{"id":853882,"date":"2026-08-11T07:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:02:09","slug":"conor-benn-next-fight-ryan-garcia-underdog-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853882\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn Next Fight: Ryan Garcia Underdog Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conor Benn says being written off brings out his best \u2014 but the record barely backs him up as he heads into his September 12 showdown with Ryan Garcia at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. \u201cI like being the underdog,\u201d Benn told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\/2026\/08\/conor-benn-embraces-underdog-role-against-ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports (via Boxing News 24)<\/a>. \u201cI think I perform at my best. Every single one of my fights has led me to this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why Conor Benn Is The Underdog Against Ryan Garcia<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The claim is a tough one to stand up. Benn has been the betting underdog in only two completed fights, both against Chris Eubank Jr \u2014 he lost the first by unanimous decision in April 2025 before edging the rematch seven months later. Eubank was in his mid-30s for both, with weight conditions applied to the naturally bigger man in the return, and he was never the one-punch counterpuncher Garcia is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garcia brings a lightning-fast left hook that has produced some of his biggest knockdowns, and Benn\u2019s aggressive, come-forward style could walk him straight into it. This is not another meeting with an ageing veteran; it is a dangerous puncher in Benn\u2019s own division armed with the exact weapon to punish the risks he takes. That makes Las Vegas a leap into the unknown \u2014 a live puncher his own size, a new crowd, and none of the built-in edges he carried into the Eubank nights. September 12 will test the theory. Follow the full build-up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxing-social.com\/tag\/conor-benn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Benn\u2019s road to Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn says being written off brings out his best \u2014 but the record barely backs him up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,33854,25826,2674,82,10092],"class_list":["post-853882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-eubank-jr","tag-conor-benn","tag-ryan-garcia","tag-sports","tag-welterweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853882","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=853882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}