{"id":592822,"date":"2026-05-19T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:07:11","slug":"conor-benn-ryan-garcia-announces-wbc-welterweight-title-bout-against-briton-for-september-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592822\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn: Ryan Garcia announces WBC welterweight title bout against Briton for September"},"content":{"rendered":"

WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia says he will face Britain’s Conor Benn in Las Vegas in September.<\/p>\n

Garcia, 27, won his first major belt in February when he beat Mario Barrios<\/a> by unanimous decision, after two failed title bids.<\/p>\n

Benn, 29, has never competed for a world title and is looking to follow in the footsteps of his father Nigel, who was a two-weight world champion.<\/p>\n

“He’s from across the pond – his name is Conor Benn. He’s been talking a lot, he’s talking crazy,” Garcia said on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.<\/p>\n

“He actually confronted me at an awards show two years ago. My wife was there and he pressed me, grabbed me, so it’s a little personal. <\/p>\n

“We’ll be ready to go. I’m going to put a whooping on this man.”<\/p>\n

Benn, 29, has not fought at welterweight since February 2024 after moving up two divisions in 2025 to face Chris Eubank Jr at middleweight, before beating Regis Prograis<\/a> in April at a catchweight – 3lb above the welterweight limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia says he will face Britain’s Conor Benn in Las Vegas in September. Garcia,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592822","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\/592822","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=592822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}