{"id":710655,"date":"2026-07-25T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710655\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:04:08","slug":"tony-bellew-picks-a-winner-in-ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-that-version-is-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710655\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew picks a winner in Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn: “That version is not good enough”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In September, Ryan Garcia<\/a> and Conor Benn<\/a> collide in one of the biggest fights of the year, and former WBC cruiserweight world champion Tony Bellew<\/a> has offered his thoughts on the fight.<\/p>\n

Benn has not boxed at welterweight since his failed drugs test in October 2022 and he is also yet to register a stoppage win in the five fights above 147lbs that have followed. As a result, he has been keen to return to his natural division, hoping he can rediscover his knockout power.<\/p>\n

After much speculation, it has finally been announced that Garcia and Benn will meet<\/a>, as \u2018King Ry\u2019 seeks a first defence of the WBC welterweight title, since getting his hands on the belt with a win over Mario Barrios<\/a> back in February.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the \u2018Fight Your Corner\u2019 Podcast<\/a>, Bellew looked ahead to the fight and admitted that the outcome could depend on how focused Garcia is and which version of the champion turns up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Garcia, it\u2019s the left-hook that is the real power shot with him. My only issue with this fight is that you don\u2019t know which Ryan Garcia is going to turn up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Ryan that got in with Rolly Romero turns up, that is going to lose, that is not going to be enough. I rate Rolly, as well, Rolly is a good fighter but is Ryan interested? Is he bothered?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMentally, I think that Ryan is all over the place and mentally, I think that Conor Benn is so strong. To get through what he went through for all them years, mentally, he is so, so strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite those comments, Bellew maintained that, in his eyes, Garcia remains \u2018an overwhelming favourite\u2019 due to his speed and trademark left-hook.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarcia is the favourite and he is the overwhelming favourite because of the qualities and the fundamentals that he has; lightning speed and a vicious left-hook.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia-Benn takes place on Saturday, September 12, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September, Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn collide in one of the biggest fights of the year, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710655","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\/710655","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=710655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}