{"id":835761,"date":"2026-11-15T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/835761\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T21:54:08","slug":"devin-haney-sees-only-one-winner-in-ryan-garcia-vs-teofimo-lopez-hell-beat-him-comfortably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/835761\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney sees only one winner in Ryan Garcia vs Teofimo Lopez: “He’ll beat him comfortably”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Haney<\/a> believes one man will claim a comfortable victory if Ryan Garcia<\/a> and Teofimo Lopez<\/a> end up colliding early next year.<\/p>\n

The two welterweight champions are potentially set to square off on February 6, irrespective of whether Lopez keeps hold of his WBA \u2018super\u2019 title.<\/p>\n

He claimed the belt \u2013 and, in doing so, became a three-division world champion \u2013 by dethroning Rolando Romero with a majority decision victory in August.<\/p>\n

One issue that could have prevented the unification clash between Lopez and Garcia from taking place was Lopez being ordered to make a mandatory defence of his WBA belt against \u2018regular\u2019 champion Jack Catterall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That could be about to change though, after The Ring reported<\/a> that the WBA have notified all relevant parties that Lopez still has the right to apply for a special permit to proceed with the unification battle against Garcia.<\/p>\n

After dethroning Mario Barrios with a points victory earlier this year, Garcia retained his WBC strap with a second-round finish over Conor Benn<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

As a result, WBO champion Haney has told Inside The Ring<\/a> that Garcia, based largely on his recent form, should be considered a sizable favourite against Lopez.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ryan will win comfortably. I don\u2019t think Teo is the same Teo that fought [Lomachenko in 2020] \u2026 [and] I think Ryan is just too twitchy, too fast [and] too confident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say we don\u2019t know what Ryan Garcia will show up, [but] I think we really don\u2019t know what Teofimo Lopez will show up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haney was floored three times and lost a majority decision to Garcia in 2024, only for the result to be ruled a no-contest after his opponent tested positive for banned substance ostarine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney believes one man will claim a comfortable victory if Ryan Garcia and Teofimo Lopez end up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-835761","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\/835761","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=835761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}