The Sun Sport,<\/a> WBO middleweight world champion Denzel Bentley recalled his spars with Benn before his two fights with Chris Eubank Jr. and admitted that, whilst his countryman has sufficient power, he is concerned as to whether Benn will retain it down at 147lbs.<\/p>\n\u201cHe punches hard enough. I\u2019m not going to lie, he punches hard enough. It wasn\u2019t anything like, \u2018Oh my days!\u2019, but he puts a lot into it and anyone that is putting a lot into their shots and it isn\u2019t hard enough is in trouble.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was when he wasn\u2019t even weighing 160lbs, he was heavier, fresher, a lot more going in, training hard, putting in the work and full of fuel. When he gets to 147lbs, that could go.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a lot of weight, man, because he was coming down to 160lbs at the time and now he is coming down from whatever he was at 160lbs, he is coming down from that to 147lbs and he hasn\u2019t been there for four years!<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have bothered to come back down to 147lbs. I would have stayed at 154lbs and try get some fights there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia-Benn takes place on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas<\/a>, as Garcia \u2013 who himself hasn\u2019t registered a stoppage win since 2023 \u2013 seeks to make his first defence of the coveted WBC crown and tee up a unification showdown with WBA champion Teofimo Lopez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn is hoping to score a first knockout win since his last welterweight appearance in April 2022…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767030","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\/767030","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=767030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}