{"id":737701,"date":"2026-08-14T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:24:08","slug":"carl-froch-rates-conor-benns-boxing-ability-out-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737701\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch rates Conor Benn’s boxing ability out of 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Froch has rated Conor Benn out of ten as his fellow Brit goes for gold against WBC champion Ryan Garcia on September 12.<\/p>\n

The two welterweights will collide at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena, with Garcia making his first world title defence since dethroning Mario Barrios<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

It was arguably a career-best performance that saw him (a) score a first-round knockdown and (b) claim a dominant unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

But while some already consider Garcia a world-class fighter, others feel that the 28-year-old must prove his top-level credentials against a more formidable opponent.<\/p>\n

He did, after all, suffer a points defeat to Rolando Romero<\/a> in May 2025, just over a year after his majority decision triumph over Devin Haney was ruled a no-contest.<\/p>\n

This was because the American tested positive for banned substance ostarine, for which he served a 12-month ban and received further criticism after returning with an uninspiring performance. Like Garcia, Benn tested positive for a banned substance \u2013 clomifene \u2013 and was eventually removed from his cancelled 2022 encounter with Eubank.<\/p>\n

But while Garcia is hardly a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame just yet, it must be said that Benn is even less qualified for a status of such magnitude.<\/p>\n

In fact, the 29-year-old has not fought at 147lbs since 2022, with his last two wins coming via unanimous decision against faded versions of Chris Eubank Jr and Regis Prograis.<\/p>\n

But even without mentioning his lack of signature wins at welterweight, former world champion Froch gave Benn a below-average rating on his YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor Benn\u2019s a solid three out of ten.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old will be looking to prove analysis like this wrong when he steps up against Garcia in September, with a world title win silencing doubters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch has rated Conor Benn out of ten as his fellow Brit goes for gold against WBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737701","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\/737701","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=737701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}