Eddie Hearn knows Conor Benn as well as anyone and even he isn’t sure exactly what went wrong in Benn’s loss to Ryan Garcia this past Saturday.
Benn challenged Garcia for the WBC welterweight title in Las Vegas, but didn’t make it out of the second round after Garcia stunned him with a right hand before eventually earning a victory via technical knockout. It was just the second loss for Benn, who was challenging for a world title for the first time.
Hearn, Benn’s former boss at Matchroom Boxing, expected a Garcia win, but was still disappointed by what he saw from “The Destroyer.”
“My last few predictions were that I thought Ryan Garcia would wi
