Conor Benn talks about the potential Manny Pacquiao match
Welterweight contender Conor Benn was seen at the weekend with multi-weight champion Manny Pacquiao and has now gone on the record to speak about a potential fight.
27-year-old Benn continues to hunt out a big opponent for his next contest. In the last two years, he has managed just two fights, both against low-key boxers and both out in the United States, because as of yet he still does not have a license to fight in the UK following two failed drug tests back in October 2022.
Plenty of issues have dragged on regarding those tests and right now he is waiting to hear the outcome of his latest appeal to the British Boxing Board of Control.
After a brief war of words with Gervonta Davis which looked like it might lead to a fight, Davis moved on to announce a fight with Frank Martin. Since then, Benn has been seen with Pacquiao out in Saudi Arabia. He hasn’t fought in three years since he lost to Cuban Yordenis Ugás but has often said he would like to fight again.
This past week, Benn spoke to Boxing Social about the legendary Fillipino.
“There is nothing to say at the present moment, but we are all out here, the teams are out here, the managers, coaches, trainers. We are all out here to get that [fight] done, so that’s it, that’s why I am here.
“That’s the plan [to get it signed], we want mega fights, the public want mega fights. It’s a fight that the public wants so I’ll give it to them.
“The only man that seems to be taking the fight [with me] is Pacquiao. Now, I’m not sure if that is because of my last two performances, at the heavier weight, not knocking them out, but it looks like it has done me a favour if he takes the fight.
“It’s surreal, I used to watch him so for me it really is idols to rivals. I looked him in the eyes and I was like ‘f**k me, that is Manny Pacquiao.’
“There is nothing that I can do or say, he is a GOAT.”
Should this fight happen, it would be in Saudi Arabia in June, and in the meantime, Benn has reacted to news that his old foe Chris Eubank Jr might be fighting Terrence Crawford.