{"id":895981,"date":"2026-09-14T23:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895981\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:38:12","slug":"garcia-reveals-post-fight-brawl-with-friend-after-benn-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895981\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia Reveals Post-Fight Brawl With Friend After Benn Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ryan Garcia retained his WBC Welterweight title this past Saturday night (Sept. 12, 2026) in Las Vegas, Nevada by making easy work of Conor Benn, dismantling him in the second round with a ferocious knockout (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\/471806\/highlights-ryan-garcia-destroys-conor-benn-retains-title-with-massive-second-round-tko-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see it again here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A few days removed from his impressive performance, Garcia revealed that he hurt his hand the following day, but it wasn\u2019t as a result of his vicious strikes on \u201cThe Destroyer.\u201d During a recent appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HappyPunch\/status\/2099573198471774401\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>, Garcia stated that he hurt his right hand (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\/471806\/highlights-ryan-garcia-destroys-conor-benn-retains-title-with-massive-second-round-tko-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the one that dropped Benn<\/a>) after he got into a bareknuckle brawl with one of his friends in the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI hurt my hand more-so fighting someone on Sunday night. The homie wanted that work, I still had energy so I said let\u2019s get it,\u201d said Ryan while showing off his bruised knuckles. \u201cWe just started brawling in the room. He wanted that work so I gave it to him, bareknuckle. He wanted the smoke, easy work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I\u2019ve gotten into some tussles with \u201cthe homies\u201d in my lifetime, but none of them are world champion boxers, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ryan did not delve in further details but did reveal that his friend is not a professional boxer, so making light work of him was no surprise. Then again, publicly stating that he beat up his friend in a hotel room is probably not the smartest of things to do to prevent any future legal matters. But if he is a true \u201chomie\u201d and if it was nothing more than some playful sparring, then Garcia probably has nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As far as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\/472254\/whats-next-for-ryan-garcia-jai-opetaia-after-big-knockout-wins-in-las-vegas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what could be next for Garcia<\/a> in a sanctioned professional fight, he is targeting a showdown against WBA Super Welterweight division kingpin, Teofimo Lopez, which would be another great matchup that would help \u201cKing Ry\u201d cement himself as the face of boxing should he prove victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To checkout the latest Zuffa boxing-related news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia retained his WBC Welterweight title this past Saturday night (Sept. 12, 2026) in Las Vegas, Nevada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,638,82,75400],"class_list":["post-895981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895981","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=895981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}