{"id":421136,"date":"2026-02-12T04:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421136\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:23:22","slug":"conor-benn-offered-world-title-shot-but-warned-he-gets-beaten-easy-it-would-be-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421136\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn Offered World Title Shot But Warned He Gets Beaten ‘Easy’: “It Would Be Unfair”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> is busy plotting his next move as he zeroes in on winning a world title in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

Benn announced his arrival on the world stage when he beat Chris Eubank Jr by unanimous points decision after knocking his rival down twice in their rematch back in November.<\/p>\n

The first fight in April saw the opposite happen when it was Benn who lost a decision. However, a better performance the second time round, coupled with what many suspect was a weight drained Eubank, saw him get his career best win.<\/p>\n

He has since said his main focus is big fights and recognised belts and, speaking to talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>, newly crowned world champion Josh Kelly has put himself forward by saying a fight with Benn would be an easy tick over for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, we\u2019ve been going back and forth for years so it\u2019s a natural fight to make, especially with him coming down to 147. He says he\u2019s trying to make that. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s truth in him making that or not.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re both big names in the UK. The Stadium of Light would be sold out in a second. Give him his dues, he\u2019s come on in the last few years. He beat a shell of a man in Eubank in the last fight. I think it might be a bit unfair on him tossing him in with me at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure he\u2019s ever fought at the top level, in the higher echelon with people in their prime. For me, it\u2019s an easy money fight, a tick over fight before I fight someone else, if he ever gets the cajones to jump in. We\u2019ll soon see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly beat Bakhram Murtazaliev last month to become the IBF light-middleweight champion<\/a>. Benn has said he is chasing the winner of Mario Barrios and Ryan Garcia, who fight later this month, or a fight with WBA welterweight ruler Rolly Romero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn is busy plotting his next move as he zeroes in on winning a world title in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421136","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\/421136","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=421136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}