Thoughts on Connor Benn

Aaaaand back to Connor Benn.............................................. ..............

Young Benn looked so composed in recent fights then one cracking right-hand, a wild punchup, multi-knockdowns, a "robbery" and he's finished. Well that was the impression coming from the TV and the usual cabal of spastic internet boxing "fans."

Thought the pundits, Adam, Bellew, and Eddie were way too harsh on him.

1. It was a cracking fight.
2. He showed some goolies.
3. Who cares about the scorecards in a 6-round up-and-downer? Benn won the fricking fight, he scored two impressive knockdowns himself for gawds sake, just because Sky/Bellew had the other geezer nicking it, doesn't make it so.

Yeah, it shows he's not the next Loma or Rigo, but the poor sod was so apologetic afterwards it was as though his career was finished.

Lolz I cried fix in the fight thread however it was in jest? I didn't have it three rounds but it was a nothing fight so it didn't matter.

I agree with Eddie they shouldn't have had that fight so soon after the previous, if they had a rematch Benn would deal with him easy, he just had an off night is all.

Oh I didn't see that, i don't even open Masterthons anymore. Torture, pure torture. If you can't see it it doesn't exist. Out of sight out of mind.

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Originally Posted by Fenster

Oh I didn't see that, i don't even open Masterthons anymore. Torture, pure torture. If you can't see it it doesn't exist. Out of sight out of mind.

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Ha yeah I cried FIIIXXXX.

I didn't bother scoring it, I just enjoyed the scrap.
Benn is one of them fighters I can just enjoy, I'm not invested in his career, it's just interesting to see how far he goes.

That performance will most likely do him the world of good, his bottle has been tested and it's the first time he's been in trouble so he'll be better prepared next time.

I doubt he'll be taking 2 fight in one month again though

He clawed victory from the jaws of defeat in a fight he had no real business winning after the start he had so lets give the bloke some props for that.

He got caught square for the first knockdown and that pretty much rubber stamped it as carnage from that point on. There's no boxing your way back into it when you drop a 10-7 opener in a 6 round fight, knockdowns aside you cant draw level until the penultimate round and Benn's not got that game anyway. There's zero margin for error.

He looked poor, no zip to his work. He got out of jail, learn from it.

He needs to stop charging in like a maniac that's for sure, badly marked up after only a 6 rounder.


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It was a bit of a setback but it's not the end of the world. They need to bring him along more slowly and carefully than they are. I think he'd be better off with Warren than Hearn.