Ryan Garcia was a no-show for his first face-off with Conor Benn on Tuesday before their world title fight this weekend in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
The American was scheduled to attend a photo opportunity, but skipped it to leave Benn appearing alone.<\/p>\n
Benn, 29, did have the company of his father, boxing legend Nigel Benn, who pretended to face off with his son.<\/p>\n
After joking around with his dad, Benn said Garcia “didn’t turn up”.<\/p>\n
“I apologise for Ryan doing what Ryan does and bottling it. We turn up, we’re here, ready for the face-off,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Come Saturday, he’s in for a war.”<\/p>\n
Garcia defends his WBC welterweight title at the T-Mobile Arena in Benn’s first world championship bout.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old is the favourite for the contest and after failing to attend the first face-off of fight week, Garcia mocked Benn on Instagram.<\/p>\n
“Nice relaxing time as Conor wastes time showing up to a face-off,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Back to the sauna you go, sausage getting cooked every way.”<\/p>\n
They are due to meet twice before fight night with the news conference on Thursday and the weigh-in on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia was a no-show for his first face-off with Conor Benn on Tuesday before their world title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-619173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}