{"id":560833,"date":"2026-03-26T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560833\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:01:14","slug":"conor-benn-talks-signing-with-zuffa-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560833\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn talks signing with Zuffa Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn just caught up with talkSPORT to discuss his much discussed signing with Zuffa Boxing, leaving behind Eddie Hearn and Matchroom after they spent many years going to bat for him during his drug test controversy. While Hearn has given his reaction<\/a> to the news, Benn had largely been quiet on the matter. Here\u2019s some of what he had to say on his decision to work with Zuffa.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s the best decision for me, my family, my career,\u201d Benn said. \u201cIt\u2019s a one-fight deal which I\u2019m ultimately very excited about. It was a matter of \u2018do you want to get out there?\u2019 Yeah, sweet, no problem. And here I am. It was a quick turnaround, I stayed in shape, I stayed ready, I stayed disciplined, and ultimately activity is key for me\u2026An opportunity was presented to me that I couldn\u2019t turn down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got love for Matchroom. I\u2019ve got love for Eddie. Irrelevant to what they\u2019ve been saying, what\u2019s been said, I still want Eddie in my corner. I don\u2019t hold any type of feelings towards him. If you ask me to choose out of my family and what sets my family up and my family\u2019s legacy \u2014 my kids are my legacy\u2026When I\u2019m done nobody will care, and there will be a new one of me.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake hay while the sun is shining and take the best deal for me and what I feel is right for me and my family and it was the best deal by a country mile. So for me I\u2019m excited to be boxing under the Zuffa banner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn will take on Regis Prograis on April 11 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and expects to secure a world title opportunity soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn just caught up with talkSPORT to discuss his much discussed signing with Zuffa Boxing, leaving behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-560833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560833","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=560833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}