will also be fighting on September 12<\/a>, albeit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, so it\u2019s possible that the two shows could happen on the same date in very different time zones, which would lead to Canelo vs Mbilli wrapping up about when the Garcia vs Benn undercard would be starting.<\/p>\n\u201cI can say that we are fighting September 12th, it will be in Vegas,\u201d Garcia told Fallon. \u201cI\u2019ll just say his name. His name is Conor Benn. And he\u2019s talking a lot, he\u2019s talking crazy. He actually confronted me at an award show two years ago, and my wife was there he just pressed up on me, grabbed me. Yeah, so it\u2019s a little personal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia (25-2, 20 KO) beat Mario Barrios to win the WBC welterweight title on February 21 in Las Vegas, while Benn (25-1, 14 KO) labored through a fairly unimpressive decision victory over a clearly physically compromised Regis Prograis on April 11 in London.<\/p>\n
Benn, 29, has not actually made the welterweight limit for a fight since April 2022, when he beat Chris van Heerden, the last fight he had before failing a drug test that put his career on hold for about a year and delayed a fight with Chris Eubank Jr for nearly three years.<\/p>\n
Garcia, 27, also had a doping scandal in 2024, following a now-overturned win over Devin Haney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia announced a fight with Conor Benn last night on \u201cLate Night,\u201d telling host Jimmy Fallon that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-681077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}