{"id":611679,"date":"2026-04-16T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:58:08","slug":"conor-benns-performance-was-more-troubling-than-tyson-furys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611679\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn\u2019s performance was more troubling than Tyson Fury\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">His longest-term rival, Anthony Joshua, is in a really good position. If he wanted he could fight Deontay Wilder or Fury next. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to rush to share his intentions with everyone \u2013 I expect him to let them chase him. Wilder, being a puncher, would represent a risk as a tune-up for Fury, but I can actually see Joshua fighting Wilder first, and then Fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His longest-term rival, Anthony Joshua, is in a really good position. If he wanted he could fight Deontay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,182620,6653,30027,16966,297156,85,8691],"class_list":{"0":"post-611679","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-boxingnews","12":"tag-boxingscene","13":"tag-conor-benn","14":"tag-paulie-malignaggi","15":"tag-paulies-picks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tyson-fury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611679","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=611679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}