Ryan Garcia v Conor Benn: WBC welterweight championship – live updates

Tale of the tape

Here’s how Garcia and Benn measure up ahead of tonight’s main event. Garcia is the younger man by a year and brings the heavier hands on paper, with 20 knockouts in 25 victories compared with Benn’s 14 in 25. Both men came in comfortably below the welterweight limit on Friday: Benn weighed 146lb, his lightest since June 2019, while Garcia tipped the scales at 145.5lb, his lightest since facing Devin Haney in April 2024. Garcia enters with a 25-2 record and the WBC title, while Benn is 25-1 and fighting at 147lb for the first time in more than four years.