{"id":772977,"date":"2026-09-16T22:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772977\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:46:22","slug":"roy-jones-jnr-urges-conor-benn-to-stay-in-his-lane-and-fight-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772977\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jnr urges Conor Benn to stay in his lane and fight Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jnr is the latest former fighter to voice his concern<\/a> over the future of Conor Benn if he perseveres at world class. Yet the legendary Jones, who has trained Benn\u2019s rival Chris Eubank Jnr in the past, believes the Briton can still bank further millions if he treads a different path.<\/p>\n

Benn was stopped in two rounds by Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas<\/a> last weekend. Largely one-way traffic from the start, Benn was unable to avoid the educated raids of the WBC welterweight champion and, after a heavy fall from a right hand, he was rescued with his back to the ropes in the second round.<\/p>\n

Zuffa Boxing’s Benn is yet to decide on his future<\/a>, but it seems unlikely, with him being just 29 and his value still likely substantial at the box office, he would consider walking away.<\/p>\n

Jones has urged Zuffa Boxing\u2019s Benn \u2013 who is currently 1-1 with Eubank Jnr at middleweight \u2013 to plot his route carefully.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not gonna be a world champion, no,\u201d Jones told Parimatch Slots Site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019s gonna make a lot of money for what he\u2019s doing. A lot of guys will wish they had that same fate. He\u2019s fortunate enough to have a situation where he can fight two more top-level fights. If I were him, I would just come back and run the Chris Eubank trilogy, for one. Then I\u2019d get one more fight, and I\u2019d be through with it. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor him, make the money and be gone. That\u2019s the best thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Eubank is one of two fights for Benn, who is the other?<\/p>\n

\u201cA Conor McGregor fight would be a lot more in Conor Benn\u2019s lane,\u201d said Jones, who won belts at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think if I had my dream wish for Conor Benn, it would be to fight Conor McGregor, and then to finish off with Chris Eubank and call it a day. That\u2019s two big-time multimillion-dollar fights. Zuffa makes their money back that they put into him, and we call it a day.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor Benn is gonna face two more brutal assaults unless he fights Eubank and somebody else like Conor McGregor. But if he doesn’t, he\u2019s gonna face two more brutal assaults, because he\u2019s gotta fight names for them to make the money that they paid him. Benn vs. McGregor is a really interesting fight. Depends on who trains them both, but it\u2019d be a really interesting fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, who admitted he would work with Benn if approached, identified where it all went wrong against Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked like whoever trained Benn didn\u2019t do the homework,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody knows Ryan has an awesome left hook. If Ryan hits you with the left hook, it\u2019s gonna be a short night for you, as we saw. So, I thought Benn would come out and avoid the left hook, make it difficult for him to land the left hook right away. But when I saw him get hit with it three times in a row, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, this is over already.\u2019 I just felt like they didn\u2019t prepare him right, because he wasn\u2019t prepared to deal with the left hook.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second mistake could have been that they spent more time making weight than getting ready for the fight. Sometimes that happens, and that will take away everything from you. When your camp is focused on making weight instead of fighting, it\u2019s a different camp. It\u2019s a whole different style of camp, a whole different type of camp. You don\u2019t get to work on blocking the left hook and doing things like that, because your biggest accomplishment in training camp is making weight. That\u2019s what it can look like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jnr is the latest former fighter to voice his concern over the future of Conor Benn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,13605,6661,903,238560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-conor-benn","tag-eubank","tag-mcgregor","tag-roy-jones-jnr","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772977","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=772977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}