Froch on Fighting<\/a>, two-division champion turned analyst Malignaggi said that he has not been impressed with Benn\u2019s recent performances, and doesn\u2019t believe the Brit has earned his place on the world stage.<\/p>\n\u201cIf his last name wasn\u2019t Benn, he wouldn\u2019t be anywhere near the level that he is on. Does that mean that I don\u2019t like the fact that he is here? No. He has taken advantage of the name, he has been promoted well, he has been moved well, I don\u2019t think that he is a world-class fighter, though.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis best performances were around the PED suspicion, he has not looked good since, he looked bad against the corpse that was Regis Prograis. I don\u2019t think that he is that good, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benn failed two doping tests in 2022, cancelling a Chris Eubank Jr fight that was not rescheduled until 2025.<\/p>\n
Malignaggi then went on to forecast a knockout win for Garcia in his the mandatory fight, before offering some words of advice to Benn.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gets knocked out [against Ryan Garcia]. I look at Conor like he is so determined to show everyone that he has power after the PED suspicions., he tries too hard to punch.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see it in the last fight [vs. Prograis], he is putting too much weight on his jab, he is trying to show people, \u2018No, I am really a natural puncher\u2019 \u2013 mate, you weren\u2019t and you are not a puncher.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy trying so hard to be a puncher when you are not a puncher, you are going to look worse. Just snap your punches out, be that fighter and that is it. Be the boxer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia has said that the fight will take place on September 12 in Las Vegas<\/a>, however, there is yet to be an official announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn is expected to challenge for Ryan Garcia\u2019s WBC welterweight world title later this year, looking to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632942","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\/632942","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=632942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}