{"id":847167,"date":"2026-08-07T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:28:17","slug":"conor-benn-makes-major-weight-decision-after-brutal-cut-to-147-for-ryan-garcia-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847167\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn makes major weight decision after ‘brutal’ cut to 147 for Ryan Garcia fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> has considered his welterweight future amid a gruelling training camp for his WBC world title challenge against Ryan Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair will square off for Garcia\u2019s strap on September 12, headlining a Zuffa Boxing and Golden Boy co-promoted show at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n

This represents a maiden title defence for \u2018King Ry\u2019, who claimed his belt by dethroning Mario Barrios with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, the American lost his 147lb debut against Rolando Romero, suffering a unanimous decision defeat after returning from a year-long doping ban.<\/p>\n

Since then, though, Garcia seems to have acclimatised to his new division, while Benn has not fought at welterweight since his second-round finish over Chris van Heerden<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

Following that performance, \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 tested positive for clomifene, a banned substance, and was removed from his scheduled middleweight encounter with Chris Eubank Jr.<\/p>\n

But the pair ended up revisiting their rivalry last year, with Benn losing their first encounter before unanimously outpointing Eubank in November.<\/p>\n

Given those two fights at 160lbs and one following bout against Regis Prograis at a catchweight of 150lbs, many \u2013 including former promoter Eddie Hearn \u2013 have questioned Benn\u2019s ability to cut back down to welterweight.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Ring Magazine<\/a>, Benn admits it has been a struggle to shave off the extra poundage as he gears up for his final roll of the dice at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard; it\u2019s brutal. This is my last fight at 147[lbs]. When I win the world title, I\u2019ll move on. I haven\u2019t made 147 for four years, so it\u2019s challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went up to 183lbs [after weighing in below 160lbs] for the Eubank fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn went on to say that he could fight as high as 168lbs in the future, but must first remain focused on keeping below 147lbs ahead of his clash with Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn has considered his welterweight future amid a gruelling training camp for his WBC world title challenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-847167","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\/847167","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=847167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}