{"id":603225,"date":"2026-05-25T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603225\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:10:10","slug":"canelo-delivers-honest-verdict-on-ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-hes-very-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603225\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo delivers honest verdict on Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn: “He’s very brave”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has shared his thoughts on the potential upcoming battle between Ryan Garcia<\/a> and Conor Benn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After months of speculation, Garcia appeared to confirm last week that he will make the first defence of his WBC welterweight title against Benn in Las Vegas in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018King Ry\u2019 won the belt back in February with a dominant win over Mario Barrios<\/a>, dropping his rival in the opening round before going on to claim the one-sided unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

He now looks set to turn his attention to Benn, who would be challenging for world honours for the first time, after two notable fights against long-term rival Chris Eubank Jr in 2025.<\/p>\n

Those contests were up at middleweight, and while \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 did secure a unanimous decision win over Regis Prograis in a 150lb catchweight bout in April, it has been over four years since Benn last competed in the welterweight division.<\/p>\n

Ahead that potential fight, multi-weight world champion Canelo has weighed in with his take, and speaking to Boxing News during a media scrum, he praised the abilities of both men.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good fight. Conor Benn is a good fighter, he throws a lot of punches. He\u2019s very brave. Ryan Garcia is a great fighter too, it\u2019s a good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canelo knows Garcia extremely well, with the two men having previously been gym-mates before a public fallout, but they have since patched things up and ended their feud.<\/p>\n

One man who Canelo still appears to have an ongoing feud with is David Benavidez, and the 35-year-old has responded to the latest callout from \u2018The Mexican Monster.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has shared his thoughts on the potential upcoming battle between Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603225","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\/603225","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=603225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}