{"id":746315,"date":"2026-08-22T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746315\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:04:08","slug":"shawn-porter-delivers-verdict-on-ryan-garcia-vs-conor-benn-after-sparring-the-brit-itll-affect-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746315\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter delivers verdict on Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn after sparring the Brit: &#8220;It&#8217;ll affect him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having previously shared rounds of sparring with Conor Benn, former world champion Shawn Porter has considered whether \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 can perform to a high standard at 147lbs against Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has not competed at welterweight since 2022, before two positive doping tests led to the cancellation of his encounter with Chris Eubank Jr.<\/p>\n<p>His middleweight rivalry with Eubank was then revisited last year, when Benn suffered a unanimous decision defeat before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12040\/13470942\/conor-benn-knocks-chris-eubank-jr-down-twice-as-he-takes-rematch-revenge-at-tottenham-hotspur-stadium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">winning their rematch by the same verdict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now coming off another wide points victory, this time against a faded Regis Prograis last April, the Brit is attempting to make championship weight for his clash with Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old American will make a first defence of his world title at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena on September 12, having claimed the belt by <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/mario-barrios-vs-ryan-garcia-live\/#:~:text=Official%20scorecards%20read%20119%2D108,his%20father%20and%20trainer%2C%20Henry.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dethroning Mario Barrios with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p>This happened to be his second outing at 147lbs, with the first resulting in a unanimous decision defeat to Rolando Romero in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Benn, on the other hand, has fought as high as 160lbs since his last welterweight outing, with Porter \u2013 who sparred Benn ahead of the first Eubank fight \u2013 telling <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NasF8mwPGl4?si=BHyFfDAz2ufI-DNW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">About Boxing<\/a> that he feels the world title challenger will encounter a formidable challenge before he even steps through the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the weight cut\u2019s gonna affect him. He hasn\u2019t been at 147lbs in [four years]. The manipulation it takes to continue to pull that weight down \u2013 once you stop that manipulation, and try to reinforce it, it doesn\u2019t always spark the same [result].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we saw Claressa [Shields] get the weight off \u2013 she came back [to 160lbs]; she looked great [against Kaye Scott]. [But], for Conor Benn, I think he has to have extraordinary discipline with bringing his weight back down to 147lbs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benn has made it clear that this will be his last welterweight assignment, indicating that he is already experiencing a torrid battle with the scales and saying that he could end up competing as high as 168lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having previously shared rounds of sparring with Conor Benn, former world champion Shawn Porter has considered whether \u2018The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746315","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\/746315","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=746315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}