{"id":889176,"date":"2026-09-12T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889176\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:08:16","slug":"conor-benn-shows-dramatic-rehydration-ahead-of-ryan-garcia-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889176\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn Shows Dramatic Rehydration Ahead Of Ryan Garcia Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-msn-disclosure=\"commission\">This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/affiliate-disclosure\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-bone transition-colors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affiliate disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Benn revealed just how much weight he put back on after making 146 pounds for his fight with <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> (145.5), posting video of himself back on the scale at 178.4 pounds \u2014 albeit while clothed \u2014 following the rehydration process.<\/p>\n<p>Benn had spoken openly about the difficulty of returning to 147 pounds, a weight he hasn&#8217;t fought at since 2022 after campaigning as high as <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> against Chris Eubank Jr. He&#8217;s also said this will be his final fight in the division.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Get tickets: <a href=\"http:\/\/boxingnews.com\/api\/tickets\/click?country=us&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DGarcia%2520vs%2520Benn&amp;slug=ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-2026-09-12&amp;placement=article-body-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"ticketmaster\" data-placement=\"article-body-1\">Buy tickets to Garcia vs Benn on Ticketmaster \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The size of the rehydration has drawn some skepticism, though the bigger question now shifts to how it affects him once the fight starts, with concerns raised about punch resistance and stamina after such a dramatic swing in weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our affiliate disclosure. Conor Benn revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-889176","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\/889176","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=889176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}