They came. They weighed. They postured.
But there were no real fireworks at the final press conference or the weigh-in immediately leading up to Saturday night's show at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, where Ryan Garcia takes on Conor Benn in his first WBC welterweight title defense.
Nevertheless, they'll get together atop a four-bout main card to be stream lived by Paramount+ beginning at 8 p.m. ET. All eight fighters made weight on Friday.
Main Card
B/R will provide live updates when the ring walks begin.
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Ryan Garcia called in a high-profile pal for Friday's weigh-in machinations.
Wrestling superstar Rey Mysterio accompanied "King Ry" to the stage that featured the ceremonial scale on Friday and mugged for pictures with him afterward.
OK, let's face it. We all want this to happen, right?
Oscar De La Hoya sat down with former 168-pound champ Carl Froch to discuss what might happen if Dana White (a long-time verbal nemesis) decided to step up to the Golden Boy at some point this weekend.
De La Hoya claimed a hands-only confrontation would be no problem thanks to his left jab, but said "I'd be done" if White took things to the ground.
Ryan Garcia's rancorous relationship with promoter Oscar De La Hoya is no secret and has been front-page (boxing) news for a while now.
Garcia's fight with Benn is apparently his last fight under his Golden Boy contract, but the relationship may not go quite that quietly.
De La Hoya is apparently in Vegas and took to social media to suggest he may have a surprise in store for Saturday night.
The main-event fighters jawed for weeks about whether or not Conor Benn would be able to boil himself down to the 147-pound welterweight limit.
He'd been 150 pounds or more in four of his five most recent fights and hadn't been 147 or below since 2022.
Not only did he hit the number, actually coming in at a trim 146, he immediately re-climbed the weight ladder after the official weight was committed to paper.
Backstage footage from Team Benn showed that the fighter had rehydrated better than 30 pounds, to nearly 180 pounds, within just hours of his appearance.
But Garcia said at Thursday's press conference that Benn was setting himself up for physical damage because his brain wouldn't rehydrate as fast as his body.
Will it matter in the ring? We'll see.
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