{"id":176796,"date":"2025-10-03T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176796\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:51:16","slug":"conor-benn-wants-to-achieve-american-dream-after-chris-eubank-jr-chapter-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176796\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn Wants To Achieve American Dream After Chris Eubank Jr. Chapter Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> says that once his rematch with Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>. is out of the way, he wants to bring a world title home from the United States.
Benn (23-1, 14 KOs), who lost to Eubank (35-3, 25 KOs) on points<\/a> in a thrilling contest at the top of The Ring’s first ever card in April, will rematch his generational rival once again Nov. 15 back at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium<\/a>. The fight, titled ‘Unfinished Business’ will be streamed live on DAZN PPV<\/a>.
‘The Destroyer’ has spoken before of his love for the WBC title<\/a>, however, and a clash with current champ Mario Barrios back at welterweight, two weights below the 160-pound limit he will fight Eubank at for a second time, remains on the agenda.
However Benn has also set his sights on some of American boxing’s biggest stars, namely Devin Haney<\/a> and Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.Haney will fight Brian Norman Jr<\/a>. on ‘Ring IV: Night of the Champions’ Nov. 22 for the WBO 147-pound championship. Stevenson is the current WBC lightweight champion, but will likely make a move to both junior welterweight and welterweight in the near future.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to fight Barrios, [but] once I’ve got the WBC title … it’s a hard one,” Benn said on the latest episode of ‘Inside The Ring’. “I’d like Shakur [Stevenson], all the yanks, all the Americans. They’re currently killing it. Obviously you’ve got Lewis Crocker over here who won the IBF title … but Devin Haney-Brian Norman, I’d love the winner, same for Shakur, if he wants to come up.<\/p>\n

“Any of your top guys, you want to compare yourself to them. We put them on a pedestal over here, so you really wanna mix it with them and do a number on them.”<\/p>\n

Following Benn’s defeat to Eubank on Apr. 26, the 29-year-old made his way over to New York City to attend The Ring’s second card in Times Square, which Haney and fellow star Ryan Garcia fought on in separate fights. Haney beat Jose Ramirez<\/a> while Garcia lost to Rolando Romero<\/a> in the main event. Both, however, failed to impress. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Benn spent much of the week completing endless media duties and soaking in the adulation for competing in a Fight of the Year contender just days prior.<\/p>\n

But the thought of heading back across the pond with world title gold in mind means a lot more to the Essex man.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’m quite well-known over there,” he added. “Whenever I go to the States the love they show me is second to none. But I’ve always wanted to go over there, win the title and bring it home, that’s just something I’ve always wanted to do.<\/p>\n

“Going there and beating your champion and bringing it home, there’s something rewarding in that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn says that once his rematch with Chris Eubank Jr. is out of the way, he wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-176796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}