nearly coming to blows at their first press conference<\/a>. But despite the intensity, Benn says this rivalry is nothing compared to his feud with Chris Eubank Jr.<\/p>\n\u201cA lot less personal,\u201d Benn told MMA Fighting when asked about his feelings on the fight. \u201cA lot less spite involved. I think Ryan is what Ryan is. With Eubank, it was a lot more personal. There was family feud. There was generational family feud. It was the bragging rights of the family name. So, there was a lot more on the line. Whereas this one\u2019s more \u2014 I don\u2019t want to lie. I don\u2019t want to hurt the kid. It\u2019s a different feeling. I don\u2019t want to hurt him. I don\u2019t want to put him in the hospital. I want to have a good fight and beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n
But just because he doesn\u2019t want to hurt Garcia, that doesn\u2019t mean he likes him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to remember, he wasn\u2019t calling me out before the Eubank fights,\u201d Benn said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t calling me out after the Eubank fights. As soon as the Regis [Prograise] fight was done, \u2018Cool, let me call him out. Let\u2019s have the fight now.\u2019 It just goes to show who he is at heart. He ain\u2019t taking this fight for legacy. He ain\u2019t taking this fight for anything other than trying to pick an easy fight in terms of \u2014 just pick an easy fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe WBC made me mandatory for this fight. I\u2019d like to see him go up to middleweight.\u201d<\/p>\n
That animosity certainly came to the forefront for their first faceoff as the two boxers had to be separated by Dana White. And Benn says if things had gotten physical, he was ready for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, I wanted to punch his head in, for sure,\u201d Benn said about the faceoff. \u201cI wanted to punch his head in. I would have had it there and then with him. I\u2019m not worried about nothing with Ryan. I ain\u2019t scared about nothing. What\u2019s there to be scared about? He\u2019s a spoiled brat and he carries on like a little child, throwing his toys out the pram, having social media tantrums. You think I\u2019m worried about him? I\u2019ve just gone up to middleweight and had Fight of the Year. You think I\u2019m worried about Ryan, a lightweight? Not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn doesn\u2019t have the same beef with Ryan Garcia he had with Chris Eubank Jr., but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82,3194],"class_list":["post-813918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813918","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=813918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}