{"id":520179,"date":"2026-04-08T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:29:07","slug":"conor-benn-responds-to-reports-regis-prograis-is-badly-injured-for-their-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520179\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn responds to reports Regis Prograis is ‘badly injured’ for their fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> has had his say on the claims that Regis Prograis<\/a> is injured heading into their fight this weekend.<\/p>\n

Benn and Prograis collide in a 150lb catchweight bout<\/a> in the co-main event of the Tyson Fury vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov card at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.<\/p>\n

It sees Benn back in action for the first time since his two fights with bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr in 2025. Eubank came out on top in the first meeting, but in the rematch Benn dropped his opponent on his way to a dominant unanimous decision win.<\/p>\n

Those two contests took place at 160lbs, with Benn now planning to return to the welterweight division, starting with this catchweight bout against Prograis on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Around a week ago, it was heavily rumoured that former super-lightweight world champion Prograis was \u2018badly injured\u2019<\/a> and would be forced to pull out of the fight, but instead the 37-year-old is proceeding with the showdown.<\/p>\n

Benn has now spoken out about the matter, telling Boxing News that the outcome will be the same irrespective of the condition of Prograis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether he\u2019s injured or not isn\u2019t my problem\u2026.I ain\u2019t bothered about if he\u2019s injured or not. If he\u2019s injured it\u2019s not a smart move on his end. He\u2019s getting paid a fortune. If he isn\u2019t injured, it\u2019s not going to make a difference regardless, the outcome will still be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s card will be broadcast live on Netflix, and also includes a British heavyweight title fight between Jeamie TKV and Richard Riakporhe, and another heavyweight battle as Justis Huni meets Frazer Clarke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn has had his say on the claims that Regis Prograis is injured heading into their fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-520179","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\/520179","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=520179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}