By Boxing Bob Newman
Garcia came out in the first round and made a statement, dropping Barrios in the first 30 seconds with a right to the temple. Barrios survived the round, but continued to be on the receiving end of Garcia’s lightning fast jab and surprising right hands.
Garcia proceeded with a power boxing clinic- lightning fast left jabs and solid rights following up. Barrios was buckled early in the fifth, but remained on his feet.
Garcia continued to put on a master class for the remainder of the fight- delivering a consistently effective offense, remaining defensively responsible and laser focused. Garcia coasted to the greatest victory of his career with scores of 119-108, 120-107, 118-109. He improves to 25-3-2, 20 KOs. Barrios falls to 29-3-2, 18 KOs.
Garcia expressed the desire for his next fight to be against the new WBO Jr. Welterweight champion, Shakur Stevenson, This raises an interesting scenario. Stevenson was recently stripped of his WBC lightweight title for not complying with a WBC rule regarding the paying of 50% of a normal sanctioning fee when a WBC champ fights a “WBC special event.” Moving up in weight to fight for the title of a different organization, as he did against WBO champ Teofimo Lopez, counted as such a special event.
Given the fallout, would the WBC sanction such a fight? Shakur stated afterwards, that two big stars such as him and Garcia don’t need to have a title on the line and he would require the fight to be in the middle, such as 144 lb. Lots of interesting possibilities here.
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