{"id":597556,"date":"2026-04-10T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597556\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:02:08","slug":"regis-prograis-was-never-on-conor-benns-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597556\/","title":{"rendered":"Regis Prograis was \u2018never on Conor Benn\u2019s radar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cI think the Benn name is familiar over there \u2013 not because of me, but because of my dad [Nigel] going over there and beating the champions,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Benn name is familiar in boxing over there. Over here, I\u2019m known commercially, which hasn\u2019t yet hit America. But if you\u2019re talking boxing in America, they\u2019re familiar with the name over there. Obviously, the wins over [Chris] Van Heerden, [Chris] Algieri, [Samuel] Vargas were probably my three best performances \u2013 against three Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think the Benn name is familiar over there \u2013 not because of me, but because of my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,30027,64839,291593,13277,291594,69941,37653,13417,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-597556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-conor-benn","12":"tag-devin-haney","13":"tag-fury-makhmudov","14":"tag-josh-taylor","15":"tag-kiko-martinez","16":"tag-regis-prograis","17":"tag-ryan-garcia","18":"tag-shakur-stevenson","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597556","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=597556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}