{"id":853439,"date":"2026-08-13T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853439\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:58:08","slug":"mark-magsayo-vs-andres-cortes-opens-garcia-vs-benn-main-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853439\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Magsayo vs Andres Cortes opens Garcia vs Benn main card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Zuffa Boxing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Db9DKX8ygfb\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed today<\/a> that former featherweight champion Mark Magsayo and undefeated lightweight Andres Cortes, who shared a card in April, will meet in the main card opener for Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn on September 12th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cMagnifico\u201d Magsayo (29-2, 19 KO) has stayed largely under the radar since losing his belt, which he took from a one-armed Gary Russell Jr in 2022, in his first defense against Rey Vargas. He\u2019s gone 5-0 in that span, bouncing between 130 and 135 while picking up wins over the likes of Eduardo Ramirez, Jorge Mata, and most recently Feargal McCrory in his Zuffa debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cortes (25-0, 13 KO), himself a super featherweight bumped up by Zuffa\u2019s weird insistence on excluding in-betweener classes, has pursued contention with a sort of Achilles-and-the-Tortoise approach. He\u2019s fought and beaten a number of good-to-pretty-solid guys throughout his run, including Xavier Martinez in 2023, Abraham Nova a year later, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/live-boxing-updates\/114212\/zuffa-boxing-05-cortes-vs-garcia-live-results-and-updates-how-to-watch-start-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eridson Garcia in that same April main event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nice little \u201csh*t or get off the pot\u201d matchup that should put the winner within spitting distance of a title shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019ve waited for a night like this my whole career. I signed with Zuffa to be on the biggest shows,\u201d Magsayo said. \u201cAndres Cortes called me out, and I answered. He won\u2019t have his \u20180\u2019 after I get done with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThis is my opportunity to show the world what I can do. I\u2019m going to destroy Mark Magsayo on September 12,\u201d Cortes said. \u201cGrowing up in the gyms in Las Vegas, I dreamed of fighting on a platform like this in front of my people. The time has come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">21-year-old heavyweight Da\u2019Mazion Vanhouter (12-0, 9 KO) also sees action against Raphael Akpejiori (19-3, 18 KO), whom you may recall from nigh-instantaneous knockout losses to Arslanbek Makhmudov and Stephan Shaw.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing revealed today that former featherweight champion Mark Magsayo and undefeated lightweight Andres Cortes, who shared a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-853439","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\/853439","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=853439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}