{"id":629817,"date":"2026-04-25T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:55:07","slug":"world-champion-says-conor-benn-pulled-out-of-fight-after-the-whole-deal-was-set-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629817\/","title":{"rendered":"World champion says Conor Benn pulled out of fight after the ‘whole deal was set up’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> could be set for a world title shot against Ryan Garcia<\/a>, but there is one reigning world champion who claims that the Briton recently pulled out of a shot at his belt, despite \u2018the whole deal being set up\u2019.<\/p>\n

Benn made his Zuffa Boxing debut earlier this month, outpointing Regis Prograis in a 150lb catchweight bout<\/a> \u2013 his first contest below 154lbs in four years \u2013 and now looks poised to challenge for world honours as a welterweight.<\/p>\n

Although, whilst his position as the WBC mandatory challenger has lined him up for a clash with Garcia, the WBA champion of the 147lb division, Rolando Romero, has claimed that Benn pulled out of a bid for his title.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, \u2018Rolly\u2019 explained why he doubts whether the Garcia fight will go ahead and revealed that he had been expecting to fight Benn, until \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 had a change of heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor Benn ducked me, we had the whole deal set up, we were going to fight May 30 in New York for my world title and then he just disappeared out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

Conor Benn was over there, begging for the fight with me. We had the whole deal set up, by the way, but he is over there in New York trying to cause all of that commotion and other stuff \u2013 he did it for clout. Same thing with this, he might be doing this with Ryan for clout too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are over there trying to make all of this stuff, I don\u2019t do that fake beef. That\u2019s what throws me off, you go and do all of that fake beef and then you come over here, act like a big, tough guy, then you go run off and not fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe might be doing that with Ryan, because Ryan would knock him out cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia and Benn could collide in Las Vegas <\/a>this summer as Benn returns to the welterweight division in an immediate world title challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn could be set for a world title shot against Ryan Garcia, but there is one reigning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-629817","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629817","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=629817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}