{"id":308011,"date":"2025-11-26T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308011\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:34:13","slug":"ryan-garcia-reacts-to-conor-benn-callout-with-taunting-dig-at-promoter-eddie-hearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308011\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia reacts to Conor Benn callout with taunting dig at promoter Eddie Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ryan Garcia<\/a> has said he would be open to fighting Conor Benn<\/a> in the UK, while taking a jibe at the British star\u2019s promoter Eddie Hearn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a huge rematch on 15 November, Benn knocked down Chris Eubank Jr twice en route to a decision win<\/a>, gaining redemption after a points loss to his bitter rival<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

Having fought Eubank Jr at middleweight on both occasions, Benn is now keen to return to his preferred division<\/a> of welterweight, with ambitions of becoming a world champion for the first time.<\/p>\n

However, the 29-year-old is more-generally interested in big-name opponents<\/a>, including American Garcia. <\/p>\n

That said, both Benn and Garcia have been linked to a title shot against WBC champion Mario Barrios; if Garcia challenges and dethrones the Mexican-American, Benn may yet get a world-title fight and high-profile opponent in one fell swoop. <\/p>\n

Discussing the prospect of fighting Benn, Garcia told Covers.com<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t think he has a big presence in America, but I would be willing to go to the UK. I would definitely be willing to go to the UK to fight him. He seems like a fun match-up. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s gonna come crazy and throw bombs all night and thinks he\u2019s gonna overwhelm me, but he won\u2019t. But I would love to fight him. I love fighting Eddie Hearn fighters, I don\u2019t know why, I just love to beat them up. <\/p>\n

\"Ryan<\/p>\n

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Ryan Garcia (right) dropped Devin Haney three times in a points victory in 2024, but the result was overturned when Garcia failed a drug test (AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just makes you want to beat his fighters up. It\u2019s just the way he talks, the way he moves, I can\u2019t wait to look at his face and say: \u2018I did it again.\u2019 That would bring so much joy to me, almost more than a championship title. I would be ecstatic just to see Eddie’s face, sad and confused.<\/p>\n

\u201cI beat Luke Campbell, Devin Haney<\/a> \u2013 he was representing him, I beat him. I\u2019m ready to beat up Conor now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Garcia, 27, was referencing his 2024 bout with compatriot Haney, whom Garcia dropped three times in a decision win; however, Garcia later returned an adverse drug-test result, leading to a 12-month ban and causing his victory over Haney to be overturned<\/a> to a No Contest.<\/p>\n

Garcia continued: \u201cI don\u2019t think [Benn] is at the level he thinks he\u2019s at, I\u2019ll tell you that. I don\u2019t think that Eubank had enough skills or felt good enough. I just think Conor is young, and I think he\u2019s hungry, and I think he fights that way, but I don’t think he\u2019s that good \u2013 if that makes sense. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis style is a brawler, but boxers will always beat brawlers. A good boxer will always beat a good brawler, for sure. I don\u2019t think he beats any of the top-level dudes at 147[lb], but if he believes it, we could all run it. <\/p>\n

\"Conor<\/p>\n

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Conor Benn (left) dropped Chris Eubank Jr twice in the final round of their rematch this month (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wants a big name, I would love to come to the UK and take all your fans. That would [make me] ecstatic. And guess what? The UK fans are the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Benn and Hearn sat ringside in Saudi Arabia, where Haney became a three-division world champion by claiming the WBO welterweight belt<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The unbeaten Haney, 27, dropped Brian Norman Jr en route to a decision win, but Benn and Hearn played down the \u201cDream\u201d\u2019s performance. <\/p>\n

Benn said Haney looked \u201cscared of his own shadow\u201d, while Garcia has now said of Hearn\u2019s comments: \u201cI think there was a little bit of saltiness, I could taste a little salt. But when he had Devin, he was the \u2018greatest fighter in the world\u2019, he would \u2018never be beaten\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not hating on it; you gotta do your job, right? I think that the real honest opinion of that fight [is] Devin Haney looked sharp, but he didn\u2019t have a killer instinct. This is the sharpest I\u2019ve seen him since the [Jorge] Linares fight [in 2021], but still, no killer instinct.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

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Eddie Hearn previously promoted Haney (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get a man hurt like that, and the next few rounds you do good, and then you just coast the whole fight. He\u2019s okay with just winning, which is perfectly fine, but you need to be a killer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haney\u2019s title win at welterweight followed his divisional debut in May, when he was criticised for a lacklustre performance in outpointing Jose Ramirez. At the same event, Garcia similarly debuted at welterweight and was dropped and outpointed by Rolly Romero.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Garcia has been linked with another title shot in his next outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-308011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}