{"id":77308,"date":"2022-08-01T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=77308"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:32:07","slug":"garcia-defeats-benavidez-in-his-super-welterweight-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/garcia-defeats-benavidez-in-his-super-welterweight-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia defeats Benavidez in his super welterweight debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"x_MsoNormal elementToProof\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Garcia defeats Benavidez in his super welterweight debut<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Two-time world champion Danny &#8220;Swift&#8221; Garcia, returned to the ring after almost\u00a0 twenty months,\u00a0 to defeat his compatriot Jos\u00e9 Benavidez Jr. by majority decision, in the main event this Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal elementToProof\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Known as a counterpunching expert, blessed with a powerful left hook, Garcia attacked early and often, targeting Benavidez&#8217;s body and head.\u00a0 Garcia&#8217;s superior hand and foot speed left Benavidez following him for much of the night, looking to land right hands-on over Garcia&#8217;s left hook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal elementToProof\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Two Judges scored 116-112 and 117-111 in favor of Garcia, while another scored 114-114.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Garcia had not fought since December 2020, when he was defeated by Errol Spence Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal elementToProof\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the post-fight interview, he acknowledged that this inactivity was caused by depression, anxiety and family issues. Garcia got very emotional talking about his mental health struggles during the post-fight interview,\u00a0 but concluded with a broad smile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garcia defeats Benavidez in his super welterweight debut \u00a0Two-time world champion Danny &#8220;Swift&#8221; Garcia, returned to the ring after almost\u00a0 twenty months,\u00a0 to defeat his compatriot<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":77302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}