Boxing King Media<\/a>, Taylor admitted that he considers the fight a \u2018bizarre\u2019 one, believing that Prograis \u2018is not the same\u2019 fighter that he once was.<\/p>\n\u201cI think that it is a bit of a strange move. Conor moved away from Matchroom because he wants to go and have massive fights and world titles and all of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, he goes and fights Regis Prograis who, with all due respect, I think has been finished for a long time. His last couple of performances haven\u2019t been great at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving said that, he is still a great fighter, still a world level fighter, but he is not the same Prograis that he was before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that it is a bizarre move but at the same time, fair play to both lads, they are getting money and they are getting paid very handsomely for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although, Taylor maintained that the New Orleans operator has a chance of overcoming Benn if he can roll back the years, believing the underdog to be the better technical boxer of the two.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo a certain extent, yes, [I do give Regis Prograis a chance]. I think that he might make it a little bit awkward and he might box, because Conor Benn is not the best of boxers, he is not a great boxer. He is aggressive, he is tough and he is strong, but he is not the best of boxers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that Regis is the better boxer but he is a 140lber, he is a little bit small height-wise as well and he is way past his best. Conor should win, but he will give him problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benn-Prograis is the co-main event of the Fury-Makhmudov bill at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday, April 11, with the whole card being available to watch live on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn is set to make his Zuffa Boxing debut against Regis Prograis next month and now Josh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-524850","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\/524850","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=524850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}