{"id":737974,"date":"2026-08-14T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737974\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:24:09","slug":"david-price-sums-up-conor-benns-chances-of-beating-ryan-garcia-to-become-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737974\/","title":{"rendered":"David Price sums up Conor Benn’s chances of beating Ryan Garcia to become world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former British champion and Olympic bronze medallist David Price has assessed whether his countryman, Conor Benn<\/a>, possesses the necessary hand speed to defeat Ryan Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two welterweights will square off at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena on September 12, with Garcia making a first defence of his WBC world title.<\/p>\n

It was arguably a career-best performance that saw him dethrone Mario Barrios<\/a> in February, scoring a first-round knockdown before winning a wide unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

But despite coming off this dominant display, Garcia was far less impressive when he returned from a year-long doping ban and lost on points to Rolando Romero<\/a> in May 2025.<\/p>\n

Still, many would argue that the 28-year-old has shown signs of world-class quality, while Benn remains glaringly unproven at the top level.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old has also not fought at 147lbs since 2022, with his last two outings resulting in unanimous decision victories over faded versions of Chris Eubank Jr and Regis Prograis.<\/p>\n

Against Eubank, in particular, Benn\u2019s speed seemed a key factor in their two middleweight encounters last year, despite him suffering a points defeat the first time around.<\/p>\n

As he approaches this welterweight contest against Garcia, though, former heavyweight contender Price has told The Smith Brothers<\/a> that he sees Benn contending with an unfamiliar disadvantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I [favour Garcia]. Conor Benn\u2019s got great hand speed, but I think [Garcia\u2019s] hand speed could make the difference in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Garcia, Benn tested positive for a banned substance \u2013 clomifene \u2013 and was eventually removed from his cancelled 2022 encounter with Eubank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British champion and Olympic bronze medallist David Price has assessed whether his countryman, Conor Benn, possesses the…\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-737974","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\/737974","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=737974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737974\/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=737974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}