/a>, depending on which version of the American shows up for their potential contest.<\/p>\n

Despite being 49 years old, the former five-division world champion has been linked to a showdown against Garcia<\/a>, who comes off a successful defence of his WBC title.<\/p>\n

He became a world welterweight champion by dethroning Mario Barrios in February<\/a>, scoring a unanimous decision victory after losing to Rolando Romero in May 2025.<\/p>\n

Prior to that defeat, the American served a year-long doping ban and his career, by extension, seemed as if it could be in serious jeopardy.<\/p>\n

But now, following his second-round stoppage of Conor Benn<\/a> in September, Garcia is considered a top-level operator and one of the sport\u2019s biggest stars.<\/p>\n

As for Mayweather, the Hall of Famer is far removed from his prime but, regardless, Khan has suggested that the masterful technician could still defeat Garcia in a professional contest.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Boyle Sports<\/a>, the former world champion expressed this view while also criticising Mayweather for even mentioning Garcia\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was even half of the Mayweather we saw in his last couple of proper fights [before Conor McGregor], he would still give Ryan Garcia problems. But why would Ryan risk that against an older guy where he knows he can get beat?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look good on the record. I wouldn\u2019t entertain it. I think Mayweather is jumping on the bandwagon for a bit of PR because Ryan Garcia is a superstar in boxing now. I can see what Mayweather is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khan added that he believes Mayweather is merely sniffing around for a lucrative payday, given his alleged financial issues in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amir Khan has admitted that Floyd Mayweather could beat Ryan Garcia, depending on which version of the American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804571","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\/804571","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=804571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}