{"id":729094,"date":"2026-06-11T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729094\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:41:09","slug":"golden-boy-sends-cease-and-desist-to-zuffa-over-ryan-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729094\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Boy sends cease-and-desist to Zuffa over Ryan Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Boy Promotions has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Zuffa Boxing and parent company TKO Group alleging interference with its contracted fighter <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/ryan-garcia\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legal demand, first reported by ESPN, centers on what Golden Boy claims is improper contact regarding a potential matchup between Garcia and Conor Benn. Garcia currently holds a WBC title and remains under promotional contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>&#8216;s outfit.<\/p>\n<p>What the cease-and-desist alleges about Zuffa&#8217;s Garcia outreach<\/p>\n<p>The letter reportedly seeks to halt any direct negotiations between Zuffa representatives and Garcia&#8217;s team without Golden Boy&#8217;s involvement. Zuffa Boxing, which launched last year under the TKO umbrella that also owns UFC, has been building a boxing roster and expressed interest in major <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> matchups.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Zuffa nor Garcia&#8217;s management have publicly responded to the cease-and-desist. The Garcia-Benn fight has been discussed for months but no formal agreement has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Boy has not indicated whether it plans further legal action if the alleged interference continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Reported via:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/49025796\/golden-boy-sends-cd-letter-claims-ryan-garcia-interference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN Boxing<\/a> \u2014 Golden Boy claims Zuffa interfering with Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Boy Promotions has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Zuffa Boxing and parent company TKO Group alleging interference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-729094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729094","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=729094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}