{"id":505114,"date":"2026-02-28T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:12:19","slug":"fury-v-makhmudov-conor-benn-to-fight-regis-prograis-on-undercard-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505114\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury v Makhmudov: Conor Benn to fight Regis Prograis on undercard in April"},"content":{"rendered":"

“But this circle will close with me teaching him a lesson.<\/p>\n

“He’s not fighting some weight-drained super middleweight. I am in shape and will bring home this victory.”<\/p>\n

Fury is signed to Frank Warren’s Queensberry, but TKO president Mark Shapiro said on Wednesday that Zuffa Boxing will promote the fight, which will be shown on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Prograis, 37, is a former world champion at light-welterweight, but has two losses in his past three outings, including to Jack Catterall<\/a> and Devin Haney.<\/p>\n

Benn’s most recent outing was in November when he defeated Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> in a rematch.<\/p>\n

Both bouts against Eubank were at middleweight, but Benn intends to campaign at welterweight as he seeks to earn a world title shot.<\/p>\n

“My last fight there showed the world exactly who I am and what I’m about,” he said. <\/p>\n

“Fighting on the biggest stages, in the biggest shows, I fear no-one.”<\/p>\n

Fury, who has not fought since losing to Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024, will fight Russian Arslanbek Makhmudov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“But this circle will close with me teaching him a lesson. “He’s not fighting some weight-drained super middleweight.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-505114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}