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DALLAS, TEXAS – JANUARY 2: Ryan Garcia reacts after defeating Luke Campbell during the WBC interim lightweight title fight at the American Airlines Center on January 2, 2021, in Dallas, Texas. Tim Warner / Getty Images / AFP
MANILA, Philippines – Ryan Garcia has yet to break the top echelon of his generation, but he’s already looking at the best dog of the previous one.
In an interview with DAZN ahead of his fight against Luke Campbell, Garcia said that he would like to fight Manny Pacquiao in 2021 in a fight that he said would be the culmination of his dream.
The now-interim WBC lightweight champion has since knocked out Campbell in his fight Sunday and his career path also includes a fight against Gervonta Davis, but it’s the Pacquiao fight he’s interested in making a reality.
“My dream is to beat ‘Tank’ Davis and then I’ll end up having a chance to fight Manny Pacquiao before he leaves,” said Garcia, who stopped Campbell in the seventh round. “Because he is one of my idols. He’s one of those people that I look up to, and I think he’s the last great legend who, after Muhammad Ali and all the other legends, is one of those. “
“Then it will be an honor to be in the ring with him.”
Garcia, however, is two weight classes down from Pacquiao, the WBA welterweight world champion, and the 147-pound division is already packed with fighters ready to take on the Filipino icon, including the two-belt holder. Errol Spence, owner of the WBC and IBF belts.
However, Garcia is keen to welcome Pacquiao back to lightweight or welterweight.
“Or 140, 147, I don’t care, I just want to be in the ring with him,” said Garcia, who also wants to shoot the undisputed king of lightweight, Teofimo Lopez.
A potential fight between López, owner of The Ring, WBA Super, IBF, WBO and WBC Franchise lightweight titles, and WBC champion Devin Haney could happen and Garcia hopes to face the winner of that fight for all belts. of 135 lbs.
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