{"id":796562,"date":"2026-10-09T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796562\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:14:08","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-sums-up-conor-benns-ability-after-watching-ryan-garcia-ko-him-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796562\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya sums up Conor Benn’s ability after watching Ryan Garcia KO him in 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya has shared his verdict on Conor Benn<\/a> following his knockout defeat to Ryan Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Brit came up short in his first world title shot last month as he was comfortably dispatched of by WBC welterweight champion Garcia inside two rounds<\/a> at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

De La Hoya has promoted Garcia throughout his career so is well aware of his talents, and he has explained exactly how he knew it was going to be an easy night\u2019s work for \u2018King Ry.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, De La Hoya revealed that even though he likes Benn, he doesn\u2019t believe \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 is up to the standard of the talent in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan knocked out Conor Benn the way I expected. People were saying it\u2019s a huge fight. It turned out the way I envisaged it. Benn is a great fighter don\u2019t get me wrong, he\u2019s a good fighter in the UK but there\u2019s a difference when you come fight in the US, it\u2019s a whole different level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Conor, I think he\u2019s one of the realest fighters out there, I love the way he talks but the Zuffa guys and TKO they don\u2019t know what they were doing. I knew Conor Benn was going to get knocked out in two rounds, three rounds maximum, and that\u2019s exactly what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn is now set to move back up in weight for his next contest, where he has been linked to a trilogy showdown with former rival Chris Eubank Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya has shared his verdict on Conor Benn following his knockout defeat to Ryan Garcia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796562","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\/796562","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=796562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}