{"id":334419,"date":"2025-12-25T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334419\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:53:08","slug":"conor-benn-says-concrete-plans-in-place-to-fight-ryan-garcia-on-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334419\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn says ‘concrete plans’ in place to fight Ryan Garcia on Cinco de Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> says there are concrete plans in place to match him with Ryan Garcia<\/a> on Cinco de Mayo in 2026.
Benn fought in November against Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>. in a rematch and beat him by unanimous decision<\/a> on The Ring’s ‘Unfinished Business’ card at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
After spending 2025 campaigning at middleweight, where he’s ranked No. 4 by The Ring<\/a>, Benn is ready to move back down to welterweight to challenge for the WBC title.
Benn was recently ranked No. 1 by the sanctioning body and appears likely to face the winner of Mario Barrios-Garcia, which is set to take place on February 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘The Destroyer’ assumes Garcia will beat Barrios to win the title, setting up a spring showdown.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be waiting for the WBC world title next,” Benn told The Ring. “For me, that’s always been a dream, it’s been my plan, it’s been my goal, and to win a WBC world title means everything to me.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think many nights will top my last fight in terms of victory, but I believe winning the WBC world title will, and I thank the WBC for giving me this opportunity to get that world title.<\/p>\n

“I know that if Ryan Garcia comes through [against Barrios], from what I’m hearing, there are plans next, concrete plans. I think everybody’s banking on him winning.<\/p>\n

“It’s an away day for the fans, shall we say. Vegas, T-Mobile Arena, Cinco de Mayo, sounds good to me, doesn’t it?”<\/p>\n

Should the plan come to fruition, it would mark the second big event taking place on Cinco de Mayo weekend, as David Benavidez is set to challenge Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez<\/a> for his WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles.<\/p>\n

As a result of that schedule clash, it’s also possible Garcia-Benn could move to later in the year.<\/p>\n

Barrios-Garcia<\/a> has yet to be confirmed but The Ring reported at the beginning of November a deal was close to being completed, and now an announcement is imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn says there are concrete plans in place to match him with Ryan Garcia on Cinco de…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-334419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}