{"id":555101,"date":"2026-04-28T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:22:10","slug":"tim-bradley-makes-emphatic-ko-prediction-for-conor-benn-vs-ryan-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555101\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley makes emphatic KO prediction for Conor Benn vs Ryan Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer Tim Bradley believes a welterweight clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/conor-benn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Benn<\/a> and WBC world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> ends in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are in talks to collide later this year, while Garcia has also mentioned the possibility of rematching WBA world champion Rolando Romero.<\/p>\n<p>Their first encounter, in May 2025, saw Romero claim a unanimous decision victory after flooring his man in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, though, Garcia has secured the WBC title at 147lbs after dethroning Mario Barrios, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47976139\/mario-barrios-ryan-garcia-live-updates-results-round-round-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who he dropped and unanimously outpointed in February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This represents the 27-year-old\u2019s first victory since 2023, when he scored an eighth-round stoppage over Oscar Duarte before entering his controversial showdown with Devin Haney.<\/p>\n<p>Despite edging a majority decision over Haney, this result in April 2024 was ruled a no-contest after \u2018King Ry\u2019 tested positive for banned substance ostarine.<\/p>\n<p>Benn, too, failed a drugs test in 2022 ahead of his cancelled contest against Chris Eubank Jr, who he eventually outpointed in their middleweight rematch last November.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/chris-eubank-jr-beats-conor-benn-by-unanimous-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">points defeat to Eubank in April 2025<\/a>, though Benn remained in the win column earlier this month as he outpointed Regis Prograis, who subsequently announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>But despite fighting at a catchweight of 150lbs in his last outing, the 29-year-old is now looking to leverage his No.1 WBC ranking and lock horns with Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rtvInSGXpAQ?si=B63ZfeKREy_ubwkI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESNEWS<\/a>, former two-weight world champion Bradley has given Benn little more than a prayer against Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan knocks him out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the WBC\u2019s leading welterweight contender, Benn is expected to be ordered for his shot against Garcia in the not too distant future, even if their ongoing negotiations collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Tim Bradley believes a welterweight clash between Conor Benn and WBC world champion Ryan Garcia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-555101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555101","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=555101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}