{"id":621175,"date":"2026-09-11T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621175\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:28:10","slug":"garcia-vs-benn-champion-taunts-briton-with-an-egg-during-a-theatrical-news-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621175\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia vs Benn: Champion taunts Briton with an egg during a theatrical news conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garcia is one of boxing’s biggest social media stars, with more than 13 million Instagram followers. <\/p>\n

He recently appeared on WWE’s Monday Night Raw and it did not take long for the news conference to take on a similarly theatrical feel.<\/p>\n

Minutes after taking his seat, Garcia reached into a bag, pulled out the egg, calmly peeled it and ate it whole.<\/p>\n

“He has a lot of familiarity with eggs so I thought I’d eat some,” Garcia said, as his opponent’s father – Nigel Benn – shook his head.<\/p>\n

It was a reference to Benn’s two positive tests for clomifene<\/a> in 2022 and the WBC’s subsequent ruling that elevated consumption of eggs could provide a reasonable explanation.<\/p>\n

Adding to the bizarre atmosphere, Garcia said his egg was a bit dry and would benefit from some honey.<\/p>\n

Garcia has also served a doping suspension<\/a> after testing positive for ostarine following his 2024 fight with Devin Haney. Both fighters have denied knowingly taking banned substances.<\/p>\n

Before the face-off, security confiscated an egg Garcia had tucked into his pocket, potentially preventing a repeat of last year’s incident when Chris Eubank Jr slapped Benn across the face with one.<\/p>\n

Benn and Garcia had to be separated at their launch event in New York in July, but there was no repeat this time. As Garcia continued talking, Benn put a finger to his lips, smiled and eventually turned away and left the stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garcia is one of boxing’s biggest social media stars, with more than 13 million Instagram followers. He recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-621175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621175","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=621175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}