Do you approve of Eddie Hearn's strict protection program for Conor Benn?

[Mammoth]

I don’t see it. Depends on your definition of world level, but for me you have to have competed and succeeded at world level to be world level.

Would you consider Avanesyan world level for example? He’s a European level guy for me.

I wouldn’t know what level Benn is cause they’re so opposed to putting him in with anybody with a pulse.

Yeah, Ava's world level. Benn is a top ten-ish guy most likely. Unfortunately, he's being babied.

[davef]

Would love to see him do well Nigel was my favourite fighter as a kid and to be fair hes gona a lot further so far than I expected

he looked British title level at best a few years ago now hes say Euro level and on the edge of World level but if he fought the top guys right now he would lose for sure so Hearn is going to cash in at some point once theres enough hype

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Yeah, Ava's world level. Benn is a top ten-ish guy most likely. Unfortunately, he's being babied.

He’s nowhere top 10 for me. He’s unexposed so I can’t completely rule him out but Benn is a one dimensional pressure fighter IMO. I’m pretty confident the first guy who forces him on the back foot will beat him.

[rickJen]

What seems hilarious to me is they're afraid of pitting Benn against guys whose records are not any better.
Ennis has been fighting Lipinets-level. Ortiz has been fighting left-overs. It took him 7 rounds to stop Vargas,
while Benn stopped him in the first round, and those fights were only one year apart.
Hooker was a career 140 when Ortiz fought him at welter and was a Ramirez left-over.
I don't really see anything much more impressive. I doubt Kavaliauskas would even last 6 rounds vs Benn.

[rickJen]

He would lose momentum eventually. Even when fighting Van Heerden types back to back. Right now he's in his element and I would rather pit him against the top guys now than later, if I were in full control of his fights.

We all have our own ups and downs. Not all fighters are fit in every fight. But Benn has been consistent. Mark my word, he'll eventually lose to a C-level fighter and not even get to fight at top level.

That would be what my concern would be all about if I were one of his caregivers.
He would eventually lack motivation fighting all these Van Heerden level opponents.
What's the point of fighting this level when at the end of the fight the media would just
sneer at you like all the efforts that have been put in were nothing.

[Mammoth]

He’s nowhere top 10 for me. He’s unexposed so I can’t completely rule him out but Benn is a one dimensional pressure fighter IMO. I’m pretty confident the first guy who forces him on the back foot will beat him.

All I can do is speculate

[sicko]

nobody would have problem with it if both of them STFU about how "Benn Is Ready For The Best" "Benn Can Beat This Or That Guy..." Blah Blah Blah only for them to announce he is fighting a washed up opponent who are Common Opponents of Top Guys but from YEARS AGO

Show us you're one of the best instead of him and Eddie trying to Talk people into believing he is on the Level of Boots, Vergil Ortiz, Stanionis and the rest of those Next ERA of Welterweights after Spence and Bud

[M312]

He's had 21 fights and is 25 years old.
3 years ago he was universally recognised as a bum.

Relax, he's doing well. The fact you are talking about him, considering where he was not so long ago proves how well he's doing.

[JakeTheBoxer]

He is 25 old pro with the record 21-0. And he fights the same level opposition as Ennis who is more experienced pro with 29 -0 record.

Benn is good. I mean 2 years ago people talked about him like he was a bum. Give him his time.

[Madison Boxing]

hes young and having fun, hearns doing a good job with his development