However, it appears the former two-time world champion has already made a U-turn. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll come back in a few years,\u201d Prograis told The Ring<\/a>. \u201cWhen I\u2019m like 40 years old I\u2019ll come back. It just won\u2019t be at 140 pounds, but I\u2019ll come back.\u201dThe speed, power, and reflexes that made Prograis<\/a> (30-4, 24 KOs) a world champion have not been on display for a couple of years now. But even a diminished version of the ex-junior welterweight titlist was enough to give Benn issues during a 150-pound catchweight bout. Benn won the bout via unanimous decision<\/a>, with all three judges scoring the bout 98-92. The Ilford man, currently the WBC’s No. 1 contender at 147 pounds, will now hope to go on and fight for a world titles.Prograis, however, believes Benn<\/a> needs to improve, especially if he’s to fight Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Conor Benn can become a world champion because anything can happen in boxing,\u201d Prograis said. \u201cSomeone can vacate the belts and get elevated, just anything can happen but as for him as a fighter, he has some things to work on. He\u2019s like a six out of 10. He\u2019s not that good. He\u2019s just not polished enough. He\u2019s strong, not gonna lie. His power is like an 8.5. So he does have a lot of power but he\u2019s not really polished right now.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has to work on his speed and set up shots. A lot of his punches I saw coming so I was able to brace for them. But he definitely has a few things to work on. Right now, he\u2019s just a fighter, a rugged fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think [the Garcia fight] would be a pretty good fight. Garcia has power, but Benn does, too. I don\u2019t know how Garcia would react if he got caught by Benn cause he can really punch. Both guys can hurt each other. That\u2019s a good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, it appears the former two-time world champion has already made a U-turn. \u201cI\u2019ll come back in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,58030,85,2974],"class_list":["post-609667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-featured-article","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609667","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=609667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}