{"id":699027,"date":"2026-07-18T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:54:08","slug":"adrien-broner-says-ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-will-end-in-a-nasty-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699027\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner says Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn will end in a ‘nasty knockout’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world champion Adrien Broner has delivered a knockout prediction for Ryan Garcia<\/a> vs Conor Benn<\/a>, believing the 147lb limit could prove a tremendous obstacle for one half of the main event.<\/p>\n

Their welterweight showdown was announced earlier this week<\/a>, confirming September 12 and Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena as the respective date and destination.<\/p>\n

Even before the arrival of an official announcement, though, many had identified Garcia as a sizable favourite heading into his maiden WBC world title defence.<\/p>\n

This was partly due to his title-winning performance against Mario Barrios<\/a>, who he dethroned with a unanimous decision victory in February.<\/p>\n

Conversely, there is scant evidence to suggest that Benn is even capable of competing at world level, given his signature wins have all come against faded fighters.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting, too, that the 29-year-old has not fought at 147lbs since his second-round finish over Chris van Heerden in 2022.<\/p>\n

Because of this, there are serious doubts over whether Benn will even make weight against Garcia, let alone have what it takes to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n

And these doubts, it seems, are being considered by former boxing star Broner, who shared his thoughts during a livestream posted by Deen The Great.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIs [Benn] gonna make [147lbs]? I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll make it. I honestly see it being like a nasty knockout.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the livestream, Broner was joined by a confident Garcia, who agreed that his opponent is unlikely to make championship weight.<\/p>\n

Such doubts can partly be explained by Benn\u2019s last outing, against Regis Prograis, who he unanimously outpointed at a catchweight of 150lbs in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world champion Adrien Broner has delivered a knockout prediction for Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn, believing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699027","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\/699027","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=699027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}