Garcia won 15 national amateur titles before turning professional in 2016 and earning a first-round TKO victory on his debut.<\/p>\n
He began his career as a lightweight but also featured at super-featherweight as he stitched together a 20-fight win streak.<\/p>\n
Garcia beat Briton Luke Campbell by seventh-round TKO to win the interim WBC lightweight title.<\/p>\n
His first career loss came in his 24th bout when he was stopped in round seven by fellow American Gervonta Davis.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Garcia was handed a shot at WBC light-welterweight champion Devin Haney but he missed weight and was not eligible to claim the belt after picking up a decision victory.<\/p>\n
That result was later overturned to a no-contest; Garcia was also handed a one-year suspension after failing a drugs test.<\/p>\n
Garcia lost to Rolly Romero on his return in May 2025 but bounced back with a decision win over Barrios in February to claim his first world title.<\/p>\n
Like Garcia, Benn turned professional in 2016 and enjoyed a similarly stunning start to his career, winning his first 23 fights.<\/p>\n
In 2023, he was also suspended from boxing for failing two voluntary drugs tests.<\/p>\n
His ban was lifted by the National Anti-Doping Panel, although he remained suspended by the UK Anti-Doping Agency (Ukad) and was unable to fight in the UK.<\/p>\n
He fought twice in the United States – beating Rodolfo Orozco and Peter Dobson – before his ban was eventually lifted following a two-year battle with Ukad and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC).<\/p>\n
Benn’s first fight back in the UK ended in defeat against Eubank in April 2025, but he avenged what remains his sole career loss seven months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garcia won 15 national amateur titles before turning professional in 2016 and earning a first-round TKO victory on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-884448","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\/884448","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=884448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}