Garcia is proven at the top level and enters as the favourite, bringing blinding hand speed and a fight-ending left hook.<\/p>\n
But Nigel Benn believes he has mapped out the exact antidote to Garcia’s firepower. He says his son should attack Garcia using suffocating, bobbing aggression – the kind that Nigel used to blow out Iran Barkley in 1990.<\/p>\n
“When he goes under pressure, what happens? He falls and his heart doesn’t go into it,” Nigel says.<\/p>\n
“For the first time, [Conor] is actually sitting there listening. He has to be not the destroyer, he has to be the Dark Destroyer. Controlled aggression.<\/p>\n
“Don’t give him room. Roll under his punches, left hook to the body, left hook to the head. He knows what to do.”<\/p>\n
The hostile Vegas spotlight, meanwhile, evokes memories of Benn senior’s ferocious 1995 battle with Gerald McClellan.<\/p>\n
“Everybody had me to be blown out within round three. Exactly the same thing as what they do with Conor,” Nigel says. “And I know he’s going to prevail.”<\/p>\n
Win, lose or draw, Nigel insists this time he will walk away for good and let Conor do his own thing.<\/p>\n
“I can walk out of that arena, go home, and be with my family, and that’s it,” Nigel says.<\/p>\n
Whether Nigel finally catches that one-way flight back to Sydney is another matter.<\/p>\n
If Conor leaves Las Vegas with the WBC belt around his waist, you would not bet against his father being back for defence number one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garcia is proven at the top level and enters as the favourite, bringing blinding hand speed and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-887914","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\/887914","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=887914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}