# Garcia Threatened to Slap Benn in Vegas

> Media day in Las Vegas, a no-show faceoff, and he does not care if the WBC fight gets cancelled.

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Beat: Celebrities
Published: September 10, 2026
Source title: Ryan Garcia Conor Benn fight — Mirror
Source URL: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ryan-garcia-conor-benn-fight-37646580
Tags: ryan-garcia, conor-benn, vegas, boxing

## Article

Ryan Garcia threatened to slap Conor Benn at Las Vegas fight-week media day, and championship week immediately started looking like a bar argument with better lighting. The fighter was in town to sell a WBC welterweight title and chose a slap as his opening offer. He said he does not care if the WBC welterweight title fight gets cancelled, which is a crazy thing to announce when the whole paycheck is that date. Garcia no-showed Tuesday's scheduled faceoff and explained it with I wasn't there because I didn't want to be. Title-fight week polish died right there in one bored sentence. The sport still tries to sell this as a championship product while Garcia treats media day like a mood he can walk out of. Promoters want the Vegas lights and the belt photos, and the fighter keeps giving them a slap threat instead of a locked-in main event. What the week actually produced was the slap.

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