{"id":11285,"date":"2025-02-28T22:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-ryan-garcia-devin-haney-teofimo-lopez-to-fight-in-separate-bouts-in-times-square\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:44:01","slug":"boxing-ryan-garcia-devin-haney-teofimo-lopez-to-fight-in-separate-bouts-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-ryan-garcia-devin-haney-teofimo-lopez-to-fight-in-separate-bouts-in-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney &#038; Teofimo Lopez to fight in separate bouts in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">American star Teofimo Lopez and bitter rivals Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia will fight in separate bouts at an event held in Times Square in New York on 2 May.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lopez, 27, will defend his WBO light-welterweight title against Arnold Barboza Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Times Square event will feature three fights, with Lopez opening the bill and Garcia headlining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lopez, a two-weight world champion, has just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/59449865\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">one loss on his record<\/a> to George Kambosos Jr and has won his five fights since that defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haney and Garcia compete in separate fights with a view to staging their rematch in Saudi Arabia in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haney will fight at welterweight against Jose Ramirez and Garcia will face Rolando Romero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garcia, 26, has just served a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd1175e56x7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">one-year doping ban<\/a> and has not fought since his dramatic win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/68867643\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Haney in April 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American missed weight for that fight, pulled off an upset before the victory was overturned to a no-contest following a failed drug test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haney, 26, has also not fought since then and took a break from boxing after his first career loss to Garcia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cz031m18nypo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American star Teofimo Lopez and bitter rivals Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia will fight in separate bouts at an event held in Times Square in New York on 2 May. Lopez, 27, will defend his WBO light-welterweight title against Arnold Barboza Jr. The Times Square event will feature three fights, with Lopez opening the bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11287,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}