{"id":408590,"date":"2026-02-05T03:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408590\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:39:07","slug":"conor-benn-at-the-stadium-of-light-is-easy-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408590\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn at the Stadium of Light is easy money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s crazy because the thing is, I think the \u2018Boots\u2019 fight will always be there, in my opinion. I think if he fights Vergil Ortiz or something like that, then that\u2019s a difficult fight, but I think he\u2019s always going to be there. I think he\u2019s a really good fighter, so I think that fight\u2019s always going to be there. So for me, first defense, do I want to go straight into probably the toughest fight in the division, which [although] I\u2019d back myself against anyone, I can out-trick anyone, but do I want to really? I\u2019ve just took a pressure fight there [against Murtazaliev]. I think for me, it\u2019s still a pressure fight, but I think Conor Benn in the Stadium of Light just makes sense for the British fans. I don\u2019t get why he\u2019s calling out Shakur Stevenson. Obvioulsy he [Shakur]\u2019s 135 and just moved up to 140, I\u2019d be like, \u2018Why is he [Benn] calling him out?\u2019 I know it\u2019s an American big name, but he\u2019s got nothing in common, he\u2019s got no history, he\u2019s just calling him out for money, or a payday, or a big fight. I\u2019ve got a legit world title, and he [Benn] was at 160, he boxed at 154 two or three times before he went to 160, so why not come and challenge me at 154 in the Stadium, a huge British blockbuster that would sell out the Stadium of Light in huge numbers, and it would be a nice win for me. It\u2019s a free win, I might as well take that free win in between me and getting all the other big lads in the division, so I get a bonus. Why not make it him?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s crazy because the thing is, I think the \u2018Boots\u2019 fight will always be there, in my opinion.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[15363,2560,6102,10078,13605,151964,15364,101,151965,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bakhram-murtazaliev","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-conor-benn","tag-ibf-world-title","tag-josh-kelly","tag-sports","tag-stadium-of-light","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408590","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=408590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}