{"id":510642,"date":"2026-04-03T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510642\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:15:06","slug":"eddie-hearn-says-everyone-knows-the-conor-benn-vs-prograis-situation-hes-badly-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510642\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn says ‘everyone knows’ the Conor Benn vs Prograis situation: “He’s badly injured”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a well-documented split from Matchroom, Conor Benn<\/a> is set to debut with Zuffa Boxing next weekend in a catchweight affair against Regis Prograis. Now, former promoter Eddie Hearn has shared his feelings on the fight.<\/p>\n

Benn has fought up at middleweight in his last two outings against Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> and at super-welterweight in the two prior to that. As a result, it was always going to be difficult to jump straight back in at welterweight, the division in which he wants to win a world title.<\/p>\n

Consequently, this next outing is set at 150lbs, against two-time 140lb world champion, Prograis, with Benn confident that he will fight for Ryan Garcia\u2019s WBC crown before the end of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, in an interview with iFL TV<\/a>, Hearn said that Prograis is \u2018badly injured\u2019 and \u2018should not be in the ring.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone out there, use your brain. You think that there have been no other conversations or agreements beyond a one-fight deal to fight Regis Prograis over 10 rounds for $15 million? Regis Prograis \u2013 who shouldn\u2019t even be in the ring because he is that badly injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor is getting 15 mil, for a 10-round fight, with no futures at all? \u2018No Conor, you can take this fight, if not, you can go elsewhere!\u2019 \u2013 wake the f**k up. That\u2019s all I am going to say, because the truth shall come to light, very soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody knows about Regis Prograis. I\u2019m not gonna discredit Regis Prograis or the fight. Everyone knows the situation. Whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n

These comments follow many rumours behind the scenes that Prograis was close to dropping out, though the American shut down that talk and said he was fully firing and coming for the win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fight will be the co-main event of the Fury-Makhmudov bill on Saturday, April 11, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium<\/a> \u2013 with the entirety of that card being broadcast live on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a well-documented split from Matchroom, Conor Benn is set to debut with Zuffa Boxing next weekend in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510642","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\/510642","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=510642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}