Shakur Stevenson hits back at Ryan Garcia\u2019s dad over sensational knockout claim Associated Press | Kingryan – InstagramShakur Stevenson\u2019s latest social media attack came against Ryan Garcia\u2019s dad, who issued out a bold claim regarding the potential outcome of a future fight between his son and Stevenson. Stevenson siezed the WBC lightweight championship from Edwin De Los Santos in his second fight at 135 pounds on November 16, 2023. The former lineal super featherweight champion has gone after many top fighters since proving himself in the division, including WBA lightweight champ Gervonta Davis. He also pressed Ryan Garcia to grant him a fight after his bout with Devin Haney during a clubhouse chat in March. \u2018King Ry\u2019 accepted Stevenson\u2019s challenge by saying, \u201cIf I don\u2019t get the rematch with Tank [Davis], you have my word, we\u2019ll fight.\u201d Garcia has vocalized who he wants to fight next following his stunning unanimous decision win over Haney, where he scored three knockdowns in rounds eight, 10 and 11. Yet, he has not mentioned Stevenson as a fighter he\u2019s targeting. His father, Henry Garcia, has also been vocal following the upset victory. He issued strong words about Stevenson in an interview on Thaboxingvoice. \u201cIt would be the same result as Haney, and imma tell you why. We fought Shakur in the amateurs. People don\u2019t know this, but we fought him in the amateurs. Ryan was only 16-years-old, maybe going on 17. We kicked his a** in the first round. But they were grooming this dude for the Olympics. So we fell short by two points. But we kicked his a**, and Shakur knows it,\u201d the elder Garcia said when asked if his son would honor his word and give \u201cKiller Kurr\u201d a fight. \u201cBut I\u2019ll tell you this much, Ryan fights Shakur, he\u2019ll knock him out. Guarantee. Wobble him or knock him out.\u201d Stevenson got fired up once he caught wind of those comments. He came back with this retort on X on the morning of April 24. \u201cHis old a** been hating on me for years tell em im ready whenever,\u201d the lightweight contender wrote. Haney walked away from his fight with Garcia with a severely swollen face, accentuating the number \u201cRy\u201d did on him with his power punches. Despite Haney shooting down rumors that the 25-year-old broke his jaw, \u201cThe Dream\u201d has fallen out of top 10 pound-for-pound rankings. Therefore, \u201cKing Ryan\u2019s\u201d father making such a statement about Stevenson, who is a perfect 21-0 as a highly esteemed fighter rubbed the defensive specialist the wrong way. That said, Stevenson would have to jump up in weight again to take on the California native. The younger Garcia declared that he is done at 135 pounds and could be finished at 140 as well on the April 23 episode of the PBD podcast. He\u2019s set on fighting Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz at welterweight. Stevenson\u2019s camp could try to negotiate a bout at a catchweight around 143 pounds. But, adding an extra eight pounds for a fight against \u201cThe Flash\u201d could be too much too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shakur Stevenson hits back at Ryan Garcia\u2019s dad over sensational knockout claim Associated Press | Kingryan – InstagramShakur Stevenson\u2019s latest social media attack came against Ryan Garcia\u2019s dad, who issued out a bold claim regarding the potential outcome of a future fight between his son and Stevenson. Stevenson siezed the WBC lightweight championship from Edwin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}