Prograis didn\u2019t blame his loss on the one thing most apparent to those watching — his legs are just shot. He was facing a far larger opponent in Connor Benn, and his heart was never in question as he gamely fought back.<\/p>\n
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Regis Prograis | IMAGO \/ PA Image<\/p>\n
Connor Benn (25-1, 14 KOs) took a wide decision (the scores were 98-92, 98-92, 98-92) over the two-time junior welterweight world champion in Prograis. After Benn was cut in the fourth round, he appeared content to let Prograis cruise.<\/p>\n
Prograis final fight wasn\u2019t in front of a crowd roaring his name, but it was one he silenced. It’s hard to think of a more silent crowd of 60,000 than the one at Tottenham on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Prograis fought four times outside of the United States during his career: three times in the United Kingdom (all losses) and once in Dubai, where he stopped Tyrone McKenna in six.<\/p>\n
His first international was the most consequential of these as he came very close to defeating Josh Taylor at the O2 Arena in London\u2019s Docklands to become the first four-belt era. Prograis dropped a close majority decision to his Scottish foe. Had he prevailed on October 26, 2019, his boxing career may have looked very different.<\/p>\n
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Regis Prograis | Stephen Lew-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Boxers have a tough time staying away, and only time will tell if this is the case for Prograis as well. His rib and hand injuries are typical for a fighter his age \u2013 the eye injury less so.<\/p>\n
Prograis would not have to look farther than the ringside this weekend for a case in point. Former heavyweight contender Derek Chisora made\u00a0his own grand arrival to the Fury-Makhumdov event. Chisora wore a t-shirt that read \u201cRetirement is for P—ies,\u201d though it’s unclear whether he is displaying his humor or actually coming out of retirement. <\/p>\n
Like a horn fading into the humid night in his native New Orleans, Prograis fought with soul to the end and proved his “Rougarou” moniker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regis Prograis fought his last leg on Saturday night. Conor Benn is not a great inside fighter, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-603246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603246","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=603246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}