{"id":277151,"date":"2025-11-22T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277151\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:45:04","slug":"conor-benn-offered-immediate-shot-at-world-title-it-wont-last-five-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277151\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn offered immediate shot at world title: “It won’t last five rounds”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> has been invited to walk straight into a world title fight, albeit against a champion that has seemingly flown under his radar.<\/p>\n

It was exactly a week ago that the 29-year-old exacted his revenge on Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>, his fierce rival, after losing their first encounter via a unanimous decision in April.<\/p>\n

This time around, it appeared that a more measured performance contributed to a drastic turn of events, which ultimately exposed Eubank as a severely depleted version of his former self.<\/p>\n

A combination of his age, and a not-so-friendly encounter with the scales, seemed to offer the 36-year-old a lack of vigour throughout their middleweight rematch.<\/p>\n

Benn, on the other hand, was able to keep to his gameplan, and even score two knockdowns in the final round, before claiming a wide points victory.<\/p>\n

Then, shortly after getting his hand raised, the Ilford man doubled down on his desire to move back down in weight and chase the world champions at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

More specifically, Benn has set his sights on Mario Barrios, the WBC welterweight champion, who is instead set to face Ryan Garcia<\/a> this coming February.<\/p>\n

Confused as to why he did not receive a mention, meanwhile, is IBF champion Lewis Crocker, who called out Benn immediately after his points victory over Paddy Donovan in September.<\/p>\n

Crocker has insisted on Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Flash Knockdown podcast<\/a> that a potential clash with Benn is unlikely to go past five rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s mentioned the other champions, and I just don\u2019t know how it doesn\u2019t make sense for me and him to [fight]. It would be an absolute war.<\/p>\n

I just think, a fight like that \u2013 me and Benn \u2013 it\u2019s just [going to be] toe-to-toe. I don\u2019t think that one\u2019s going past five rounds.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s just more for the fans. We both wear our heart on our sleeve, and we\u2019ll both go out there and put it all on the line.<\/p>\n

[We\u2019re] two big punchers, so it\u2019s sure to be pure fireworks from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn has been invited to walk straight into a world title fight, albeit against a champion that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-277151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277151","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=277151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}