{"id":539346,"date":"2026-04-19T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:10:08","slug":"carl-froch-questions-conor-benns-level-after-rewatching-prograis-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539346\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch questions Conor Benn’s level after rewatching Prograis fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Froch has given another honest assessment of Conor Benn<\/a>\u2019s performance against Regis Prograis<\/a>, considering his chances in a potential clash with Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Destroyer\u2019 claimed a wide points victory over Prograis earlier this month, featuring on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But despite defeating the veteran at 150lbs, Benn has received no small amount of criticism for the manner in which he went about his business.<\/p>\n

Given that Prograis announced his retirement soon after, and confirmed pre-fight injury rumours, many expected Benn to at least get his man out of there.<\/p>\n

As it happened, though, the two-time world champion at no point seemed in any real danger, other than perhaps the opening round when his legs buckled from a right hand.<\/p>\n

Yet despite hardly setting the world alight over 10 rounds<\/a>, Benn is now likely to secure a world title shot against WBC champion Garcia.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old claimed his welterweight belt in February, scoring a unanimous decision victory over Mario Barrios after flooring his man in the opening round.<\/p>\n

As the WBC\u2019s No.1 contender, Benn is widely expected to enter a summer showdown with Garcia, who has already teased a possible date in August.<\/p>\n

Froch, however, has said on his YouTube channel, Froch On Fighting<\/a>, that he doubts whether the 29-year-old would make it past round three against Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what: that performance against Regis Prograis was f**king awful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not being horrible, but this is a guy that\u2019s now talking and shouting about Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn that performance, Ryan Garcia absolutely splatters him within three rounds, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor Benn was struggling to get his distance, his range [against Prograis] \u2013 he was leaping in with his chin in the air; he was walking into shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got no punching power. What\u2019s happened to him? Why doesn\u2019t he punch [hard] anymore? Why is he not ferocious?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe needs to tidy up his fighting style, his defence. He needs to get behind the jab; he needs to become more of a boxer and a mover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn has not scored any stoppages since 2022, when his second-round finish over Chris van Heerden was followed by two positive tests for banned substance clomifine, albeit several months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch has given another honest assessment of Conor Benn\u2019s performance against Regis Prograis, considering his chances in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539346","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=539346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}