{"id":702487,"date":"2026-07-21T00:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:28:17","slug":"terence-crawford-explains-why-conor-benn-will-cause-an-upset-and-beat-ryan-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702487\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford explains why Conor Benn will cause an upset and beat Ryan Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This September, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/conor-benn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Benn<\/a> will collide atop a blockbuster bill in Las Vegas, with the WBC welterweight world title on the line. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a>, who ruled as the undisputed champion of the division in 2023, has explained why he believes Benn will pull off the upset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/48002524\/ryan-garcia-wrests-mario-barrios-wbc-title-one-sided-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Garcia dethroned Mario Barrios<\/a> in an impressive performance back in February, capturing world honours at the third time of asking, after failing in scheduled title bids against Devin Haney and Rolando Romero in the two fights prior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Benn has not fought at welterweight since April 2022, with a below-par performance in a 150lb catchweight clash with Regis Prograis earlier this year leading to concerns as to whether he will be able to perform at 147lbs.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite that display, Crawford told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@uncrowned\/video\/7657698210869169421?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uncrowned Combat<\/a> that he is picking Benn to come out on top, believing that \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 has both the \u2018size\u2019 and the \u2018power\u2019 to put an early end to Garcia\u2019s welterweight reign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that is a good fight. I think, of course, Ryan has got the experience, but I think that Conor has got the size and the power. I think that it\u2019s going to be an interesting fight moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go with Conor, I think that he is going to upset him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garcia-Benn will take place on Saturday, September 12, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with undefeated cruiserweight poster boy, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/opetaia-to-fight-on-high-profile-card\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jai Opetaia, anticipated to take part in the co-main event of the evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This September, Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn will collide atop a blockbuster bill in Las Vegas, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702487","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\/702487","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=702487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}