{"id":735024,"date":"2026-08-11T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:22:09","slug":"frank-warren-picks-a-winner-in-conor-benn-vs-ryan-garcia-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735024\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Warren picks a winner in Conor Benn vs Ryan Garcia world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next month, Conor Benn will return to the welterweight division in an immediate challenge for Ryan Garcia\u2019s WBC world title<\/a> in one of the highest profile bouts of 2026. Now, Frank Warren has offered his thoughts on the fight.<\/p>\n

Back in April 2022, in his most recent welterweight outing, Benn knocked out Chris van Heerden and looked to be on the verge of a challenge for world honours, before opting to take on Chris Eubank Jr instead.<\/p>\n

However, a failed drugs test<\/a> led to the cancellation of that contest and derailed Benn\u2019s career, which was then revived when he twice fought Eubank as a middleweight in 2025, suffering a first career defeat and then avenging it.<\/p>\n

This year, Benn has made headlines once again as he announced plans to return to welterweight and then ditched career-long promoter, Eddie Hearn, in favour of a switch to Zuffa Boxing, where he made his first outing in a 150lb catchweight clash with Regis Prograis in April.<\/p>\n

In September, Benn has the chance to emerge as a global superstar by bringing Garcia\u2019s reign to an early end, but Warren told Playbook Boxing<\/a> that he makes the Briton a \u2018massive underdog\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor, at this moment in time, for me he is a big underdog in that fight. I am sure he will do his best and fight his best, but you have got to make Garcia a massive favourite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cConor has not boxed at a high level yet. He boxed Chris Eubank Jnr, 36 years old and he [Eubank] has never done it, at all, at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of the outcome of his September 12 showdown with Garcia, Benn has declared that the scrap will be his last at 147lbs<\/a>, planning to campaign at either super-welterweight or middleweight in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next month, Conor Benn will return to the welterweight division in an immediate challenge for Ryan Garcia\u2019s WBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735024","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\/735024","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=735024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}