{"id":888092,"date":"2026-09-11T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888092\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:52:17","slug":"garcia-blocks-benn-from-using-larger-gloves-if-he-misses-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888092\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia blocks Benn from using larger gloves if he misses weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ryan Garcia is so concerned that Conor Benn will miss weight that he contacted the Nevada State Athletic commission to make a rules request in case he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Benn has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/470806\/ryan-garcia-doesnt-want-to-hear-any-crybaby-s-t-from-conor-benn-over-weight-issues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made a big deal<\/a> of being able to hit 147 again after five years of fighting at higher weight classes. To Garcia, that sounds like the start of an excuse the U.K. fighter is cooking up to cover for an impending poor performance. It also may be part of a rules-bending plot from Team Benn to fight with larger gloves, so Garcia went to the NSAC to ensure it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In Nevada, fights contested above 148 pounds are done with 10-ounce gloves. Team Garcia went to the NSAC to ensure Garcia vs. Benn would go down with 8-ounce gloves even if Benn shows up north of 148.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI just wanted to make sure that if he does not come in on weight, I still want to use the weapons that I\u2019m used to using which are 8-ounce gloves,\u201d Garcia explained. \u201cSo it\u2019s more than just a cautionary thing in case he doesn\u2019t make weight that I still get to use 8-ounce gloves because that\u2019s why I fight at 147, and I don\u2019t want to fight with 10-ounce [gloves].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s more deadly with 8-ounce gloves, so that\u2019s why I did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s unclear whether Garcia truly believes Benn will miss weight or this is all just mental warfare leading up to their big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\/469133\/ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-full-fight-card-paramount-dazn-ppv-start-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican Independence Day event<\/a> at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada this Saturday September 12th. We\u2019ll find out soon \u2026 weigh-ins for the fight go down later today (Fri. Sept. 11th, 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia is so concerned that Conor Benn will miss weight that he contacted the Nevada State Athletic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-888092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888092","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=888092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}