{"id":890299,"date":"2026-09-13T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890299\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:38:10","slug":"highlights-garcia-destroys-benn-with-massive-early-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890299\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights! Garcia Destroys Benn With Massive Early Knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\/470478\/ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-live-streaming-results-video-highlights-paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threw down last night<\/a> (Sat., Sept. 12, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada for \u201cKing Ry\u2019s\u201d WBC Welterweight strap in what was his first attempt to defend the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Unfortunately for fight fans, it didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">From the jump, Benn came out the aggressor and was determined to be the one to dictate the pace of the fight. He had Garcia on his heels for a bit, but that was not bothering Garcia one bit since he loves to counter-strike. And he did that perfectly, clipping \u201cThe Destroyer\u201d with a few left hooks to take the opening round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In round two, it was much of the same with Benn looking to be the aggressor early on but ate a nice uppercut that got his attention. After missing with his patented left hook, Garcia swiftly unloaded a massive right hand that clipped Benn right on the chin and dropped him like a bag of cement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Benn was able to answer the 10-count, but Garcia wasted little time in going in for the kill and started to unload one shot after another. To his credit, Benn was able to take some of them and avoid a few, but \u201cKing Ry\u2019s\u201d attack was just too much and the referee on duty ultimately stepped in to put an end to the punishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With the win, not only did Garcia earn his first-ever title defense, but he put the rest of the division on blast that he won\u2019t rely solely on his left hook, showing off his all-around striking attack that will give his foes more to gameplan for in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Checkout some of the highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">During his post-fight speech, Garcia called out WBC Super Welterweight title holder, Teofimo Lopez, for his next challenge. As Teo was making his way to the ring, security apparently wasn\u2019t having it, which ultimately caused a semi-chaotic scene ringside as Lopez was determined to take part in a faceoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But, it was not to be; however, fight fans now have a big fight to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn threw down last night (Sat., Sept. 12, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85,114155],"class_list":["post-890299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890299","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=890299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}