{"id":693550,"date":"2026-07-15T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:52:10","slug":"ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-briton-to-face-wbc-welterweight-champion-on-12-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693550\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn: Briton to face WBC welterweight champion on 12 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 27-year-old has won 25 of his 28 professional fights, losing two with one no-contest, and was suspended from boxing<\/a> for a year between 2024 and 2025 after failing a drugs test.<\/p>\n

Benn, who has lost just once in 26 fights, was also sidelined for a year<\/a> amid a doping scandal.<\/p>\n

In May, Garcia appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show to announce he would be facing Benn<\/a>, but Oscar de la Hoya, who promotes the American, said the following month that no talks had taken place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garcia and Benn were on stage<\/a> last week when fighters weighed in before UFC 329.<\/p>\n

Benn’s last fight at welterweight was more than two years ago when he beat Peter Dobson by decision in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

He moved up two divisions in 2025 for two fights against Chris Eubank Jr at middleweight, before beating Regis Prograis in April at a catchweight – 3lb above the welterweight limit.<\/p>\n

Benn left promoters Matchroom to sign a one-bout deal with Zuffa Boxing<\/a> in February and has since penned a multi-fight deal with them. <\/p>\n

In April, Benn told BBC Sport that Garcia was “good for boxing”<\/a> but believes he is a “liability”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 27-year-old has won 25 of his 28 professional fights, losing two with one no-contest, and was suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693550","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\/693550","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=693550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}