Garcia will defend his WBC 147-pound title against Benn on September 12 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Their 12-round fight was officially announced on social media Wednesday evening.

The Garcia-Benn card will be live globally on Paramount+ and exclusively on DAZN across UK and Ireland, with Garcia (25-2, 20 KOs, 1 NC) making his first world championship defense.

It means returning to the same location where he outboxed and outpointed Mario Barrios, winning a wide unanimous decision (119-108, 120-107, 118-109) on February 21. That victory was his first since December 2023, where he stopped Oscar Duarte in the eighth round of their 140-pound catchweight contest.

The Victorville, California native’s majority-decision victory over rival Devin Haney in April 2024 was changed to a no-contest because Garcia tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance.

Garcia, 27, is The Ring’s No. 5-ranked welterweight.

England’s Benn (25-1, 14 KOs) will get his first world title opportunity. He last fought at the welterweight limit of 147 pounds in April 2022, when the son of British legend Nigel Benn stopped Chris Van Heerden in the second round.

Benn, 29, is coming off a one-sided, unanimous-decision victory over two-time junior welterweight titleholder Regis Prograis on April 11 in a 10-round, 150-pound catchweight bout at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.