{"id":47072,"date":"2026-09-13T04:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/garcia-vs-benn-wbc-welterweight-title-fight-predictions-from-fighters-and-pundits\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:43:18","slug":"garcia-vs-benn-wbc-welterweight-title-fight-predictions-from-fighters-and-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/garcia-vs-benn-wbc-welterweight-title-fight-predictions-from-fighters-and-pundits\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia vs Benn: WBC welterweight title fight predictions from fighters and pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Conor Benn returns to welterweight for the first time since April 2022 to challenge WBC champion Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old Briton is bidding for the crowning moment of his 10-year professional career at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benn has won 25 of his 26 fights as a professional and would emulate his father, Nigel, by claiming a WBC title with another victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garcia, 28, is making the first defence of his belt after beating Mario Barrios by decision in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American has picked up 25 victories in his 28-fight career, earning 20 of those wins by knockout, while losing two, with one no-contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Live text commentary will begin on Sunday, 13 September at 03:00 BST on the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport spoke to figures from the boxing world to get their predictions for the bout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cje8y84wd1no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor Benn returns to welterweight for the first time since April 2022 to challenge WBC champion Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas. The 29-year-old Briton is bidding for the crowning moment of his 10-year professional career at T-Mobile Arena. Benn has won 25 of his 26 fights as a professional and would emulate his father, Nigel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47074,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47072\/revisions\/47074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}