{"id":27196,"date":"2026-09-09T18:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:36:42","slug":"garcia-no-shows-benn-face-off-plays-video-games-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=27196","title":{"rendered":"Garcia No-Shows Benn Face Off, Plays Video Games Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fight week is already at full speed in Las Vegas, Nevada for the highly-anticipated WBC Welterweight title fight between division king, <strong>Ryan Garcia<\/strong>, and British slugger,<strong> Conor Benn<\/strong>, who will throw down this Saturday (Sep. 12, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena streaming live on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But while Benn is keeping up with his media obligations, Garcia seems to be taking a more lackadaisical approach to fight week so far. The two men were scheduled to take part in their first fight week staredown but \u201cKing Ry\u201d decided to leave \u201cThe Destroyer\u201d hanging high and dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWell guys, I apologize for Ryan doing what Ryan does and bottling it. We turn up, we\u2019re here, ready for the face-off,\u201d he said. \u201cHe needs to get his shit together because come Saturday, he\u2019s going to be in for a big, big shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cNice relaxing time as Conor wastes time showing up to a face off,\u201d write Garcia as he posted a picture of himself relaxing playing an NBA video game. \u201cBack to the sauna you go, sausage getting cooked every way,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While Garcia has shown to be somewhat of a loose cannon at times, it\u2019s the first time he doesn\u2019t show up to his fight-week obligations. But, it seems the WBC Welterweight champion of the world is looking to play mind games (again) in his first-ever title defense against a very formidable foe. But will it cost him come fight night?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><strong>To checkout the latest Zuffa boxing-related news and notes click here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/zuffa-boxing-news\/470634\/conor-benn-slams-video-game-playing-ryan-garcia-for-no-showing-face-off-get-your-sht-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight week is already at full speed in Las Vegas, Nevada for the highly-anticipated WBC Welterweight title fight between division king, Ryan Garcia, and British slugger, Conor Benn, who will throw down this Saturday (Sep. 12, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena streaming live on Paramount+. But while Benn is keeping up with his media obligations, Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4929,958,1574,1249,2578,6824,134],"class_list":["post-27196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis","tag-benn","tag-face","tag-games","tag-garcia","tag-noshows","tag-plays","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}