{"id":426969,"date":"2026-02-15T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:09:15","slug":"andre-ward-warns-conor-benn-he-will-suffer-defeat-again-if-he-keeps-targeting-one-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426969\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ward Warns Conor Benn He Will Suffer Defeat Again If He Keeps Targeting One Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andre Ward<\/a> has suggested that Conor Benn<\/a> needs to steer clear of one man if he wants to avoid another loss in the ring.<\/p>\n

Benn is riding high off his unanimous decision win over his arch rival Chris Eubank Jr, and is now pursuing a world title.<\/p>\n

He has claimed he wants to fight either Rolly Romero or the winner of Mario Barrios\u2019 defence against Ryan Garcia<\/a>, which is on 21 February, but also stepped into the ring after Shakur Stevenson\u2019s latest fight to call him out.<\/p>\n

Speaking to talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>, Ward was asked what he thinks would happen if Benn were to get a fight with four weight world champion Stevenson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it could be fun, it\u2019s a fun fight, it\u2019s going to be a fun build up. Conor Benn is dangerous, he\u2019s very strong, you know what he\u2019s going to bring to the table and you know how he\u2019s moving and that\u2019s straight ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to step on the gas as long and as hard as he can so I think from that standpoint and Shakur being the smaller fighter I think that\u2019s going to make for an interesting match up but ultimately skills and IQ and ability and ring smarts are going to win out again. It\u2019s going to net out with Shaker Stevenson being the dominant fighter at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson just soundly outfought fellow multi-weight champion Teofimo Lopez<\/a> to get a wide decision on the cards and become WBO junior welterweight champion and extend his unbeaten record. If he were to fight Benn, it would be by far the toughest challenge of the Brit\u2019s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Ward has suggested that Conor Benn needs to steer clear of one man if he wants to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-426969","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\/426969","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=426969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}