{"id":898902,"date":"2026-04-16T22:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/898902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:29:24","slug":"conor-benns-performance-was-more-troubling-than-tyson-furys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/898902\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn\u2019s performance was more troubling than Tyson Fury\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">His longest-term rival, Anthony Joshua, is in a really good position. If he wanted he could fight Deontay Wilder or Fury next. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to rush to share his intentions with everyone \u2013 I expect him to let them chase him. Wilder, being a puncher, would represent a risk as a tune-up for Fury, but I can actually see Joshua fighting Wilder first, and then Fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His longest-term rival, Anthony Joshua, is in a really good position. If he wanted he could fight Deontay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,12898,4495,21610,82898,253405,79,8311,16,15],"class_list":["post-898902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxingnews","tag-boxingscene","tag-conor-benn","tag-paulie-malignaggi","tag-paulies-picks","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116416755056714023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}