{"id":496822,"date":"2026-02-22T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:22:07","slug":"conor-benn-couldnt-turn-down-offer-from-zuffa-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496822\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn \u2018couldn\u2019t turn down\u2019 offer from Zuffa Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhether it\u2019s easy or not, it\u2019s a decision I had to make for me and my family. In 10, 15 years time, when I\u2019m done and retired, will anybody care about me then? No. Nobody will. Right now I\u2019m hot property. Right now I\u2019m this; now I\u2019m that. In 10, 15 years time, when my kids are 20; when it\u2019s just me and my family sitting down somewhere quiet, is it going to matter? Is anyone going to care? No. Will another Conor Benn come along? Yes. I have to make the right decision for my family. Everything they\u2019ve done for me, I\u2019ll forever be grateful, but not over my blood family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhether it\u2019s easy or not, it\u2019s a decision I had to make for me and my family. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,6653,30027,9915,49934,85,114155],"class_list":["post-496822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxingscene","tag-conor-benn","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-matchroom","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}