{"id":280013,"date":"2025-11-24T04:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280013\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:29:11","slug":"norman-jr-vs-haney-conor-benn-criticises-new-welterweight-world-champion-devin-haney-speaks-on-next-opponent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280013\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Jr vs Haney: Conor Benn criticises new welterweight world champion Devin Haney, speaks on next opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conor Benn criticised Devin Haney&#8217;s performance after the American beat Brian Norman Jr to become a three-weight world champion in Riyadh on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haney scored a knockdown in round two but was unable to get the stoppage on his welterweight debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benn is plotting a return to welterweight and had said he was keen on fighting the winner of Norman Jr v Haney, but could be seen yawning as he watched from ringside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t entertainment in there and it&#8217;s the entertainment business,&#8221; Benn told DAZN. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I put on fight of the year contenders. He (Haney) puts people to sleep, and not in the ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judges scored it 114-113, 117-110 and 116-111 in favour of the 27-year-old in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benn is planning a move back down in weight after jumping up two divisions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cq50xy6d1d9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His promoter, Eddie Hearn, agreed with his assessment of Haney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Haney is fighting scared. He doesn&#8217;t want to engage,&#8221; Hearn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn criticised Devin Haney&#8217;s performance after the American beat Brian Norman Jr to become a three-weight world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-280013","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\/280013","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=280013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}