{"id":598177,"date":"2026-05-22T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598177\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:14:07","slug":"rolly-romero-sees-only-one-winner-in-ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-dislocate-his-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598177\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolly Romero sees only one winner in Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn: “Dislocate his jaw”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolando Romero<\/a> has described one half of the potential showdown between Ryan Garcia<\/a> and Conor Benn<\/a> as \u201cfree meat\u201d, believing that he would suffer a dislocated jaw.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rolly\u2019 defeated Garcia by scoring a sizable upset<\/a> in May 2025, when a second-round knockdown contributed to his convincing unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, \u2018King Ry\u2019 was handed a year-long ban after testing positive for ostarine, a banned substance, following his encounter with Devin Haney in April 2024.<\/p>\n

Yet despite his majority decision victory also being overturned to a no-contest, Garcia was presented with a world opportunity last February.<\/p>\n

This resulted in a unanimous decision victory for the 27-year-old, who scored a first-round knockdown en route to dethroning Mario Barrios for the WBC strap.<\/p>\n

Since then, \u2018King Ry\u2019 has been heavily linked with a welterweight title defence against Benn, who comes off a points victory over Regis Prograis last month.<\/p>\n

Despite defeating the since-retired Prograis at a catchweight of 150lbs, and having not fought at 147lbs since 2022, \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 is the WBC\u2019s leading welterweight contender.<\/p>\n

According to a Pro Boxing Fans<\/a> interview with WBA welterweight champion Romero, though, Benn should not be mentioned in the same conversation as Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I believe Ryan Garcia truly wants to fight Conor Benn, and dislocate his jaw, because Conor Benn is the easiest [opponent] in boxing? Yes. Anyone would take the free meat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn has previously failed two doping tests, like Garcia, but is nonetheless set to face the WBC champion on September 12.<\/p>\n

\u2018King Ry\u2019 revealed this information on The Jimmy Fallon Show earlier this week<\/a>, telling the talk show host that their showdown will take place in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolando Romero has described one half of the potential showdown between Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn as \u201cfree…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598177","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\/598177","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=598177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}