Conor Benn still has plenty to prove to the boxing world.
The welterweight contender got the best win of his career late last year when he soundly beat Chris Eubank Jr in their rematch.
Having lost the first fight via unanimous decision, when Eubank Jr used his natural size advantages and greater ring experience to keep his rival at bay, Benn turned the tables and it was he who dominated from the first to the last bell, though many think Jr was weight drained.
After moving up to 160lbs for both of those contests, he is now looking to push on to bigger fights down in his more usual welterweight division, where the likes of multi-weight American champion Devin Haney operate.
Speaking to The Ariel Helawani Show, Haney laid into Benn’s career and accused him of achieving nothing.
“Conor Benn hasn’t accomplished nowhere near what I have accomplished. If we both were to retire today, ask the fans whose career they would rather have, my career, or his career? And I’m younger than Conor Benn. He’s accomplished nothing.
“His biggest win is against a weight-drained guy. He lost the first fight. He has to rematch against the guy that he lost to, that he had to weight drain and put all these stipulations on, and the guy he lost to was never even world champion. Benn is nowhere near world champion. He’s Eddie Hearn’s little puppet.”
Outside of the two fights with Eubank, it is fair to say Benn has fought only low level opposition or fighters past their best, including the like of Chris Algieri and Chris Van Heerden.
After his win over Eubank last year, he is now keen to step up and fight for a world title, with the winner of Ryan Garcia versus Mario Barrios one likely route he will take.
