{"id":892412,"date":"2026-09-12T01:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892412\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:08:18","slug":"ryan-garcia-walks-out-with-rey-mysterio-for-final-faceoff-with-conor-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892412\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia walks out with Rey Mysterio for final faceoff with Conor Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn are finally ready to fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Saturday, Garcia and Benn lock horns for the WBC welterweight title in a highly anticipated grudge match in Las Vegas. The build-up to the fight has been marked by trash talk between the two, but at the ceremonial weigh-ins on Friday, the final faceoff between the two was surprisingly tame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Garcia walked out to the weigh-ins accompanied by pro-wrestling legend Rey Mysterio, who was carrying a Mexican flag. After completing his ceremonial weigh-in, Garcia did his faceoff with Benn, who stood still as a statue while Garcia bounced up and down, draped in the American flag. Neither man came particularly close to one another, and even their final words before the fight did not carry the same fire as their pre-fight trash talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cTomorrow night is going to be a continuation of the reign that I have right now,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI\u2019m a world champion, and it\u2019s going to stay that way tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Benn, meanwhile, made light of the pre-fight rumors that he had a difficult weight cut for the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cListen, we\u2019ll see Saturday night, won\u2019t we?\u201d Benn said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see tomorrow night how good I really feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The co-main event faceoff between Jai Opetaia and Noel Mikaelian was equally as tame, with both men keeping their staredown casual and respectful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Garcia vs. Benn goes down Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with the broadcast starting at 5 p.m. ET on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn are finally ready to fight. On Saturday, Garcia and Benn lock horns for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82,3194],"class_list":["post-892412","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\/892412","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=892412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}