{"id":888004,"date":"2026-09-11T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888004\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:06:18","slug":"white-confirms-interest-in-signing-ryan-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888004\/","title":{"rendered":"White Confirms Interest In Signing Ryan Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White says <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> is on Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s radar once his current promotional deal runs out, calling him one of several fighters the company is betting on for their commercial appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s guys that you bet on. You bet on certain guys, and we&#8217;re bringing in him, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/shakur-stevenson\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a>, and a lot of other guys, and hopefully Ryan when his deal is up. But yeah, there&#8217;s guys you bet on. And I bet on Conor Benn all day on the business side. The guy&#8217;s box office. A guy you can build a business around,&#8221; White<\/p>\n<p>While Zuffa already has Benn and Stevenson on its roster, Garcia would add a different kind of value \u2014 a massive American following that draws attention regardless of opponent or outcome. White&#8217;s public comments come during Garcia&#8217;s fight week against Benn, a timing that could also boost Garcia&#8217;s leverage in future negotiations with Golden Boy Promotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White says Ryan Garcia is on Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s radar once his current promotional deal runs out, calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-888004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888004","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=888004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}