Garcia Says It's Mayweather on Feb. 6 — Nothing Is Signed

Label: RUMOR · Heat: WARM. This is an update to yesterday's Feb. 6 item, not a booking. Ryan Garcia has now amplified Kick's line that he has "just confirmed he will face floyd mayweather in his next fight." That is Garcia's word, and Kick's, via his repost. Mayweather's camp, the promoters and the commissions have not confirmed a fight.

AdinReports' caption, from a clip we have not reviewed, puts a date on it: "Ryan Garcia says he’s fighting Floyd Mayweather on February 6 in a real match that would put Floyd’s undefeated record on the line." We are quoting that caption only — not the stream.

fight.bz is not all the way there with him. Its post says: "JUST IN: Ryan Garcia has stated he will face either Floyd Mayweather or Teofimo Lopez on February 6." That is the same either/or we have been tracking in 193 and 222. Until someone else signs a contract, treat the Kick "confirmed" line and the fight.bz either/or as competing versions of Garcia's talk, not as a done deal.

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World Boxing News goes further, and that wording is WBN's. It reports Garcia saying "he'll put Floyd Mayweather in the hospital for two days" — a violent boast in WBN's write-up of the stream, not a medical claim — and says Garcia "confirmed a February 6, 2027 fight date." A later WBN post says "Ryan Garcia has announced their fight for February 6, 2027, in Las Vegas," adds that the WBC is "opening the door to a potential world title challenge," and floats an oldest-world-champion record by 253 days, with Mayweather "just 18 days away from turning 50." Those are WBN's figures and WBN's verbs. We are not adopting "announced" or "confirmed" as our own.

Garcia also reposted a BOXINGnBBQ post that reads, "So today WBC confirmed it WOULD allow Mayweather to fight for the official world title." We are not treating that caption as a fresh official WBC announcement — the clip looks recirculated — and the title-rules talk is the same ground already covered, with Mauricio Sulaiman's comments, in 286.

One more clock not to get ahead of: the WBA's ruling on the Teofimo Lopez–Jack Catterall–Garcia situation is due at 3 p.m. PT today (5 p.m. CST). That wrinkle is in 241. We are not going to preview the decision. Mayweather's 2027 name-drop list, including Garcia, is already in Kimster's 288.

Fighter pages: Ryan Garcia, Teofimo Lopez.

Also on the wire

A few other lines from today, all unsigned or already-booked color, not new official fight announcements:

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• The Ring says Katie Taylor "believes Alycia Baumgardner vs Caroline Dubois is the biggest fight to make currently in women’s boxing." That one still isn't signed; see 266. Dubois already has an official Feb. 20 unification with Stephanie Han.
• Boxing News quotes Adam Azim ahead of his Dec. 4 IBF eliminator with Gabriel Valenzuela: "Look, I've got Gabriel Valenzuela [that] I'm not looking past." Then: "But like I said, once I win a world title, I want Ben [Shalom] to call [Eddie] Hearn the next day and make that fight happen" — the fight being a domestic clash with Dalton Smith. He also said, "I want to go for the stoppage."
• WBN quotes Darius Fulghum, ahead of Diego Pacheco on Nov. 14: "When I beat Pacheco I still won’t get credit. They will just discredit him. I just want to do my thing. I can’t control the spin."
• Bad Left Hook reports Dana White saying Jai Opetaia can break through as a mainstream star with a win over Deontay Wilder. That is color on a fight that is already being built; it is not a new booking.

If Feb. 6 actually gets a poster, do you want Mayweather or Teofimo — or do you still not believe either one is real? Tell us in the comments, then make your picks in Fight Picks or browse BoxBid Play.

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