{"id":538104,"date":"2026-04-18T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:07:08","slug":"eddie-hearn-makes-honest-conor-benn-vs-ryan-garcia-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538104\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn makes honest Conor Benn vs Ryan Garcia prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

An announcement for Conor Benn<\/a>\u2019s maiden world title shot against reigning WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia<\/a> seems to be around the corner, and former promoter Eddie Hearn has predicted how Benn will fare in that fight.<\/p>\n

Benn has not fought at welterweight since knocking out Chris van Heerden in April 2022, but has been installed as the WBC\u2019s mandatory challenger, ahead of a return to what he believes to be his natural weight division.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 was tasked with Regis Prograis in a 150lb catchweight affair, that being the first fight of his career not promoted by Hearn, and underwhelmed as he was made to work for a decision win against the 37-year-old<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After watching that fight, Hearn told Fight Hub TV<\/a> that he believes Benn no longer possesses the punch power to hurt Garcia as a welterweight, siding with \u2018King Ry\u2019 in that potential scrap.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, before Saturday, if I was his promoter, I would be saying that I think he [Benn] wins the fight, that I think that he can hurt him [Garcia] but that I think that it is a very tough fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I\u2019m not his promoter, I still think that can hurt him but I don\u2019t know if he can at 147lbs. I was watching that [Prograis] fight thinking, \u2018you don\u2019t look like you have any power or zip in your punches. Whereas, up at 154lbs at 160lbs, you looked strong\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, it might have just been a poor performance, who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia-Benn is expected to be officially announced in the coming weeks, with a fight date and location already revealed by the Californian superstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An announcement for Conor Benn\u2019s maiden world title shot against reigning WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia seems to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-538104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538104","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=538104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}